Tag: Pulitzer Prize
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Monday Link Round Up: June 14, 2021
News and music to start your week! Tremendous congratulations go to Tania León who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work entitled Stride. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of their 19th Amendment Anniversary commissioning project, Stride was premiered at Lincoln Center just prior to the shutdown due to Covid 19. Read…
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Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins. Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a conversation…
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Monday Link Round Up: April 17, 2017
News to start your week! Congratulations to Du Yun for winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera Angel’s Bone! Read the story at NPR or NewMusicBox – which interviewed the composer about her work in 2014. Watch part of the interview below: It is also notable that for the first time in history all three…
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Julia Wolfe Wins Pulitzer
Congratulations to Julia Wolfe on winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Anthracite Fields. The piece is an oratorio inspired and based on the lives of Pennsylvania coal miners. It was commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. Their website is full of information about the piece, the compositional process – which included extensive research, as well as the…