The New York Times – Music:
The composer and instrumentalist was honored for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” an unconventional concerto written for saxophone and orchestra.
Category: Pulitzer Prizes
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David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86
The New York Times – Music:
A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who liked to redefine himself, he was originally known as an experimentalist but was later identified with a lush style that came to be called the New Romanticism.
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Pulitzer Prizes Expand Eligibility to Noncitizens
The New York Times – Music:
The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.
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Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99
The New York Times – Music:
His collaborations with the composer Jerry Bock also included “Fiorello!” — which, like “Fiddler,” was a Tony winner — and “She Loves Me.”
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Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels Win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
The New York Times – Music:
Giddens said that the success of their opera “Omar” proves that “nobody has the lock on being a composer.”
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Lewis Spratlan, 82, Dies; Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer
The New York Times – Music:
His opera sat unproduced for decades. Then a piece of it garnered one of the field’s top prizes. Then it sat some more.
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Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99
The New York Times – Music:
A Pulitzer Prize winner, he wrote many orchestral works but was most celebrated for his vocal pieces. He was also well known for writing candidly about his life.
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Geraldine Brooks, on Martha’s Vineyard
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist has a new book, “Horse,” and a very old house, where she spent the pandemic with family and horses.
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The Pulitzer Prize Winner That Emerged Out of a Time of Quietness
The New York Times – Music:
Raven Chacon’s “Voiceless Mass,” a work for ensemble and pipe organ that “evokes the weight of history in a church setting,” won the prize for music.