Tag: Pulitzer Prize
LYNN NOTTAGE TELLS A GHOST STORY IN “THIS HOUSE”
"I think that moving into opera is sort of reconciling my love for musical storytelling and my desire to stretch and grow as an artist and to continue to challenge myself in new ways."
Top 12 of 2024: MICHAEL R. JACKSON
Jackson won Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for his musical
Michael R. Jackson Is Not Usher in “A Strange Loop”
"As much as you want to make it be about me, there's just too many ways in which it isn't."
Composer Jennifer Higdon Lives in the Air of Ideas
"I was thinking about the breathing thing. This is a much calmer sort of experience. It's also a challenge for me because normally I write a lot of fast notes. "
Composer Ted Hearne Seeks to Understand His Place
"I am really interested in living in a way that helps other people be better. But I have to help myself be better. Composing is just the whole apparatus for that."
Composer Ellen Reid: Life Post-Pulitzer and Post-Pandemic
"Sitting with the unknown brought up some new things I'm interested in and things that I'm not interested anymore in in a very clear way that it might have just taken a lot more time to find had we not had that experience."
What Does Composer Caroline Shaw Want to Hear at the Bowl...
"I think you can develop a personal practice that celebrates one's own imagination and I think that's why I write music."