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The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first given in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year, and this was eventually converted into a prize: "For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States ...
The National Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center's artistic affiliate since 1987, has commissioned dozens of new works, among them Stephen Albert's RiverRun, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music; Morton Gould's Stringmusic, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner; William Bolcom's Sixth Symphony, Roger Reynolds's george WASHINGTON, and Michael ...
Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators.The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwriter, profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity as a result.
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy . Poetry: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur . Music: Meditations on Ecclesiastes by Norman Dello Joio , first performed at the Juilliard School of Music on April 20, 1956. Special Citation:
For biographies of the composers, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for Music winners. Pages in category "Pulitzer Prize for Music–winning works" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
Performance of Double Sextet in Russia. Double Sextet is a composition by Steve Reich scored for two sextets of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano. [1] It won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music, [2] the first for the composer. [3]
Journalist Drew Pearson claimed on an episode of The Mike Wallace Interview which aired in December 1957 [37] that "John F. Kennedy is the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer Prize for a book that was ghostwritten for him" and that his speechwriter Ted Sorensen was the book's actual author, though his claim later was retracted by ...
In 1964, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. [8] He was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" regarding the assassination. [9] In the 1960s, Smith was a frequent guest on television interview programs hosted by Jack Paar and Merv Griffin.