The Pulitzer Prize in Music: 2000 to Today
Week 6 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | Hultquist 201A | Ages 14 and up
The Pulitzer Prize for Music has provided a means of charting American contemporary music, if not history itself. Thanks to the passage of time, we can sense the emergence of trends in the Prize's early and middle decades — in methods of composition, what types of people were awarded, and sound itself. Is it possible to define what it means to live in contemporary society by looking at the last two decades' worth of winners? A contemporary music specialist will guide students through several case studies and lead discussions of ways to understand and interpret recent winning compositions.
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Kyle Johnson
B.M. Belmont University; M.M. Longy School of Music of Bard College; D.M.A. University of Wisconsin–Madison. Twenty years of performance experience and eight years teaching experience at both the college and primary-instruction level. Current professional within higher education and the arts; podcast producer on literary and contemporary music subjects; involvement in concerts/lectures at the Library of Congress and other D.C.-area organizations.
