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  "The Pulitzer Prize in Music: 1943-2002"
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary and grew up amid affluence and aristocratic privilege.His decision to come to America in 1864 was a direct result of his determination to become a soldier.While on a visit to Germany, he had met U.S. recruiters and enlisted to fight as a Union soldier in the Civil War.
A controversial music Pulitzer was awarded in 1992 and spawned a tidal wave of responses and commentaries in newspapers throughout the country.
The 1996 prize was awarded to George Walker for his "Lilacs" (on a text from Walt Whitman for voice and orchestra) which was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
www.american.edu /heintze/Pul1.htm   (3152 words)

  
  Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pulitzer Prize for Music — for a distinguished musical contribution by an American that had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.
Pulitzer Prize for Photography, was divided in 1968 into Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and a spot news category, which became the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, became the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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 2000 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prizes for 2000 were announced on April 10, 2000.
They were the 84th presentation of the prizes.
The Washington Post, notably for the work of Katherine Boo that disclosed wretched neglect and abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_Pulitzer_Prize   (506 words)

  
 The Pulitzer Prizes -- Search the Pulitzer Archives
A Pulitzer Prize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a newspaper's staff.
The Pulitzer Prize Board generally selects the Pulitzer Prize Winners from the three nominated finalists in each category.
The Public Service prize is always awarded to a newspaper, not an individual, although an individual may be named in the citation.
www.pulitzer.org /Archive/archive.html   (433 words)

  
 Author's First Book Wins Pulitzer for Fiction; 3 Journalism Prizes to Washington Post
The journalism awards were dominated by The Washington Post, which won three prizes, including the public service award, and The Wall Street Journal, which won prizes for the "Potomac Watch" columns of Paul A. Gigot and for its coverage of United States military spending in the post-cold war era.
The prize for explanatory reporting was awarded to Eric Newhouse of The Great Falls Tribune in Montana for his examination of alcoholism and its consequences.
The Pulitzer Prize for drama was awarded to the playwright Donald Margulies, who teaches writing at Yale University, for "Dinner With Friends," about the vicissitudes of marriage in middle age.
partners.nytimes.com /library/arts/041100pulitzer-prizes.html   (769 words)

  
 Random House Publishing Group
Vladimir Nabokov), which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and Saint-Exupéry: A Biography, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize.
She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs.
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 Pulitzer Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Named after Hungarian newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, this award honors books which address the largest themes in life, the raw passion and tragedy of the human condition.
The prize for music went to "On the Transmigration of Souls" by John Adams.
A tribute to victims, survivors and heroes of September 11, "On the Transmigration of Souls" was premiered by the New York Philharmonic on September 19, 2002.
www.literature-awards.com /pulitzer_prize.htm   (410 words)

  
 David Kennedy wins Pulitzer Prize for history: 4/00
Most of the undergraduates who filed into the lecture hall Tuesday morning for "The United States in the 20th Century" knew their professor had won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for history the day before.
Kennedy served on the 1994 Pulitzer history jury whose nominations were rejected by the Pulitzer Board, and he also was a member of the 1984 Pulitzer jury that decided there were no titles worthy of nomination.
Carolyn Lougee, chair of the History Department, was in The Hague, monitoring the Pulitzer website on her laptop, when she got the news.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2000/april12/dkennedy-412-a.html   (1077 words)

  
 Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, literature, music and drama were established by the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, a 19th century journalist.
Administered by the Columbia School of Journalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded "for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." Each winner receives a gold medal as well as a cash award of $10,000 (raised in 2003 from $7500).
Many Pulitzer Prize Winners go on to receive other literary awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature.
almaz.com /pulitzer   (141 words)

  
 CNN.com - Entertainment - Chabon wins Pulitzer for 'Kavalier & Clay' - April 16, 2001
It is the first Pulitzer for Chabon, whose book brings to life World War II America and the golden age of comic books.
His prize marked the first time that the second volume of a previous Pulitzer winner also won the award.
The Pulitzer for drama went to David Auburn for his play "Proof," a family drama about a young woman haunted by the mental collapse of her father.
edition.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/04/16/pulitzer.prize   (590 words)

  
 The 2000 Pulitzer Prizes
Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her first book, "Interpreter of Maladies." The journalism awards were dominated by The Washington Post, which won three prizes, and The Wall Street Journal, which won two prizes.
Winning the prize was bittersweet for the staff, many of whom lived in Littleton, said Frank Scandale, The Post's assistant managing editor for news, who supervised the Columbine coverage.
Previous criticism prizes have included photography reviews, but this was the first year that the Pulitzer board bestowed a prize solely for writing about that art.
partners.nytimes.com /library/arts/041100pulitzer-index.html   (2596 words)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar - Current Issue
Donald Margulies, an award-winning playwright and Yale faculty member, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama this week for "Dinner with Friends," a play about how a married couple's divorce affects their friends.
Lewis Spratlan, who won the prize in music for "Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version," received his B.A. from Yale College in 1962 and his M.M. from the Yale School of Music in 1965.
His Pulitzer is only the most recent in a series of awards and honors that includes two Obies, a Dramatist Guild Hull-Warner Award and a Lucille Lortel Award.
www.yale.edu /opa/v28.n28/story1.html   (891 words)

  
 Severin's phony Pulitzer - The Boston Globe
From 2000 to 2002, Columbia University was the cosponsor for the Online Journalism Awards, awards in no way related to the Pulitzers.
It is true that in 2000, the first year for which those awards were given, MSNBC.com won an Online Journalism Award for general excellence ''in collaboration," and Severin was writing columns for the site at the time.
Severin, however, said that he had been told by Joan Connell, then executive producer for opinions at the site, that the prize he alluded to was for a small group of writers that included him.
www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/09/16/severins_phony_pulitzer   (616 words)

  
 History News Network
To try and dodge this issue by suggesting that his prize was given for what he wrote before the Great Famine is a sophistry, for Duranty was already serving Soviet interests by 1931, and would continue doing so for many years thereafter.
But unless his prize was connected to his specific journalistic activities on the Great Famine and was obtained by fraud and deception, there is no basis of withdrawing the prize.
His Prize-winning articles in 1931 were more of the same with the intent to contradict anti-Sioviet reports and to promote recogniztion of the Soviet Union by the U.S. Duranty is seen as playing a large role in persuading FDR to recognize the USSR.
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 Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Somewhere between Calcutta and Boston, a slip of paper containing the future identity of Ashoke and Ashima Gangulis' newborn son is lost.
Lahiri, who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Interpreter of Maladies," a collection of elegantly understated short stories about Bengali American immigrants, writes again of the tumult and turmoil of relocation in "The Namesake," this time exploring the extraordinary power of names in defining identity.
www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /101003/20031010_gogolboy.html   (744 words)

  
 Denver dailies win Pulitzer Prizes
Denver's two daily newspapers won journalism's highest honor Monday, each garnering a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the tragedy at Columbine High School.
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded each year for distinguished achievement in journalism, literature, drama and music.
The prizes are awarded each April by Columbia University on the recommendation of the 19-member Pulitzer Prize Board.
denver.rockymountainnews.com /shooting/0411priz3.shtml   (636 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize-Drama-April 13,2000
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The Pulitzer for drama this year went to Donald Margulies for his play "Dinner with Friends." It's a rueful comedy about love, commitment, and friendship in the age of divorce.
During all of this Pulitzer mayhem, I'm also carving out the second half of a two-part mini- series, based on "A Man in Full," which is a considerable challenge.
You know, I don't think that I ever truly aspired to winning a Pulitzer Prize, but when I was a finalist in 1992, I think it was, for my play "Sight Unseen," it suddenly became something that was accessible to me in ways that I never really gave it much thought about before.
www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/jan-june00/margulies_4-13.html   (1488 words)

  
 INSIDE Chico State
Erwin's April 5 presentation was part of a week-long Celebration of Excellence by CSU, Chico's Department of Journalism in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Orion, the university's student-run newspaper.
Erwin said she realizes, however, that she would not have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize if she had declined the job, because at a larger paper her story idea would have been passed to a more seasoned journalist.
Erwin earned the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Journalism in 1985 -- an honor almost unheard of for a first-year journalist -- for her work on a series of stories that questioned the contention that thousands of children are abducted by strangers each year.
www.csuchico.edu /pub/inside/archive/00_04_20/3.griego.html   (635 words)

  
 Lewis Spratlan
Lewis Spratlan, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music for his opera LIFE IS A DREAM (Act II, concert version), is a widely performed and much honored composer.
Often praised for his music's high dramatic impact and brilliant scoring, Spratlan is the recipient of grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among many.
Spratlan's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera LIFE IS A DREAM (Act II, concert version) was premiered on January 28 and 30, 2000, in Amherst and Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble under the baton of J. David Jackson.
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 Professor David Kennedy wins Pulitzer Prize for history: 4/00
David Kennedy, the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for history on Monday, April 10, for his book Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.
Kennedy was nominated for the 1981 Pulitzer for history for Over Here: The First World War and American Society.
He also served on the 1984 Pulitzer history jury that decided there were no titles worthy of nomination.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/00/dkennedy412.html   (496 words)

  
 BU Alumni Web :: Bostonia :: Summer 2000
Edward Seaton, chairman of the prize board, arrives at the podium.
In the years prior to 1948, when the prize recognized only “the novel,” a handful of writers under thirty-two received it.
George Rupp, president of Columbia University, presents Jhumpa Lahiri with the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction at a ceremony in New York.
www.bu.edu /alumni/bostonia/2000/summer/fiction/index.html   (1316 words)

  
 C.K. Williams, Corrington Award 2001
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet C. Williams to Receive Corrington Award for Literary Excellence Oct.
SHREVEPORT, LA -- The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. Williams will receive the 12th annual John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence and read from his work at Centenary College on Thursday, Oct. 25.
In addition to the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Repair, Williams has received the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Flesh and Blood and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974.
www.centenary.edu /news/2001/October/corr-01.html   (443 words)

  
 RockyMountainNews.com
In April 2003, the News photography department was awarded its second Pulitzer Prize in the past four years, for coverage during the summer of 2002 of the worst wildfires in the state's history.
This followed a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for coverage of the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999.
This photo of a slurry bomber just after it dropped its load on a wildfire was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo coverage of Colorado's worst fire season ever during the summer of 2002.
denver.rockymountainnews.com /aboutus/awards.shtml   (637 words)

  
 Two UAW members win Pulitzers - June 2000 Solidarity
Two UAW members have won Pulitizer Prizes, the nation’s most prestigious awards for writing.
Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her collection of short stories, "Interpreter of Maladies."
A member of the New York City chapter of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, she writes stories from her experience of having lived in vastly different cultures.
www.uaw.org /solidarity/00/0600/front02.html   (198 words)

  
 BMI.com | BMI Composer Lewis Spratlan Wins Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to BMI classical composer Lewis Spratlan, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
BMI is proud to represent the catalogs of 27 winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Vocalise with Duck for soprano and chamber ensemble was commissioned by the New York Ensemble Sequitur and was premiered at The Knitting Factory in New York on January 10 and 12, 1999.
www.bmi.com /news/entry/232848   (522 words)

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