Lewis Spratlan: Beyond the Pulitzer Prize

Lewis Spratlan

A conversation with composer Lewis Spratlan, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Music with:

James Maraniss
  Librettist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning music composition
Harold Meltzer
  Composer and director of Sequitur, former student of Spratlan
Frank J. Oteri
  Composer and editor of NewMusicBox

Amherst, MA—April 21, 2000
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Filmed by Nathan Michel
Interview transcribed by Karyn Joaquino

1. Winning the Pulitzer
2. Operatic Collaboration
3. Getting an Opera Performed
4. Teaching and Composing
5. Music and Geography
6. Musical Heroes from Ives to Mingus
7. Uptown/Downtown
8. Other Pulitzer Winners
9. An Identity as a Composer

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