In The First Person: June 2000

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Beyond the Pulitzer Prize

Amherst MA, April 21, 2000
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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

Filmed by Nathan Michel
Interview transcribed by Karyn Joaquino

Winning the Pulitzer
Operatic Collaboration
Getting an Opera Performed
Teaching and Composing
Music and Geography
Musical Heroes from Ives to Mingus
Uptown/Downtown
Other Pulitzer Winners
An Identity as a Composer

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Lewis Spratlan

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