Jump to content

Ornette wins the Pulitzer


Recommended Posts

  • Replies 85
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

I guess after reading the list of past "winners" of the Nobel Prize for music, I'm a bit confused. Special Citations for legends and spotty winners whom I've never heard of. Lots of winners for Music Criticism. Guess it's a more 'nobel' cause to criticize than create. :D Anyway, guess someone woke the judges up and told them a revolution happened 50 years ago with a guy named Ornette Coleman. :g

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Lots of winners for Music Criticism. Guess it's a more 'nobel' cause to criticize than create. :D

The Pulitzer is basically a journalism prize that grew into a literary prize and now music. Classical composers were recognized first and eventually jazz.

WOW, is this better than a grammy...... :w

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Lots of winners for Music Criticism. Guess it's a more 'nobel' cause to criticize than create. :D

The Pulitzer is basically a journalism prize that grew into a literary prize and now music. Classical composers were recognized first and eventually jazz.

WOW, is this better than a grammy...... :w

All depends on your grammy. :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thanks, Chuck. Didn't know they history of it. Hopefully, more living jazz artists will receive this in the future.

Ellington was famously (infamously, I should say) denied one in 1965--hence the "no award" citation you'll find in the music category for that year.

Edited by ghost of miles
Link to comment
Share on other sites

A side aspect of this: The Pulitzer music award requires that a recording be submitted (and this is true of at least one other such major music award, too -- the Pulitzer is a prize for a specific work, not a career award (supposedly), and a score is not enough, probably because in recent years, not every member of the music juries is a score reader. In any case, as this article explains:

http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=50tp01

it's difficult to impossible, for contractual/union reasons, for a composer whose work is premiered by an American symphony orchestra to get even a so-called "archival" recording of his or her piece.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

A side aspect of this: The Pulitzer music award requires that a recording be submitted (and this is true of at least one other such major music award, too -- the Pulitzer is a prize for a specific work, not a career award (supposedly), and a score is not enough, probably because in recent years, not every member of the music juries is a score reader. In any case, as this article explains:

http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=50tp01

it's difficult to impossible, for contractual/union reasons, for a composer whose work is premiered by an American symphony orchestra to get even a so-called "archival" recording of his or her piece.

screw the premiere, release a CD.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

×
×
  • Create New...