Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize-Music-April 18,2000 ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH The winner in music this year is lewis spratlan for the concertversion of act two of his opera, Life is a Dream. The opera is based on http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june00/spratlan_4-18.html
Extractions: Now, we continue our conversations with this year's winners of the Pulitzer prizes in the arts, and once again to Elizabeth Farnsworth. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The winner in music this year is Lewis Spratlan for the concert version of act two of his opera, "Life is a Dream." The opera is based on Pedro Calderon de la Barca 17th century play, "La Vida Es Sueño," a masterpiece of Spanish literature. Lewis Spratlan's music has been widely performed in the United States and around the world. A CD of his work, "Night Music," was released in 1993. He is professor of music at Amherst College. Thank you for being with us, and congratulations. LEWIS SPRATLAN, Pulitzer Prize, Music: Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: You wrote this opera a long time ago in the mid 1970's, right? And it was only recently performed. What happened? LEWIS SPRATLAN: Yeah, it's a complex story. I'll try to make it brief. In 1975, I was asked by the New Haven Opera Theater to write an opera, and it was suggested as a basis for a libretto that I have a look at "La Vida es Sueño" of Calderon. I was caught up immediately, decided that was the way to go, and got to work, and was halfway through the composition of the third act and the company folded. And there I was with an opera and nobody to put it on. And I immediately got to work together with my publisher, attempting to get it performed, but was not successful. And the piece had been sitting on the shelf for 22 years.
Teachers: NewsHour Arts And Entertainment Conversation with lewis spratlan The winner of this year's Pulitzer prize for music,lewis spratlan, talks about his work Life Is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/arts_literature/arts_literature_newsh
Index To Volume XXVI (2000) Heintze, James R., a. lewis spratlan Wins 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Music, 2/369. Spell, Lota May, s, 116. spratlan, lewis, s, 2/369. http://www.american-music.org/publications/bullarchive/indexvol26.html
Index To Volume XXIII (1997) The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya (Symonette and Kowalke, e; Loranger, r)386 spratlan, lewis, a Night Music, rec (Everett, r) 12627 The Sylviad; Or http://www.american-music.org/publications/bullarchive/Ind23241.htm
Extractions: The Bulletin Board, "Performances of American Music" 1:16, (Continued as separate column, Performances of Note") 2:54, 3:76-77, 75; "Events in American Music" 1:16-17; "Grant, Prize, and Publication Opportunities" 1:20; "News of Other Societies" 1:20-21; "Meetings and Conferences" 1:21. (Note: Beginning in no. 2, all entries were brought together under the general heading, "The Bulletin Board," on pp. 2:53-54, 3:78-79.
MusicMoz - Composition: Composers: S Sowerby, Leo (6); Spohr, Louis (6); spratlan, lewis (3); Stamitz, Anton http://musicmoz.org/Composition/Composers/S/
2001-2002 Season Of Time and the Seasons Friday, October 5, 2001, 8 pm Tsai PerformanceCenter, Boston. lewis spratlan, Of Time and the Seasons (world premiere). http://www.bmv.org/past/2001-02 Season/season2001-02.htm
Extractions: Friday, October 5, 2001, 8 p.m. Tsai Performance Center , Boston Lewis Spratlan Of Time and the Seasons (world premiere) Lucy Shelton , soprano Magnus Lindberg Quintetto dell'estate (Boston premiere) Kaija Saariaho 6 Japanese Gardens (Boston premiere) Elliott Carter Tempo e tempi Lucy Shelton, soprano Lucy
Composers Presented By The TBCF Siegmeister, Elie Silvers, Fon Simpson, Andrew Siskind, Paul Skalkottas, Nikos Smith,LaDonna Smith, Robert T. Smolenski, Scott spratlan, lewis Steinke, Greg http://www.spjc.edu/spg/music/composers_presented.htm
Amherst College : News & Events : Notes : September 28, 2001 For more information contact the Russian Department at ext. 2350. Boston MusicaViva To Premiere lewis spratlans Of Time and the Seasons. http://www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/notes/notesSeptember_28_2001.html
Extractions: How to Succeed in Science, a panel discussion with professors from economics, math and all science departments, will take place on Thurs., Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in 220 Merrill. Come ask professors questions you may have about the sciences at Amherst, such as how to study effectively for exams, how to take notes, etc. The discussion is sponsored by the Quantitative Skills Center and Women in Science. Refreshments will be provided by Sugar Jones. The first bi-semester gathering will be held on Sun., Sept. 30, at 1 p.m. in Chapin Chapel. The Rev. Dr. William Staton, district superintendent of the Harry Hoosier District of the United Methodist Church in the Philadelphia region, will be the preacher. All are invited to attend. The Political Science Department and the Five College Program on Peace and World Security Studies announces a lecture series on Latin America in the World Stage during the 2001-02 academic year.
Extractions: AMHERST, Mass. The contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva will perform the premiere of the song cycle Of Time and the Seasons, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lewis Spratlan, the Peter E. Pouncey Professor of Music at Amherst College, on Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College. Soprano Lucy Shelton will be the featured performer. The program will also include Quintetto dellestate by Magnus Lindberg, 6 Japanese Gardens by Kaija Saariaho and Tempo e tempi by Elliott Carter. The performance, made possible by the Adams Fund for Music, is free and open to the public. Spratlan received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act Two, Concert Version. Spratlan has taught at Amherst College since 1970, when he founded and conducted the Amherst-Mount Holyoke Orchestra. He was educated at Yale University and the Yale School of Music. His compositions have won numerous awards and prizes. His recordings include Two Pieces for Orchestra , available on Opus One Records, and Night Music on Gasparo.
20th Century - Page 2 Of 2 Shostakovich, Dmitri (19061975) Twentieth century Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich.spratlan, lewis Pulitzer Prize winning composer, lewis spratlan. http://classicalmusic.miningco.com/cs/20thcentury/index_2.htm
The Opera Is A Dream? -- Music Review By Lou Wigdor Sixtyone-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning composer lewis spratlan has perfecthearing, but has gained deeper empathy with Beethovens predicament. http://www.filbert.com/PVFS/LousReviews/0204.htm
Extractions: What greater dread for a composer than never to hear his music performed? That was Beethovens fate from age fifty, when he became stone deaf. The late string quartets, the final piano sonatas, the ninth symphony, and the heaven-storming Missa Solemnis-Beethoven heard them all in his head but never in the sensate world. Sixty-one-year-old Pulitzer Prize winning composer Lewis Spratlan has perfect hearing, but has gained deeper empathy with Beethovens predicament. In April of 2000, Spratlan, who has been on the music faculty of Amherst College since 1970, received the Pulitzer Prize in music for a concert version of the second act of his three-act opera, Life Is a Dream . Winning the Pulitzer was exhilarating; so was hearing and seeing the operas second act performed for the first time in its then twenty-two year existence. Perhaps one day, Ill get to hear the first and third acts as well, muses Spratlan, who will hear the operas Pulitzer-winning segment for only the third time, this May 7 th in its unstaged New York debut with the New York City Operas Showcase of American Composers series.
PVFS Happenings -- April 2002 Lou's Reviews lewis spratlan's Pulitzerwinning Life is a Dream; Calendar. Lou'sReviews lewis spratlan's Pulitzer-winning Life Is a Dream. http://www.filbert.com/pvfs/news/0204.htm
Extractions: Pioneer Valley Folklore Society Happenings April 2002 Contents Please come share in an evening of music and stories at the April P ioneer Valley Folklore Society Friday, April 12 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Black Sheep Café , 79 Main St., Amherst, Mass. Appearing as guest will be Boston-area singer and songwriter, Terry Kitchen A lyrical storyteller as much as a folksinger, Kitchen's compositions have won a number of songwriting awards, including top prizes at the 2000 Mid-Atlantic Song Contest and the 2000 USA Songwriting Competition. He has recorded six solo albums and frequently appears in coffeehouses and folk festivals throughout the Northeast. Remarks "Victory Review" writer Richard Middleton, "Terry Kitchens songs are portraits of ordinary people and emotions, captured with extraordinary compassion, honesty and humor. A talented writer." The warm-up theme this month is Food http://www.filbert.com/pvfs
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Penn State Professor Of Music A professor at Penn State named lewis spratlan left to teach at AmherstCollege. Meanwhile, a professor at Amherst decided to leave http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2002/11/11-14-02tdc/11-14-02darts-04.asp
Five Colleges: The Consortium: Update timely in the context of world events the premier of Dona Nobis Pacem, a commissionedpiece by the distinguished composer lewis spratlan subtitled an http://www.fivecolleges.edu/upchoral.html
Extractions: Back to Update menu A Veritable Ocean of Voice The rafters of John M. Greene Hall on the Smith College campus will ring once again as they do every other year when the combined choirs of the Five Colleges come together for a festive and reflective evening of song on Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. This year’s Five College Choral Festival features a wide variety of selections from many cultures and periods as well as two works that are especially timely in the context of world events: the premier of Dona Nobis Pacem, a commissioned piece by the distinguished composer Lewis Spratlan subtitled "an entreaty for peace in the Middle East," and a movement from Tomas Luis de Victoria’s 1605 Requiem Mass, which reprises a benefit and memorial concert for the victims of September 11, performed last October by the Five College Early Music Collegium. The Five College Choral Festival is free and open to the public. Due to the popularity of this event, and the limited seating in the hall, early arrival is recommended.
Classroom Music Instruction At Five Colleges MHC David Schneider Twentieth Century, Tonal Analysis, AC Ruth Solie IntroductoryTheory, SC lewis spratlan Twentieth Century, Tonal Analysis, AC Karen Tarlow http://www.fivecolleges.edu/music/instclas.html
Music Composers Translate this page Sorensen, Bent. Sousa, John Philip. Sowerby, Leo. Spohr, Louis. spratlan,lewis. Stäbler, Gerhard. Stamitz, Anton. Stamitz, Carl. Stamitz, Johann. http://www.artistactoractress.com/composers/
Extractions: September 15, 2000. Is American Opera on the comeback? Contemporary American opera sounds like an oxymoron more than a musical category nowadays. John Harbison 's opera the Great Gatsby was a short-lived event last year. This season, you won't hear one living composer or an American at the MET , with a program that's still heavy with Puccini, Mozart and Wagner. And still, there's a diversity of indomitable composers out there testing themselves in the marriage of words, music and drama. New work has some familiar titles: The Cabaret performer William Bolcom is trying his hand at an operatic production of Arthur Miller's " A View from the Bridge "; the conductor and pop pianist Andre Previn is writing music for " A Streetcar Named Desire "; and the composer Lewis Spratlan won a Pulitzer this year for " Life is a Dream ," a fantasy opera he's never been able to get into full production till now. Is this a new beginning for American opera? Or is the fat lady getting ready to sing.
