Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82
Briefly

Lewis Spratlan won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music for a chunk of an opera that he had completed in 1978 and that no one had ever staged.Then he waited another decade before someone actually put the full opera in front of an audience.It was awful, not hearing this piece, he told The New York Times in 2010, when his long wait was about to come to an end.
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