#pulitzer-prize

#pulitzer-prize

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.

For 34 years, Leo Schofield Jr. has been imprisoned in Florida for the murder of his wife, Michelle Schofield.He has maintained his innocence and has been denied parole three times, even after another man convicted of murder in a separate case admitted to the killing.Supporters and criminal justice advocates who have rallied around Mr. Schofield hoped Wednesday would be the day he finally walked free after his latest parole hearing.

Common would be the first to admit that he has an EGO that is, an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and an Oscar making him just a Tony Award shy from securing the coveted EGOT, the achievement of winning all four major entertainment awards.Eighteen other people have done so, and the Frozen songwriter Robert Lopez is the only person to do it twice.

I miss the critics.The theater, music, movie, fashion, book, dance and architectural critics who once populated the nation's media have been systematically eliminated at our beleaguered newspapers.As print circulation and advertising have declined, journalism's new business model has prized clicks over culture.

Rabbi Harold Kushner, a practical public theologian whose best-selling books assured readers that bad things happen to good people because God is endowed with unlimited love and justice but exercises only finite power to prevent evil, died on Thursday in Canton, Mass.He was 88.His death, in hospice care, was confirmed by his daughter, Ariel Kushner Haber.

It's up there as one of my all-time favorites, if not my all-time favorite photo: Almost-five-year-old you wore your pink bike helmet cocked on your head.Your little braids, accented with sky-blue bobbles, fell all around your face.You were seated on your pink-and-purple bikeyeah, we were heavy with the pink themein the park around the corner from your mom's apartment, gripping your handlebars.

When Julie Kent and Victor Barbee's take on Tchaikovsky's ballet debuted in 2019, reviews were rapturous and tickets were scarce.Now comes another chance to see it-just as Kent has headed out the door for a new gig in Houston.George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum | May 6 - November 18

Anyone who's found themselves curious about why, say, the Lincoln Memorial looks so similar to the Parthenon should head to this exhibit, which explores how ancient Greek and Roman styles influenced DC's architecture.

To those readers who prize "relatability," Catherine Lacey's latest novel may as well come wrapped in a barbed wire book jacket.There is almost nothing about Biography of X, as this novel is called, that welcomes a reader in least of all, its enigmatic central character, a fierce female artist who died in 1996 and who called herself "X," as well as a slew of other names.

In his poem "After Avery R. Young," the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown writes, "The blk mind / Is a continuous mind."These lines emerge for me as a guiding principle-as a mantra, even-when I consider the work of Black poetry in America, which insists upon the centrality of Black lives to the human story, and offers the terms of memory, music, conscience, and imagination that serve to counteract the many erasures and distortions riddling the prevailing narrative of Black life in this country.

WASHINGTON Call it Celebrity Week at the White House.For the second day in a row, President Biden on Tuesday hosted a pack of famous figures from the arts and basked in the glow of the glamorous.A day after meeting with cast members from the hit show Ted Lasso, Mr. Biden bestowed National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to a passel of acclaimed actors, musicians and writers including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bruce Springsteen, Gladys Knight, Amy Tan and Colson Whitehead.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday will award the 2021 National Humanities Medals and the National Medal of Arts at a ceremony for the first time since taking office, according to the White House.The National Medal of the Arts is the highest American award given to artists, art patrons, and groups that have advanced arts in the United States.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, March 13-19.Details and times are subject to change.Paul Newman, left, and Robert Redford in The Sting.Credit...Universal Pictures THE STING (1973) 8 p.m. on TCM.

Dan Snyder is reportedly big mad at the Washington Post for its ongoing reporting on the Washington Commanders' many-splendored scandals-so much so that he is allegedly stiff-arming potential team buyer and Post owner Jeff Bezos.When it comes to shooting the messenger, however, the embattled Commanders owner might want to save some of his ire for ESPN.