John Luther Adams’s orchestral work Become Ocean, premiered on June 20, 2013 by the Seattle Symphony, has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Evoking a tidal surge, melting polar ice, and rising sea levels, the piece will be performed again by the Seattle Symphony at this year’s Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall in May, led by Music Director Ludovic Morlot. The two other candidates for this year’s Pulitzer in music were John Adams’s oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the staged version of which was premiered in March 2013 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and Christopher Cerrone’s opera Invisible Cities, staged in October 2013 by The Industry and L.A. Dance Project in Union Station, Los Angeles. Information on 2014 Pulitzer Prizes in all categories is available at www.pulitzer.org/. The Pulitzer 2014 nominating jury for music was chaired by Ara Guzelimian, provost and dean of the Juilliard School; also serving on the jury were Justin Davidson, New York magazine’s classical music and architecture critic; pianist/composer Jason Moran; composer/ musician Caroline Shaw; and composer Julia Wolfe, co-founder of Bang on a Can in New York City.
Posted April 15, 2014
