{"id":648,"date":"2013-04-18T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/?p=648"},"modified":"2013-04-18T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:39:16","slug":"hear-the-2013-pulitzer-prize-for-music-on-naxos-music-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/hear-the-2013-pulitzer-prize-for-music-on-naxos-music-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for music on Naxos Music Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every April, the Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in American journalism and arts are announced. The music award is given &#8220;[f]or distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the year.&#8221; This year&#8217;s winner is multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineshaw.com\/o\/\">Caroline Shaw<\/a>, who at age 30 is the youngest recipient in the award&#8217;s history. Her work,\u00a0<em>Partita for 8 Voices<\/em>, was developed in collaboration with the new music ensemble <a href=\"http:\/\/peristylium.org\/roomfulofteeth\/\">Roomful of Teeth<\/a> (which includes recent McGill graduate Esteli Gomez) and incorporates a broad range of vocal styles from Inuit and Tuvan throat singing to pop vocals and traditional American hymn singing. You can find the piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineshaw.com\/o\/hear\/partita\/\">Shaw&#8217;s site<\/a> (both recording and score excerpts). Listen to the entire Roomful of Teeth recording on <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/mcgill.naxosmusiclibrary.com\/catalogue\/item.asp?cid=NWAM041\">Naxos Music Library<\/a>. The first live performance (2009) of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oTnwdQbN3vY\">Movement IV: Passacaglia<\/a> is captured on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every April, the Pulitzer Prizes for excellence in American journalism and arts are announced. The music award is given &#8220;[f]or distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its first performance or recording in the United States during the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/hear-the-2013-pulitzer-prize-for-music-on-naxos-music-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,70],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-naxos-music-library","tag-pulitzer-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/music-flipside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}