Producer James Ginsburg Engineers Eric Arunas, Bill Maylone THE PULITZER PROJECT Patch Session Director Christopher Bell William Schuman (1910–1992) Leo Sowerby (1895–1968) Cover Grant Park Orchestra & Chorus performing in Chicago’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion A Free Song* (13:41) The Canticle of the Sun* (32:18) at night, photo by Norman Timonera 1943 Pulitzer 1946 Pulitzer Recorded in concert at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium 1 Part I. “Look down, fair moon” (7:26) bl O Most High… (4:35) Park, Chicago, June 25 and 26, 2010 Baritone solo: Ryan J. Cox bm Praised be my Lord God with all his Art Direction Adam Fleishman / www.adamfleishman.com 2 Part II. Song of the Banner (6:15) creatures… (2:48) PUBLISHERS bn Praised be my Lord for our sister the Schuman A Free Song © 1943 Associated Music Publishers, Inc. 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Dymit Eugene Pazin Duke Lee CLARINET Susan Nelson Klaus Georg Ying Chai Mathieu Page-Bouchard Charlene Zimmerman TUBA Maire O’Brien Christopher Lorimer Injoo Choi Ji Hyun Son Christian Schubert Fritz Kaenzig Lijana Pauletti Kevin McKelvie Jennifer Cappelli VIOLONCELLO CLARINET/BASS TIMPANI Angela Presutti Korbitz Stephen D. Noon Andrew Fuller Walter Haman CLARINET Michael Green Patricia Rhiew Clayton Parr Ellen Hildner Peter Szczepanek Gene Collerd PERCUSSION Cindy Senneke Martin Pazdioch Matthew Lehmann Margaret Daly E-FLAT CLARINET Eric Millstein Emily Sinclair Peder Reiff Rika Seko Larry Glazier Leslie Grimm Joel Cohen Angela Thomas Matthew W. Schlesinger Sang Shen Sherry Veal Peter J. Sovitzky Steven Houser BASSOON Richard Janicki Karen Sinclair Peter C. Voigt Eric Kutz Eric Hall Doug Waddell ALTO Bonnie Terry Eric West Eran Meir Jenni Groyon Rebekah Kirsten Askeland Jeanine Wynton Levin HARP Dale Newton Kayo Ishimaru-Fleisher Melissa Arning BASS Thomas Yang BASSOON/ Michael Boschert Linc Smelser CONTRABASSOON Beth Babbitt Krzysztof Zimowski PIANO Karen Brunssen Ryan J. Cox BASS Michael Davis Andrea Swan VIOLIN II Michael Geller Dominique M. Frigo Daniel Eifert Liba Shacht HORN Elizabeth Grizzell Matt Greenberg Brian Ferguson Jonathan Boen Laura Miller Andrew Anderson Deborah Guscott Thomas Hall Alexander Belavsky Stephanie Blaha CHORUS Nina Heebink John Holland Jennifer Downing Olsson Neil Kimel Karl Davies John Floeter SOPRANO Marjorie Johnston Jan Jarvis Teresa Fream Erin Lano Cassie Mara Makeeff Keven Keys Timothy Shaffer Steven Replogle Laura J. Amend Caroline Jones Christopher White Suna Avci Kristina Pappademos Eric Miranda Ann Lehmann Robert Johnson Amy Pickering Ryan O’Mealey FLUTE Alyssa Bennett Dylana Leung TRUMPET Stephanie Chamberlin Sarah Ponder Martin Lowen Poock John Macfarlane Mary Stolper David Gordon Suzanne A. Shields Benjamin D. Rivera Alyce Johnson Amy Conn Kjersti Nostbakken Billy R. Hunter, Jr. Amanda Crumley Susan Palmatier Steele Andrew Schultze Cristina Muresan FLUTE/PICCOLO Channing Philbrick Elizabeth Gottlieb Maia Surace Jeffrey W. Taylor Irene Radetzky Jennifer Debiec Lawson Michael Myers Katherine Gray Noon Joanna Wernette Scott Uddenberg Michael Shelton Margaret Quinnette Harden Debra Wilder Eric Wardell Ronald Watkins 6 7 THE PULITZER PROJECT publisher. Shrewd business deals and encouragement of public service, include Ives, Menotti, Piston, Barber, Notes by Dr. Richard E. Rodda tireless work brought him ownership public morals, American literature Carter, Crumb, Druckman, Rorem, Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary in of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878. and the advancement of education.” Del Tredici, Sessions, Bolcom, 1847 and well educated in Budapest, Through populist appeal, crusades The first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded Harbison, Zwilich, Schuller, Kernis, decided to become a soldier when against public and private corruption, in 1917 “to honor excellence in jour- Adams, Reich, Higdon, and many he was seventeen. Unable to get and ingenious promotions, the Post- nalism and the arts.” The original other of the most gifted American into the military of Austria, Britain, Dispatch flourished. Thanks to this award categories were for biography composers. The award took on or France due to poor eyesight success, Pulitzer was able to buy or autobiography, history, editorial additional significance when its scope and frail health, he encountered a the struggling New York World from writing, and reporting; fiction, drama, was broadened in 1997 to include jazz bounty recruiter for the United States financier Jay Gould in 1883. Pulitzer and public service were added a year and other mainstream music: Winton Army in Hamburg and enlisted as a used the same business formula in later. Categories have continued to Marsalis won in that year for his “jazz substitute for an American draftee New York that had worked in St. Louis change over the years, including the oratorio” Blood on the Fields; Ornette who had paid to escape service in the (one of his promotions raised funds addition of an award in 1943 “for a Coleman prevailed in 2007 for Sound Civil War. Legend has it that Pulitzer for a pedestal so that the Statue of distinguished musical composition Grammar; and George Gershwin, jumped overboard as his ship sailed Liberty could be erected in New York by an American that has had its first Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, into Boston harbor, swam to shore, harbor) and made the World into one performance or recording in the United and John Coltrane have received and collected the bounty for himself. of the nation’s leading newspapers States during the year.” The award’s special posthumous citations. Though Pulitzer eventually made his way to despite frequent controversies, fero- first recipient was William Schuman, not considered in the music category, St. Louis, where he impressed the cious competition, and his own for his A Free Song. Pulitzer Prizes for some of Broadway’s most memorable owner of a local German-language fragile health. Music in the following three years went shows have received the Pulitzer Prize newspaper during an impromptu Among Pulitzer’s bequests upon to Howard Hanson (Symphony No. 4), for Drama: Of Thee I Sing (George chess game at the city’s Mercantile his death, in 1911, was $2 million Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring) and Ira Gershwin), South Pacific Library in 1868 and got hired as a to establish a school of journalism and Leo Sowerby (The Canticle (Rodgers and Hammerstein), Fiorello! reporter. Pulitzer was a diligent and at Columbia University; one-fourth of the Sun). The Pulitzer has since (Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick), enterprising journalist, and within of that amount was to be “applied been recognized as concert music’s How To Succeed In Business Without four years became the paper’s to prizes or scholarships for the most prestigious award. Its recipients Really Trying (Frank Loesser and Abe 8 9 Burrows), A Chorus Line (Marvin dual responsibilities of Director of Foundation, Broadcast Music, Inc., impact of granite-like blocks of Hamlisch and Edward Kliban), Sunday Publications for G. Schirmer, Inc. and and the MacDowell Colony while dissonant harmony and sharp-edged In The Park With George (Stephen President of the Juilliard School of remaining active as a composer. counterpoint.” Sondheim), Rent (Jonathan Larson), Music in New York City. At Juilliard, Thanks to his strict and methodical The two contrasted passages from and (Tom Kitt and where he remained for eighteen work schedule, Schuman produced an Next to Normal Drum Taps set in A Free Song Brian Yorkey).