Comments on Classical Pontifications with Professor Heebie McJeebie: Poolitzer

As for awarding th PP to a jazz musician, when the...

2007-06-03T13:19:00.000-04:00

As for awarding th PP to a jazz musician, when they gave it to Wynton Marsalis for "Blood on the Sands" (have you heard it? OMG!! Is somebody kidding someone?) the horse was out of the barn. A posthumous award to Charlie Parker? I'm all for it. He was_authentic_, as we like to say today.

As for prestige for receiving the award, David Del Tredici left Boston University immediately, and headed for the Big Apple.

Indeed, they might as well have given to Pulitzer ...

2007-05-04T11:29:00.000-04:00

Indeed, they might as well have given to Pulitzer Prize to Charlie Parker!

I'm not familiar with Augusta Read Thomas's music, but I think she was very smart to marry an established male composer in order to get her career going.

I am outraged that you do not share my outrage at ...

2007-05-04T11:18:00.000-04:00

I am outraged that you do not share my outrage at the outrageous awarding of the Pulitzer Prize to boogie-woogie "composer" Ornette Coleman. A jazz musician does not write music, like proper composers; he or she merely makes it up as he or she goes along. Like a bird! Would you support giving the Pulitzer Prize to a bird??

Since the only other finalist was, I understand, the accompaniment to some sort of puppet show, this year's Pulitzer obviously should have been awarded to Augusta Read Thomas, whose 'Hentai Tentacle' was far and away the best new composition of the year.

And as for “honor”... well, it remains to be seen ...

2007-05-03T14:29:00.000-04:00

And as for “honor”... well, it remains to be seen if receiving the award gets you prestige, or if being prestigious gets you the award.

It does?