Episode 24 - 1966: Leslie Bassett, Variations for Orchestra
Hearing The Pulitzers
English - November 01, 2021 18:44 - 26 minutes - 30.5 MBMusic History Music Music Commentary Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 23 - 1965: No Prize (the Pulitzer Hat Trick)
Next Episode: Episode 25 - 1967: Leon Kirchner, Third String Quartet
In this episode, Dave and Andrew explore the first music winner in three years, Leslie Bassett. After two decades of honoring fairly conservative, European-derived pieces and two years of not honoring any pieces of music, what direction will the Pulitzer go in the late 1960s?
If you'd like more information about Leslie Bassett, we recommend:
Leslie Bassett's homepage
Ellen S. Johnson's Leslie Bassett: a Bio-Bibliography, published in 1994 by Greenwood Press
Stephanie Brunelli's dissertation, The use of the piano in the twentieth-century orchestra: A study of Pulitzer Prize compositions by Copland, Bassett, and Druckman