Douglas Moore is a name we've encountered before on Hearing the Pulitzers because he was instrumental in helping establish the Pulitzer Prizes. A decade later, he finally won his own Pulitzer for an opera based on Ole Edvart Rølvaag's novel Giants in the Earth. The opera follows the triumphs and tragedies of Norwegian settlers in the Dakota Territories of 1873, but there isn't even a recording today and the score is hard to find. Is its obscurity warranted?
If you'd like to learn more about Moore, we recommend:
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Episode 49 - 1991: Shulamit Ran, Symphony
Episode 48 - 1990: Mel Powell, Duplicates
Episode 47 - 1989: Roger Reynolds, Whispers Out of Time
Bonus: An Interview with William Bolcom
Episode 46 - 1988: William Bolcom, Twelve New Etudes
Bonus: An Interview with John Harbison
Episode 45 - 1987: John Harbison, The Flight Into Egypt
Episode 44 - 1986: George Perle, Wind Quintet IV
Episode 43 -1985: Stephen Albert, Symphony RiverRun
Episode 42 - 1984: Bernard Rands, Canti del Sole
Bonus: An Interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Episode 41 - 1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Symphony No.1 (Three Movements for Orchestra)
Episode 40 - 1982: Roger Sessions, Concerto for Orchestra
Episode 39 - 1981: No Winner
Episode 38 - 1980: David Del Tredici, In Memory of a Summer Day
Episode 37 - 1979: Joseph Schwantner, Aftertones of Infinity
Episode 36 - 1978: Michael Colgrass, Déjà Vu
Episode 35 - 1977: Richard Wernick, Visions of Terror and Wonder
Episode 34 - 1976: Ned Rorem, Air Music
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