{"id":452,"date":"2010-04-12T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=452"},"modified":"2010-04-12T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:58:37","slug":"whats_with_all_these_awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/04\/whats_with_all_these_awards\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s with all these awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to composer Jennifer Higdon, whose <i>Violin Concerto <\/i>for Hilary just won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/citation\/2010-Music\">Pulitzer Prize for Music<\/a>! Many additional congratulations to my client Julia Wolfe, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/23\/arts\/music\/23wolfe.html\"><i>Steel Hammer<\/i><\/a> was a Pulitzer finalist. Sadly, <i>Life&#8217;s a Pitch<\/i> did not win for<b> Explanatory Reporting<\/b> like I had hoped, so I&#8217;ll just have to be satisfied by loose affiliation with Jennifer and Julia&#8217;s wins this year. <\/p>\n<p>Here are Hilary and Jennifer discussing the concerto just after the premiere in Indianapolis last year:<\/p>\n<p> <object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YRHR6NyVRAA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YRHR6NyVRAA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YRHR6NyVRAA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><br \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AWGhLPEblR4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AWGhLPEblR4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wI8AsoVyOFc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wI8AsoVyOFc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">As always, updates from the road and composer interviews for Sequenza21 can be found on Hilary&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hilaryhahnvideos\">YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to composer Jennifer Higdon, whose Violin Concerto for Hilary just won the Pulitzer Prize for Music! Many additional congratulations to my client Julia Wolfe, whose Steel Hammer was a Pulitzer finalist. Sadly, Life&#8217;s a Pitch did not win for Explanatory Reporting like I had hoped, so I&#8217;ll just have to be satisfied by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}