Pulitzer Prize for a highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects. (New Amsterdam Records)"[S]ince I'm a violinist, I was drawn to those Baroque forms," Shaw told. "I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms," she said.
She hopes the publicity generated by the win will attract a dance component for the "Partita" series.
The prestigious $10,000 prize certainly means the composer will receive "plenty of attention," observed the Associated Press, especially with the Pulitzer committee praising her "highly polished and inventive a cappella work uniquely embracing speech, whispers, sighs, murmurs, wordless melodies and novel vocal effects."
The win also singles out up-and-coming composer Shaw as the youngest to receive the prize in over a half-century.
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