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David Lang Wins Pulitzer!
April 7, 2008
Composer David Lang has been awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his work The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fable “The Little Match Girl” and commissioned by and premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2007. Past winners of this prestigious award include Ornette Coleman, John Adams, Wynton Marsalis, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives and Gian Carlo Menotti.
Click here for an excellent NPR piece about Lang, including a clip from "The Little Match Girl Passion."