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Kevin Puts

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts is still inspired by the age-old symphonic form.
    A Pulitzer Winner Asks: Why Write Symphonies?
    Kevin Puts
    Kevin Puts won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night. He's written concertos and lots of other music, but he says writing a symphony is a particularly moving experience: "I need a private place where I can express the spiritual, the epic, the heartbreaking without shame or embarrassment."