Julian Anderson’s ‘Litanies’ wins 2023 music prize By Denise Fitzpatrick The Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the death of an esteemed colleague influenced the creation of “Litanies,” said Julian Anderson, a British composer named today as winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for the work. “Notre Dame burned while I was writing […]
New Delhi: Mikhail Gorbachev, the final Soviet leader, passed away on Tuesday, August 30. He was 91 years old. He had aimed to revitalize the Soviet Union but instead released forces that caused communism to fall, the state to disintegrate, and the Cold War to come to an end. A statement from the Central Clinical […]
A scholar who explained how Japanese American Buddhists remained true to their faith even after being forced into U.S. detention camps during WWII has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Duncan Ryuken Williams, a religion professor who directs the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California, won […]
An economist who found that integrating U.S. public schools in the 1970s and 1980s benefited students over time has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Rucker Johnson, a University of California-Berkeley public policy professor specializing in education economics, received the prize for ideas set forth in “Children of the Dream: Why […]
Psychologist Terrie Moffitt has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for shedding new light on the nature of juvenile crime. Moffitt, a Duke University psychologist and King’s College, London, social development professor, discovered two types of antisocial behavior in juveniles. One persists from early childhood to adulthood, is relatively rare and seen mostly in […]
Rutgers University scholar Mona Lena Krook has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for exploring the nature of violence against women in politics and suggesting ways to prevent it. Krook, a political science professor who chairs Rutgers’ doctoral program on women and politics, received the prize for ideas […]
Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for “Orlando,” an opera based on a Virginia Woolf novel about a gender-switching poet whose adventures span more than three centuries. The opera, an unconventional piece embracing a vast range of musical styles from Tudor-era ballads to modern electronic […]
The Grawemeyer Award for Education announces with sorrow the passing of Mike Rose, winner of the 1997 Award for his book “Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America,” Mike Rose focuses on the positive things going on in these classrooms and, through them, offers hope for the future of public education. “Possible Lives” […]
The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition announces with sorrow the passing of Louis Andriessen, winner of the 2011 Award for his large scale opera, La Commedia, based on texts by Dante, in 2011. Maestro Andriessen spent about a week on campus where, among other activities, he gave lessons to University of Louisville composition students, as […]