User:Hyacinth

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I'm a Wikipedian and I'm queer. I also have a currently uncontrolled seizure condition/epilepsy including tonic–clonic seizures ("grand mal"). What to do if a person has a seizure: [1].

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Warren J. Blumenfeld argues in How Homophobia Hurts Everyone that anti-gay sentiment hurts straight people as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people: [2] ([3] under "LGBTIQ Support Information"). From: Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price (1992), ISBN 9780807079195.

No [person] can put a chain about the ankle of [another person] without at last finding the other end fastened about [his or her] own neck."

—Frederick Douglass

Pulitzer Prize winners in Music

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2012: Kevin Puts, Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts
2011: Zhou Long, Madame White Snake (opera), opera (finalists: Fred Lerdahl Arches, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon: Comala)
2010: Jennifer Higdon, Violin Concerto (Higdon)
2009: Steve Reich, Double Sextet
2008: David Lang, The Little Match Girl Passion
2007: Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar
2006: Yehudi Wyner, Chiavi in Mano, (piano concerto)
2005: Steven Stucky Second Concerto for Orchestra (Stucky)
2004: Paul Moravec Tempest Fantasy
2003: John Coolidge Adams On the Transmigration of Souls
2002: Henry Brant Ice Field
2001: John Corigliano Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra
2000: Lewis Spratlan Life is a Dream, opera in three acts: Act II, Concert Version
1999: Melinda Wagner Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
1998: Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 2 (Kernis), Musica Instrumentalis, special citation to George Gershwin
1997: Wynton Marsalis Blood on the Fields (Oratorio)
1996: George Walker Lilacs for soprano and orchestra
1995: Morton Gould Stringmusic
1994: Gunther Schuller Of Reminiscences and Reflections
1993: Christopher Rouse (composer) Trombone Concerto (Rouse)
1992: Wayne Peterson The Face of the Night, The Heart of the Dark
1991: Shulamit Ran Symphony¹
1990: Mel Powell Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra¹
1989: Roger Reynolds Whispers Out of Time¹ 2nd choice: Steven Stucky Concerto for Orchestra (Stucky), 3rd choice: Bright Sheng H'un (Lacerations): In Memorium 1966-76²
1988: William Bolcom 12 New Etudes for Piano¹ 2nd choice: Gunther Schuller Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Schuller)²
1987: John Harbison The Flight Into Egypt¹
1986: George Perle Wind Quintet IV¹
1985: Stephen Albert Symphony RiverRun¹
1984: Bernard Rands "Canti del Sole" for Tenor and Orchestra¹
1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Symphony No. 1¹
1982: Roger Sessions Concerto for Orchestra¹, special citation to Milton Babbitt³
1981: No award¹
1980: David Del Tredici In Memory of a Summer Day¹
1979: Joseph Schwantner Aftertones of Infinity¹
1978: Michael Colgrass Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra¹
1977: Richard Wernick Visions of Terror and Wonder¹³
1976: Ned Rorem Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra¹, special citation to Scott Joplin³
1975: Dominick Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf¹³
1974: Donald Martino Notturno (chamber music)¹, special citation to Roger Sessions³
1973: Elliott Carter String Quartet No. 3¹³
1972: Jacob Druckman Windows (Druckman)³
1971: Mario Davidovsky Synchronisms No. 6³
1970: Charles Wuorinen Time's Encomium³
1969: Karel Husa String Quartet No. 3³
1968: George Crumb Echoes of Time and the River³
1967: Leon Kirchner String Quartet No. 3 (Kirchner)
1966: Leslie Bassett Variations for Orchestra (Bassett)
1965: no prize
1964: no prize
1963: Samuel Barber Piano Concerto (Barber)
1962: Robert Ward The Crucible
1961: Walter Piston Symphony No. 7 (Piston)
1960: Elliott Carter String Quartet No. 2 (Carter)
1959: John La Montaine Piano Concerto (La Montaine) no. 1, Op. 9, "In Time of War"
1958: Samuel Barber Vanessa
1957: Norman Dello Joio Meditations on Ecclesiastes
1956: Ernst Toch Symphony No. 3 (Toch), Op. 75, 2nd: Roger H. Sessions Concerto for Piano and Orchestra⁴
1955: Gian Carlo Menotti The Saint of Bleecker Street
1954: Quincy Porter Concerto concertante
1953: no prize
1952: Gail Kubik Symphony Concertante, followed by Lockrem Johnson A Letter to Emily, Bohuslav Martinu Comedy on the Bridge, Otto C. Luening Concerto for Orchestra, Dai-Keong Lee Symphony No. 2, Ross Lee Finney String Quartet No. 6.⁵
1951: Douglas Stuart Moore Giants in the Earth
1950: Gian Carlo Menotti The Consul
1949: Virgil Thomson Louisiana Story
1948: Walter Piston Symphony No. 3 (Piston)
1947: Charles Ives Symphony No. 3 (Ives) The Camp Meeting
1946: Leo Sowerby Canticle of the Sun
1945: Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring
1944: Howard Hanson Symphony No. 4 (Hanson) (Requiem)
1943: William Schuman Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song

Sources

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s The New York Times (2011). The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind, p.1116. ISBN 9780312643027.
^ ^a ^b Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (2003). The Pulitzer Prize archive, p.275. ISBN 9783598301704.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k McGeveran, William A. (2004). The world almanac and book of facts 2004, p.278. ISBN 9780886879105.
^ Heinz-D Fischer, Erika J. Fischer (2003). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000, p.265. ISBN 9783110939125.
^ Heinz-D Fischer, Erika J. Fischer (2003). Complete Historical Handbook of the Pulitzer Prize System 1917-2000, p.264. ISBN 9783110939125.

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