Talk:Pulitzer Prize for Music

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I removed the following, on the grounds that it gives undue weight -- in an article with only paragraph of actual text -- to one guy's opinion. Context, please, before polemics. --Calton | Talk 00:12, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

In 1998 Kyle Gann wrote that after researching the top composition prizes in America, including the Pulitzer Prize for Music, he discovered that the award panels often included "the same seven names over and over as judges": Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman (now deceased), George Perle, John Harbison, Mario Davidovsky, and Bernard Rands. Gann concluded that since all of these composers are white men, and generally have same "narrow Eurocentric aesthetic" that the prize has been unfairly biased against Downtown music.

Again, I have removed the two paragraphs worth undue weight opinion -- having essentially one man's opinion take up two-thirds of the article text is unbalanced and ignores context. Provide the context, the background to the award, etc. or out it will continue to come. --Calton | Talk 23:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Why do you say "one man's opinion"? This is not one man's opinion. As it stands now, the article includes the opinions of *TWO* Pulitzer Prize winners, namely John Adams and John Corigliano, and I also added details about supposed rule changes (which so far seem not to have affected the resulting selections).

Ah, so you've padded it a bit, adding a blog reference (not a reliable source) and making it 3/4ths of the content instead of 2/3rds.

You're grinding an axe, and this isn't the place for it. --Calton | Talk 04:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I changed the blog to a news source. Added response to criticism from the PPAB. There is a long and well documented *controversy* regarding this prize and it certainly deserves mention. This is supposed to be an article about the "Pulitzer Prize for Music," and not simply a list of the winners. For that you can go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Music_winners

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