Voiceless Mass

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music

Interior of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Milwaukee); pipe organ visible at back.

Voiceless Mass by Diné-American composer Raven Chacon was the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music.^[1]^[2] The work was written specifically for the pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Milwaukee) and it premiered at the cathedral on November 21, 2021.^[3]

Composition

The work is scored for the organ and flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, two percussionists, strings and sine tones.^[3]

References

^ "Washington Post wins public service Pulitzer for Capitol attack coverage". The Guardian. May 9, 2022. Archived from the original on May 9, 2022. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
^ Chapman, Wilson (May 9, 2022). "Pulitzer Prizes Include James Ijames for 'Fat Ham,' Raven Chacon for 'Voiceless Mass'". Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Huizenga, Tom (May 10, 2022). "Meet Raven Chacon, the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music". NPR. Archived from the original on May 11, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022.

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

1943–1950

William Schuman ('43): A Free Song
Howard Hanson ('44): Symphony No. 4
Aaron Copland ('45): Appalachian Spring
Leo Sowerby ('46): The Canticle of the Sun
Charles Ives ('47): Symphony No. 3
Walter Piston ('48): Symphony No. 3
Virgil Thomson ('49): Louisiana Story
Gian Carlo Menotti ('50): The Consul

1951–1960

Douglas Moore ('51): Giants in the Earth
Gail Kubik ('52): Symphony Concertante
n.a. ('53)
Quincy Porter ('54): Concerto Concertante
Gian Carlo Menotti ('55): The Saint of Bleecker Street
Ernst Toch ('56): Symphony No. 3
Norman Dello Joio ('57): Meditations on Ecclesiastes
Samuel Barber ('58): Vanessa
John La Montaine ('59): Piano Concerto No. 1
Elliott Carter ('60): String Quartet No. 2

1961–1970

Walter Piston ('61): Symphony No. 7
Robert Ward ('62): The Crucible
Samuel Barber ('63): Piano Concerto
n.a. ('64)
n.a. ('65)
Leslie Bassett ('66): Variations for Orchestra
Leon Kirchner ('67): Quartet No. 3 for strings and electronic tape
George Crumb ('68): Echoes of Time and the River
Karel Husa ('69): String Quartet No. 3
Charles Wuorinen ('70): Time's Encomium

1971–1980

Mario Davidovsky ('71): Synchronisms No. 6
Jacob Druckman ('72): Windows
Elliott Carter ('73): String Quartet No. 3
Donald Martino ('74): Notturno
Dominick Argento ('75): From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Ned Rorem ('76): Air Music
Richard Wernick ('77): Visions of Terror and Wonder
Michael Colgrass ('78): Deja Vu
Joseph Schwantner ('79): Aftertones of Infinity
David Del Tredici ('80): In Memory of a Summer Day

1981–1990

n.a. ('81)
Roger Sessions ('82): Concerto for Orchestra
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ('83): Symphony No. 1
Bernard Rands ('84): Canti del Sole
Stephen Albert ('85): Symphony No. 1
George Perle ('86): Wind Quintet No. 4
John Harbison ('87): The Flight into Egypt
William Bolcom ('88): Twelve New Etudes for Piano
Roger Reynolds ('89): Whispers Out of Time
Mel Powell ('90): Duplicates: A Concerto

1991–2000

Shulamit Ran ('91): Symphony
Wayne Peterson ('92): The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark
Christopher Rouse ('93): Trombone Concerto
Gunther Schuller ('94): Of Reminiscences and Reflections
Morton Gould ('95): Stringmusic
George Walker ('96): Lilacs
Wynton Marsalis ('97): Blood on the Fields
Aaron Jay Kernis ('98): String Quartet No. 2
Melinda Wagner ('99): Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion
Lewis Spratlan ('00): Life Is a Dream

2001–2010

John Corigliano ('01): Symphony No. 2
Henry Brant ('02): Ice Field
John Adams ('03): On the Transmigration of Souls
Paul Moravec ('04): Tempest Fantasy
Steven Stucky ('05): Second Concerto for Orchestra
Yehudi Wyner ('06): Chiavi in Mano
Ornette Coleman ('07): Sound Grammar
David Lang ('08): The Little Match Girl Passion
Steve Reich ('09): Double Sextet
Jennifer Higdon ('10): Violin Concerto

2011–2020

Zhou Long ('11): Madame White Snake
Kevin Puts ('12): Silent Night
Caroline Shaw ('13): Partita for 8 Voices
John Luther Adams ('14): Become Ocean
Julia Wolfe ('15): Anthracite Fields
Henry Threadgill ('16): In for a Penny, In for a Pound
Du Yun ('17): Angel's Bone
Kendrick Lamar ('18): DAMN.
Ellen Reid ('19): Prism
Anthony Davis ('20): The Central Park Five

2021–2030

Tania León ('21): Stride
Raven Chacon ('22): Voiceless Mass
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels ('23): Omar

Special
citations

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for Oklahoma! (1944)
Roger Sessions (1974)
Scott Joplin (1976)
Milton Babbitt (1982)
William Schuman (1985)
George Gershwin (1998)
Duke Ellington (1999)
Thelonious Monk (2006)
John Coltrane (2007)
Bob Dylan (2008)
Hank Williams (2010)
Aretha Franklin (2019)

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