Tag: Tyshawn Sorey

NYT: Wynnewood’s Tyshawn Sorey Takes Home Pulitzer for 'Adagio', Unconventional Concerto He Composed

May 13, 2024

Tyshawn Sorey, a Wynnewood resident, has won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for composing Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith), an unconventional concerto for saxophone and…

Education

New York Times: Girard College Students Join Avant-Garde Musician for Multimedia Adaptation of ‘Be Holding’

June 8, 2023

Students from Girard College in Philadelphia joined the composer Tyshawn Sorey and the contemporary classical group Yarn/Wire for a multimedia adaptation of “Be Holding…