Lewis Spratlan

Lewis Spratlan

Lewis Spratlan (b. 1940, Miami, United States) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He studied composition with Mel Powell at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Spizzwinks(?).

Spratlan joined the faculty of Amherst College in 1970 and retired in 2006; he is now Professor of Music Emeritus. He also conducted the Amherst College Orchestra for several years.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2000 for his one-act opera "Life is a Dream". Although Spratlan wrote the opera in 1978, it was not premiered until a concert version of the second act was performed at Amherst College in January 2000.

External links

* [http://www.lewisspratlan.com/ Lewis Spratlan Homepage]
* [http://www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/news_releases/99/spratlan.htm Press release] announcing Pulitzer Prize
* [http://www.amherst.edu/commencement/2006/honorands/spratlan.html Retirement honors]


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