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Which one of George Crumb's compositions won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music?

  • Black Angels

  • Ancient Voices of Children

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  • Echoes of Time and the River

Answer

Echoes of Time and the River is a 1967 composition by George Crumb for orchestra, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1968. The piece is a tone poem, based on the poems of American poet T. S. Eliot, in which Crumb uses a wide variety of instrumental colors and textures to evoke the images and sounds of a river, the seasons, and the passing of time.
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