Wuorinen, a lifelong New Yorker who celebrates his 75th birthday this year, is the recipient of both a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur grant. He has written more than 260 works, including an earlier ...

Charles Wuorinen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and formidable advocate for modernist music, high culture and the composer’s worth, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 81. Wuorinen, who won the ...

Charles Wuorinen, ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Música y compositor de las óperas “Brokeback Mountain” y “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, murió de lesiones relacionadas con una caída que sufrió el ...

Charles Wuorinen, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas “Brokeback Mountain,” died from injuries sustained in a fall last September. By Associated Press Charles ...

Renowned composer Charles Wuorinen, a fixture on the American music scene for more than four decades, will appear next month at UB with the Slee Sinfonietta in a program celebrating Wuorinen’s music.

“The mystery of Love is greater than the mystery of Death,” murmurs the title character of Salome as she takes a breather from canoodling with the severed head of John the Baptist. The concupiscent ...

Lincoln Jones hopped off a skateboard and hurried toward afternoon rehearsal. His dancers, dressed in black and wearing heels, waited along a window near a laptop that played the score of “Burlesque,” ...

As does Anne-Marie McDermott in Wuorinen’s 2007 Fourth Piano Sonata, which you’d understandably confuse for the 1986 Third Sonata if you happen to listen to both works back to back. The first, second ...

Mr. Wuorinen won a Pulitzer Prize at 31 and went on to write a large body of mainly atonal works, including the opera “Brokeback Mountain.” By William Robin Charles Wuorinen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Charles Wuorinen, a brilliant modernist composer who was only 31 when his work "Time's Encomium" became the first electronic piece to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, died March 11 at a hospital in ...