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Article: PULITZER WINNER FROM BU WRITES WORK FOR BSO
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 19, 1989
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Boston University celebrates its 150th birthday this year. One
unusual aspect of the festivities was to join the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in co-commissioning a new work by one of the university's
most distinguished faculty members, composer Bernard Rands. Seiji
Ozawa will conduct the premiere performances of ". . . body and
shadow . . ." during this week's concerts.
Rands, who will turn 55 on March 2, has been a prominent
figure on the international scene for nearly 30 years; he won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Although he has been teaching at Boston
University for four years and has become a familiar presence in the
audience at most important concerts, his music is virtually unknown ...