One evening in May, Rhiannon Giddens was taking a walk near her home in southern Ireland. The stroll had become a nightly ritual, a way to clear her head after helping her two children get ready for bed. This night was special. A tweet popped up on her phone, announcing that she and her co-composer, Michael Abels, had won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for, an opera that tells the story of a Muslim man who was enslaved and
Turning It Up
Jul 17, 2023
3 minutes
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