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PULITZER: John Corigliano '59 was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer
Prize in music, along with a cash prize of $7,500, for his
Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra. An expansion of his
1995 String Quartet, the work premiered in November 2000
with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A tour
the following month included a performance in Carnegie
Hall.
The
son of a New York Philharmonic concertmaster and a pianist,
Corigliano continues in the tradition of his musical family as a
composer of orchestral, chamber, opera, and film works. He earned a
2000 Academy Award for The Red Violin, his third film score,
becoming the second classical composer to receive the award,
preceded only by Aaron Copland. Corigliano's Symphony No. 1,
a response to the AIDS crisis, earned the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra 1991 Grammy Awards for both Best New Composition and Best
Orchestral Performance. Grammy Awards also lauded his 40-minute
String Quartet in 1996, making him the first composer to win
Best New Composition twice.
A
native New Yorker, Corigliano holds professorships at both CCNY and
Julliard. In 1991, he was elected to the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters. His newest recording,
Phantasmagoria (Sony Classical), features cellist Yo-Yo Ma
and pianists Emanuel Ax '70 and James Tocco.
NEW
YORK: When New York: A Documentary Film premiered on PBS
in 1999, the five-part, 10-hour series was hailed for its
extraordinary narrative power and its unprecedented breadth and
scope in detailing New York City's history, from the arrival of
Henry Hudson in 1609 to the opening of the Empire State Building in
1931. Now, the Emmy and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award-winning
series will conclude with two final episodes covering the time from
the Depression to the present day. Directed, co-produced and
co-written by Ric Burns '78, episodes six and seven will
premiere on Sunday, September 30 and Monday, October 1 (9 p.m.,
PBS; check local listings).
Burns calls the seven decades from the stock market crash in
1929 to the present "the most riveting and fateful period in the
city's entire history, when New York faced its most critical
challenges and took its modern form." Episode 6 is entitled "The
City of Tomorrow" and covers 1929-45, while episode 7 is called
"The City and the World" and takes us up to present
time.
Burns is hardly the film's only Columbia connection. His
co-producer is Steve Rivo '93 and his co-writer is James
Sanders '76. Among College figures contributing to the final
two episodes are professor Ken Jackson, alumni Robert A.M. Stern
'60, Marshall Berman '61 and Mike Wallace '64, and in
one of his final on-screen appearances, Allen Ginsberg
'48.
NOMINATED: President Bush has nominated Miguel Estrada
'83 for the United States Court of Appeals, District of
Columbia Circuit. Estrada is the first Latino to be nominated for
the court, considered by many lawyers to be the second most
important court in the nation after the U.S. Supreme Court. The
nomination was announced along with 10 other federal appeals courts
candidates on May 9.
Born
in Honduras, Estrada is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and has argued 15 cases before the
U.S. Supreme Court. He is a partner of Theodore Olson, who led the
Bush campaign's successful legal battle during the Florida recount.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Estrada practiced corporate law
in New York with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, then served as
Assistant U.S. Attorney and deputy chief of the Appellate Section
in the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office. From
1992 until 1997, he served as Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor
General.
HONORED: Arun Kristian Das '95 received the South Asian
Journalists Association's Journalism Award on June 23. A 2001
graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Das will be
honored for his documentary on police shooting deaths in New York
City, Two Deaths Too Many. SAJA gives the awards to
recognize outstanding reporting about South Asia and by South Asian
journalists and students. The award was presented by editor of
Newsweek International Fareed Zakaria at SAJA's national
convention.
SCHOLAR: The New York Public Library Center has named
Mike Wallace '64 one of 15 Scholars and Writers for
2001-2002. A professor of history at John Jay College of Criminal
Justice and the City University of New York, Wallace, who earned
both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia, was selected from 293
applicants from 25 countries. The Center for Scholars and Writers
offers a nine-month fellowship that allows novelists, historians,
scientists and others to complete their research close to the
Library's resources. Fellows receive a stipend and office space at
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue and are scheduled as speakers in the
Center's lecture series.
STATMAN: Bruce Levin '68, professor of biostatistics at the
School of Public Health, was named a Fellow of the American
Statistical Association last month in Atlanta. The designation
signifies an individual's "outstanding service to and leadership in
the field of statistical science," according to the organization,
which accorded 48 members the Fellows honor. Levin was cited "for
influential contributions to legal statistics; for the development
of methods for complex discrete data analysis and for sequential
analysis; [and] for statistical leadership in Biostatistics at
Columbia University."
OFF THE
STREET: Dave Kansas '90 has resigned as editor-in-chief of
TheStreet.com, a source of
financial information for individual investors as well as a
provider of business news to other media outlets. A former reporter
for The Wall Street Journal, Kansas worked with
TheStreet.com from its founding five years ago until his
resignation on June 13.
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