The Canticle of the Sun (Sowerby)

The Canticle of the Sun is a musical composition by Leo Sowerby (1895–1968) setting Matthew Arnold's English translation of Francis of Assisi's "Canticle of the Sun" for chorus and orchestra in 1945; the work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music the following year. The first performance was in New York at Carnegie Hall by the Schola Cantorum and the New York Philharmonic on April 16, 1945. The first recording of it by Chicago's Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus under Carlos Kalmar was released in June 2011. The piece was commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund.^[1]

The 1946 Jury Report is lost and thus the other finalists are unknown for that year,^[2] however the jury consisted of Chalmers Clifton, Aaron Copland, and Howard Hanson.^[3]

References

↑ Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners, p.420. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9781573561112.
↑ Fischer, Heinz Dietrich (2010). The Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music: Composer Biographies, Premiere Programs and Jury Reports, p.20. Peter Lang. ISBN 9783631596081.
↑ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer (2001). Musical Composition Awards 1943-1999: From Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber to Gian-Carlo Menotti and Melinda Wagner, p.xx. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110955750.

Pulitzer Prize for Music (1943–1950)

William Schuman ('43): A Free Song Howard Hanson ('44): Symphony No. 4 Aaron Copland ('45): Appalachian Spring Leo Sowerby ('46): The Canticle of the Sun Charles Ives ('47): Symphony No. 3 Walter Piston ('48): Symphony No. 3 Virgil Thomson ('49): Louisiana Story Gian Carlo Menotti ('50): The Consul

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Francis of Assisi

Organisations	Order of Friars Minor (Custody of the Holy Land) Order of Saint Clare Secular Franciscan Order

Literature	Little Flowers of St. Francis

Visual art	Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio) Saint Francis in Meditation (Caravaggio) Saint Francis in Prayer (Caravaggio) Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (Caravaggio) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Giotto) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck) St. Francis in Ecstasy (Bellini)

Music	"All Creatures of Our God and King" "Canticle of the Sun" "The Canticle of the Sun" (Sowerby) Le Laudi Légende No. 1 (Liszt)

Stage	Saint François d'Assise (1983 Messiaen opera) Samstag aus Licht (1983 Stockhausen opera) Nobilissima Visione (ballet)

Films	The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) Francis of Assisi (1961) Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Francesco (1989)

Related	Pranchiyettan & the Saint Madonna of Foligno Wolf of Gubbio Discalced Prayer of Saint Francis Pope Francis

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