Nicole Lizée

Aretha was given a special award for ”her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades.” In other news, composer Ellen Reid was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her work ’p r i s m.’

The 2019 Ecstatic Music Festival, which pairs modern classical with pop, rock, jazz artists for unique collaborations, continued on February 28 for a show that brought together free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, pianist/vocalist/improviser Amina Claudine Myers, and composer/flutist Nicole Mitchell…