Whenever things like the MacArthur grants or other similarly big-name prizes are announced, I wonder about that initial phone call that informed the recipients of the good news. After all, while these are clearly amazing folks, many of them work well outside of the general public’s sightline. NPR carried this story, which includes a lot of audio of Nobel prize winners dealing with the sudden uptick in popularity. Some of them are kind of annoyed that their workday has been interrupted!
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When Steve Reich won the Pulitizer for Double Sextet (PLUG: which has just been released this month on Nonesuch! http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/double-sextet)he was in the middle of an all-afternoon video shoot for a documentary. We were all ringing his phone off the hook to tell him and he was just perplexed as to why the phone wouldn’t stop interrupting the interview.