Lewis Spratlan

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Lewis Spratlan (b. 1940, Miami, United States) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He studied composition with Mel Powell at Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Spizzwinks(?).

Spratlan joined the faculty of Amherst College in 1970 and retired in 2006; he is now Professor of Music Emeritus. He also conducted the Amherst College Orchestra for several years.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2000 for his one-act opera Life is a Dream. Although Spratlan wrote the opera in 1978, it was not premiered until a concert version of the second act was performed at Amherst College in January 2000.

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