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Lilacs

Pulitzer Prize-winning piece for voice and orchestra by George T. Walker
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Lilacs

Summary

Lilacs is a musical work/composition[1]. Lilacs ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lilacs received the Pulitzer Prize for Music[3].
  • Lilacs's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[4].
  • Lilacs's composer is recorded as George Walker[5].
  • Lilacs's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • Lilacs's lyricist is recorded as Walt Whitman[7].
  • Lilacs's instrumentation is recorded as high voice[8].
  • Lilacs's instrumentation is recorded as orchestra[9].
  • Lilacs's date of first performance is recorded as February 1, 1996[10].
  • Lilacs's title is recorded as Lilacs, for voice and orchestra[11].
  • Lilacs's has lyrics is recorded as When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd[12].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • MusicBrainz ID: 6845b6b1-77f0-43fd-b38b-9b8e8c657e66[13]

Body

Publication

Lilacs's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].

Reception

Lilacs received the Pulitzer Prize for Music[3].

Why It Matters

Lilacs ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[2]

FAQs

What awards did Lilacs receive?

Honors received include Pulitzer Prize for Music[3].

Related Entities

Walt Whitman

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . pulitzer.org. Retrieved . pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . pulitzer.org. Retrieved . pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . pulitzer.org. Retrieved . pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . latimes.com. Retrieved . latimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . latimes.com. Retrieved . latimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . songofamerica.net. Retrieved . songofamerica.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . songofamerica.net. Retrieved . songofamerica.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . pulitzer.org. Retrieved . pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . pulitzer.org. Retrieved . pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . latimes.com. Retrieved . latimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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