About
The first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music for her Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1), which was first performed by the American Symphony Orchestra in 1982.
Before Fame
She studied violin at Florida State University. She was initially fascinated by atonal music, but eventually developed a post-modernist, neoromantic style.
Trivia
She was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1994.
Family Life
Her husband Joseph died in 1979.
Associated With
She won the Pulitzer Prize the year after Roger Sessions won his.
