CPR's Monika Vischer welcomed two old friends to the CPR Performance Studio: Pulitzer Prize winning composer Kevin Puts and Colorado Symphony Music Director Brett Mitchell. Taking turns at the piano, they investigated the mystical process of composing: turning inspiration into music.
Puts won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his 2011 opera, Silent Night, about the famous "Christmas Truce" of 1914. He talked about his influences, from Beethoven to Bjork. He then demonstrated on the spot on our 9-foot Steinway how he’d go about writing a brand new work.