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Jennifer Higdon recently won the Pulitzer Prize for her musical compositions, yet she didn’t pick up a musical instrument – a pawn-shop flute her mother brought home – until she was fifteen. Higdon tells Kurt that her childhood home was more steeped in the Beatles than in Beethoven.

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