Question

This composer incorporated improvisational interludes in his Pulitzer-nominated piece Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), composed for the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this composer who won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his piece Adagio, composed for avant-garde jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.
ANSWER: Tyshawn Sorey
[10e] Sorey collaborated with John Zorn, a player of this instrument, on albums like In the Hall of Mirrors. Sorey also collaborated with Steve Coleman, who plays this reed instrument's alto type.
ANSWER: alto saxophone
[10m] Sorey was a drummer on albums such as Compassion and Far From Over by a musician with ancestry from this country. A jazz fusion “Orchestra” led by John McLaughlin pulled from this country's traditional music for The Inner Mounting Flame.
ANSWER: Republic of India [or Bhārat Gaṇarājya] (the musician is Vijay Iyer, and the orchestra is Mahavishnu Orchestra.)
<Noah Sheidlower, Other Fine Arts>

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