SAN DIEGO — Roger Reynolds, the visionary composer who earned a Pulitzer Prize for music in 1989 and has taught at UC San Diego since 1969, is one of this year’s 19 American Academy of Arts and Letters inductees.
The other 2023 inductees include film director Francis Ford Coppola, playwright-actor Anna Deavere Smith, author and poet Percival Everett, actress Frances McDormand and composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider.
“After many years of hearing vague rumors that I might be inducted, it was very exciting to get the news,” Reynolds told the Union-Tribune in a Zoom interview Monday afternoon from his Del Mar home.
