Steve Reich Wins 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

It's.

About.

(expletive)

Time.

It's a shame that he didn't win it for one of his landmark earlier works.  Music For 18 Musicians is probably the strongest work, and Different Trains, though not my favorite Reich piece, would have been a perfect candidate from a marketing standpoint alone (and it's a really good piece to boot).

Oh well.  We'll take the victories where we can.  Ornette Coleman, David Lang, and now Reich.  Anyone care to propose the next logical winner?  Philip Glass?  John Luther Adams?  Can they give a posthumous one to Feldman, or Cage, or Miles Davis, or John Coltrane, or...