The museum portion of the complex draws visitors immediately past a restaurant and gift shop into a Cordoba-like, multicolumned lobby and the sky-high Freedom Hall where an LED installation is programmable for any occasion.

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Other finalists included previous winner Aaron Jay Kernis for classical composition "Pieces of Winter Sky" and jazz musician Wadada Leo Smith for "Ten Freedom Summers, " a 10-part examination of the civil rights movement.

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