Finalist: Still Movement with Hymn , by Aaron Jay Kernis
Premiered on November 11, 1993, at Princeton University and commissioned by American Public Radio.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 1994:
Gunther Schuller
Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Ky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1994:
Charles Wuorinen
Premiered on March 19, 1993, in Philadelphia and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
The Jury
The Jury
Richard Wernick(chair )*
composer, conductor, Irving Fine Professor of Music
David Hamilton
music critic
John Harbison*
Class of 1949 Professor in the Humanities
John LaMontaine*
composer
Joan Tower
composer, professor of music
Winners in Music
Christopher Rouse
Premiered December 30, 1992, in New York by the New York Philharmonic.
Wayne Peterson
Premiered on October 17, 1991, by the San Francisco Symphony.
Shulamit Ran
Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990.
Mel Powell
Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on January 26, 1990.
1994 Prize Winners
Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld
For dogged reporting that disclosed flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency.
William Raspberry
For his compelling commentaries on a variety of social and political topics.
Lloyd Schwartz
For his skillful and resonant classical music criticism.