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Finalist: Wilde: A Symphony in Three Movements , by Charles Fussell

Premiered on November 4, 1990, in Newton, Mass., by the Newton Symphony Orchestra; text by Will Graham.

Winners

Prize Winner in Music in 1991:

Shulamit Ran

Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990. Music

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Music in 1991:

Bright Sheng

Premiered in New York City on April 24, 1990 by the Peabody Trio.

The Jury

Robert Ward(Chair)*

Professor of Music, Duke University

George Perle*

Composer-in-Residence, San Francisco Symphony

Martin Bernheimer*

Music Critic, Los Angeles Times

Winners in Music

Mel Powell

Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on January 26, 1990.

Roger Reynolds

Premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.

William Bolcom

First complete performance by Marc-André Hamelin, pianist, on March 30, 1987 at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.

John Harbison

Premiered by the Cantata Singers and Ensemble on November 21, 1986, at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

1991 Prize Winners

Jim Hoagland

For searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.

David Shaw

For his critiques of the way in which the media, including his own paper, reported the McMartin Pre-School child molestation case.