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
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
Natalie Angier
For her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
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.