Finalist: Persistent Memory , by David Rakowski
Premiered on March 7, 1998 by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 1999:
Melinda Wagner
Premiered on May 30, 1998 by the Westchester Philharmonic in Purchase, New York, and commissioned by that orchestra for Paul Lustig Dunkel.
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1999:
Stanislav Skorwaczewski
Premiered on November 19, 1998 by the Curtis Symphony at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.
The Jury
The Jury
Gunther Schuller(chair )*
composer/conductor
Leslie Bassett*
composer/professor of music
John Lewis
composer, concert artist
Tim Page*
music critic
Wayne Peterson*
composer
Winners in Music
Aaron Jay Kernis
Premiered on January 10, 1998, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
Wynton Marsalis
Premiered on January 28, 1997 at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
George Walker
Premiered on February 1, 1996, in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was commissioned by that orchestra.
Morton Gould
Premiered on March 10, 1994, by the National Symphony Orchestra at The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C..
1999 Prize Winners
Duke Ellington
Bestowed posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture.
Chuck Philips and Michael A. Hiltzik
For their stories on corruption in the entertainment industry, including a charity sham sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, illegal detoxification programs for wealthy celebrities, and a resurgence of radio payola.
Staff
For its clear and detailed coverage of a shooting rampage in which a state lottery worker killed four supervisors then himself.