Finalist: Serenata Concertante , by Donald Martino
Premiered on April 19, 1999 at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 2000:
Lewis Spratlan
Premiered on January 28, 2000 by Dinosaur Annex in Amherst, MA. Libretto by James Maraniss.
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 2000:
John Zorn
Premiered on February 17, 2000 at the Society for Ethical Culture, New York City
The Jury
The Jury
Gunther Schuller(chair )*
composer-conductor
David Hamilton
doctoral faculty
Wayne Peterson*
composer, professor emeritus
Melinda Wagner*
composer
Yehudi Wyner*
Walter Neumburg Professor of Composition
Winners in Music
Melinda Wagner
Premiered on May 30, 1998 by the Westchester Philharmonic in Purchase, New York, and commissioned by that orchestra for Paul Lustig Dunkel.
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.
2000 Prize Winners
George Dohrmann
For his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
Photo Staff
For its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.
Staff
For its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.