Finalist: Adagio Tenebroso , by Elliott Carter
Premiered on October 15, 1995, in Birmingham, Ala., by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 1996:
George Walker
Premiered on February 1, 1996, in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was commissioned by that orchestra.
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1996:
Peter Lieberson
Premiered on May 28, 1995, at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.
The Jury
The Jury
Richard Wernick(chair )*
composer, conductor, Magnin Professor of Humanities
David N. Baker
composer, distinguished professor of music
Leslie Bassett*
composer, Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor of Music
Mario Davidovsky*
composer, Fanny Peabody Mason Professor of Music
David Hamilton
doctoral faculty
Winners in Music
Morton Gould
Premiered on March 10, 1994, by the National Symphony Orchestra at The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C..
Gunther Schuller
Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Ky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.
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.
1996 Prize Winners
Herb Caen
For his extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city.
Bob Keeler
For his detailed portrait of a progressive local Catholic parish and its parishioners.
E.R. Shipp
For her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.