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Finalist: Symphony No. 5 , by George Rochberg

Premiered on March 13, 1986 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Winners

Prize Winner in Music in 1986:

George Perle

Premiered on October 2, 1985 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. Music

The Jury

Martin Bernheimer*

Music Critic, Los Angeles Times

Leon Kirchner*

Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University

Winners in Music

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on May 5, 1982 in Alice Tully Hall, New York City.

Roger Sessions

First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 23, 1981, Seiji Ozawa, conductor.

1986 Prize Winners