Finalist: Century Rolls , by John Adams
Premiered on September 25, 1997, at Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, by The Cleveland Orchestra.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 1998:
Aaron Jay Kernis
Premiered on January 10, 1998, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1998:
Yehudi Wyner
Premiered on December 7, 1997, at several locations.
The Jury
The Jury
Joseph Schwantner(chair )*
composer/professor of composition, Eastman School of Music
John Harbison*
composer/Institute Professor
John Lewis
concert artist
Howard Reich
jazz critic
Winners in Music
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..
Gunther Schuller
Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Ky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.
1998 Prize Winners
George Gershwin
Awarded posthumously, commemorating the centennial year of his birth, for his distinguished and enduring contributions to American music.
Linda Greenhouse
For her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court.
Staff
For its comprehensive coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shoot-out in North Hollywood.