Finalist: Piano Concerto , by Peter Lieberson
Premiered on April 21, 1983 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 1984:
Bernard Rands
Premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on June 8, 1983.
Music
The Jury
The Jury
Jacob Druckman(Chair)*
Professor and Chair of Composition, Yale University
Milton Babbitt*
Conant Professor of Music, Princeton University
Martin Bernheimer*
Music Critic, Los Angeles Times
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.
David Del Tredici
A work for soprano solo and orchestra, commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony for its 100th anniversary and premiered by that orchestra on February 23, 1980.
1984 Prize Winners
Paul Goldberger
For architectural criticism.