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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

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