Finalist: Tituli , by Stephen Hartke
Premiered on January 15, 2001 at Alfred Newman Recital Hall, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 2001:
John Corigliano
Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on November 30, 2000 at Symphony Hall, Boston, MA.
Music
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 2001:
Fred Lerdahl
Premiered on December 12, 2000 at Merkin Hall, New York City.
The Jury
The Jury
Robert Ward(chair )*
composer, professor emeritus of music
David N. Baker
distinguished professor and chair of Jazz Studies Department
John Harbison*
Institute Professor of Music
Tim Page*
culture critic
Shulamit Ran*
composer and professor of music
Winners in Music
Lewis Spratlan
Premiered on January 28, 2000 by Dinosaur Annex in Amherst, MA. Libretto by James Maraniss.
Melinda Wagner
Premiered on May 30, 1998 by the Westchester Philharmonic in Purchase, New York, and commissioned by that orchestra for Paul Lustig Dunkel.
Aaron Jay Kernis
Premiered on January 10, 1998, at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, by The Lark Quartet.
Wynton Marsalis
Premiered on January 28, 1997 at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
2001 Prize Winners
David Cay Johnston
For his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
Alan Diaz
For his photograph of armed U.S. federal agents seizing the Cuban boy Elián Gonzalez from his relatives' Miami home.
Staff
For its balanced and gripping on-the-scene coverage of the pre-dawn raid by federal agents that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunited him with his Cuban father.