Finalist: Drama for Orchestra , by Vivian Fine
Premiered on January 5, 1983 by the San Francisco Symphony, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
Winners
Prize Winner in Music in 1983:
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.
Music
The Jury
The Jury
Miriam Gideon
Composer
Leon Kirchner*
Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University
Robert Ward*
Professor of Composition, Duke University
Winners in Music
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.
Joseph Schwantner
First performed by the American Composers Orchestra on January 29, 1979 in Alice Tully Hall New York City.
1983 Prize Winners
Manuela Hoelterhoff
For her wide-ranging criticism on the arts and other subjects.