For distinguished musical composition by an American in any of the larger forms including chamber, orchestral, choral, opera, song, dance, or other forms of musical theatre, which has had its first performance in the United States during the year, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
"Canti del Sole" for Tenor and Orchestra , by Bernard Rands
Premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on June 8, 1983.
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1984:
Peter Lieberson
Premiered on April 21, 1983 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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.