For distinguished musical composition in the larger forms of chamber, orchestral or choral music, or for an operatic work (including ballet), performed or published during the year by a composer of established residence in the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Symphony No. 3, by Charles Ives
First performed by Lou Harrison and Chamber Orchestra in New York, April, 1946.
The Jury
The Jury
Chalmers Clifton
Winners in Music
Leo Sowerby
Commissioned by the Alice M Ditson Fund, first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945.
Aaron Copland
A ballet written for and presented by Martha Graham and group, commissioned by Mrs. E. S. Coolidge, first presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October, 1944.
Howard Hanson
Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 3, 1943.
William Schuman
Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York.
1947 Prize Winners
No author named
For their efforts to maintain and advance the high standards governing the Pulitzer Prize awards (Pulitzer centennial year).
Brooks Atkinson
For distinguished correspondence during 1946, as exemplified by his series of articles on Russia.
Vaughn Shoemaker
For his cartoon, "Still Racing His Shadow."