Trombone Concerto is presented in a 1997 RCA recording by Marin Alsop and the Colorado Symphony.
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, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).
Trombone Concerto, by Christopher Rouse
Premiered December 30, 1992, in New York by the New York Philharmonic.
Winning Work
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1993:
Joan Tower
Premiered on April 24, 1992, in Salt Lake City by the Utah Symphony.
Leon Kirchner
Premiered on October 16, 1992, in Philadelphia by the Philadelphia Orchestra and commissioned by that orchestra.
Winners in Music
Wayne Peterson
Premiered on October 17, 1991, by the San Francisco Symphony.
Shulamit Ran
Commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered by that orchestra on October 19, 1990.
Mel Powell
Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on January 26, 1990.
Roger Reynolds
Premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
1993 Prize Winners
Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White
For often exclusive coverage of General Motors' management turmoil.
Liz Balmaseda
For her commentary from Haiti about deteriorating political and social conditions and her columns about Cuban-Americans in Miami.
Michael Dirda
For his book reviews.