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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).

Music in "Giants in the Earth" , by Douglas S. Moore

Produced by Columbia Opera Workshop, March 28, 1951.

The Jury

Chalmers Clifton

Norman Lockwood

Winners in Music

Walter Piston

First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, January, 1948.

Charles Ives

First performed by Lou Harrison and Chamber Orchestra in New York, April, 1946.

1951 Prize Winners

Arthur Krock

The Advisory Board on the Pulitzer Prizes as a policy does not make any award to an individual member of the Board. In 1951, the Board decided that the outstanding instance of National Reporting done in 1950 was the exclusive interview with President Truman obtained by Arthur Krock of The New York Times, while Mr. Krock was a Board member. The Board therefore made no award in the National Reporting category.