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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).

Second String Quartet, by Elliott Carter

First performed at the Juilliard School of Music, March 25, 1960.

Winning Work

The Second String Quartet is presented here in a 1975 Nonesuch Records recording by The Composers Quartet.

The Jury

Alfred Kreymborg

Chalmers Clifton

Paul Henry Lang

New York Herald Tribune

Thomas C. Scherman

Little Orchestra Society, New York City

Winners in Music

John LaMontaine

First performed in Washington, D.C. by the National Symphony Orchestra on November 25, 1958.

Samuel Barber

An opera in four acts, libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. First presented January 15,1958, at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Ernst Toch

First performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 2, 1955.

1960 Prize Winners

Lenoir Chambers

For his series of editorials on the school integration problem in Virginia, as exemplified by "The Year the Schools Closed," published January 1, 1959, and "The Year the Schools Opened," published December 31, 1959.