The Second String Quartet is presented here in a 1975 Nonesuch Records recording by The Composers Quartet.
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 Jury
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.
Norman Dello Joio
First performed at the Juilliard School of Music on April 20, 1956.
Ernst Toch
First performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 2, 1955.
1960 Prize Winners
Garrett Mattingly
It is a first class history and a literary work of high order.
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.