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 Concertante , by Gail Kubik
Performed at Town Hall, January, 7, 1952.
The Jury
The Jury
Chalmers Clifton
Norman Lockwood
Winners in Music
Douglas S. Moore
Produced by Columbia Opera Workshop, March 28, 1951.
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Produced at the Barrymore Theater, New York.
Virgil Thomson
Released in 1948 by Robert Flaherty Productions.
Walter Piston
First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, January, 1948.
1952 Prize Winners
Max Kase
For his exclusive exposures of bribery and other forms of corruption in the popular American sport of basketball, which exposures tended to restore confidence in the game's integrity.
No author named
For the news coverage of the great regional flood of 1951 in Kansas and Northwestern Missouri-a distinguished example of editing and reporting that also gave the advance information that achieved the maximum of public protection.