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 The Consul , by Gian-Carlo Menotti
Produced at the Barrymore Theater, New York.
The Jury
The Jury
Chalmers Clifton
Isadore Freed
Otto Luening
Winners in Music
Virgil Thomson
Released in 1948 by Robert Flaherty Productions.
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.
Leo Sowerby
Commissioned by the Alice M Ditson Fund, first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945.
1950 Prize Winners
James T. Berryman
For "All Set for a Super-Secret Session in Washington."
Carl M. Saunders
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.