The Saint of Bleecker Street is presented here in a recording released by Heristal Entertainment.
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).
The Saint of Bleecker Street, by Gian-Carlo Menotti
For an opera first performed at the Broadway Theater, New York, December 27, 1954.
Winning Work
The Jury
The Jury
Chalmers Clifton
Irving Kalodin
Willard Rhodes
Winners in Music
Quincy Porter
First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954. This was one of the works commissioned under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation for new American compositions for orchestra, or soloists and orchestra.
Gail Kubik
Performed at Town Hall, January, 7, 1952.
Douglas S. Moore
Produced by Columbia Opera Workshop, March 28, 1951.
1955 Prize Winners
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
For a cartoon published on June 8,1954 entitled, "How Would Another Mistake Help?" showing Uncle Sam, bayoneted rifle in hand, pondering whether to wade into a black marsh bearing the legend "French Mistakes in Indo-China." The award is also given for distinguished body of the work of Mr. Fitzpatrick in both 1954 and his entire career.
Royce Howes
For an editorial on "The Cause of a Strike," impartially and clearly analyzing the responsibility of both labor and management for a local union's unauthorized strike in July, 1954, which rendered 45,000 Chrysler Corporation workers idle and unpaid. By pointing out how and why the parent United Automobile Workers' Union ordered the local strike called off and stating that management let dissatisfaction get out of hand, the editorial made a notable contribution to public understanding of the whole program of the respective responsibilities and relationships of labor and management in this field.