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 Canticle of the Sun , by Leo Sowerby
Commissioned by the Alice M Ditson Fund, first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945.
The Jury
The Jury
Winners in Music
Aaron Copland
A ballet written for and presented by Martha Graham and group, commissioned by Mrs. E. S. Coolidge, first presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October, 1944.
Howard Hanson
Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 3, 1943.
William Schuman
Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York.
1946 Prize Winners
Arnaldo Cortesi
For distinguished correspondence during the year 1945, as exemplified by his reports from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bruce Alexander Russell
For "Time to Bridge That Gulch."