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For distinguished musical composition by an American in any of the larger forms including chamber, orchestral, choral, opera, song, dance, or other forms of musical theatre, which has had its first performance in the United States during the year, One thousand dollars ($1,000).

Quartet No. 3, by Leon Kirchner

First performed by the Beaux Arts Quartet in Town Hall, January 27, 1967.

Winning Work

Quartet No. 3 is presented here in a 1994 Albany Records recording (released in 2006) by the Boston Composers String Quartet.

The Jury

Miles Kastendieck(Chair)

Critic, New York World Journal Tribune and Christian Science Monitor

Paul Hume

Critic, Washington Post

Robert E. Ward*

Author and Composer

Winners in Music

Leslie Bassett

First performed in the United States by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on October 22, 1965.

Samuel Barber

Premiered with the Boston Symphony at Philharmonic Hall on September 24, 1962.

1967 Prize Winners