Quartet No. 3 is presented here in a 1994 Albany Records recording (released in 2006) by the Boston Composers String Quartet.
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
The Jury
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
Patrick B. Oliphant
For "They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table...Will They?" Published February 1, 1966.
Eugene Patterson
For his editorials during the year.