Deja Vu is presented in a 2011 GIA Publications recording by the University of North Texas Wind Symphony.
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).
Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, by Michael Colgrass
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered by that orchestra October 20, 1977.
Winning Work
The Jury
The Jury
Robert E. Ward(Chair)*
Professor of Music, North Carolina School of the Arts
Karel Husa*
Kappa Alpha Professor of Music, Cornell University
Lester Trimble
Composer; Faculty, The Juilliard School
Winners in Music
Richard Wernick
For mezzo-soprano and orchestra, premiered at the Aspen Music Festival, July 19, 1976. It was commissioned by the Festival's Conference on Contemporary Music, with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ned Rorem
First performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on December 5, 1975. It is subtitled "Ten Etudes of Orchestra."
Dominick Argento
For medium voice and piano, commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, and premiered January 5, 1975 in Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis.
Donald Martino
A chamber music piece commissioned by the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation and first performed May 15, 1973 at Alice Tully Hall, New York City, by Speculum Musicae.
1978 Prize Winners
William Safire
For commentary on the Bert Lance affair.
Walter Kerr
For articles on the theater in 1977 and throughout his long career.