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, Three thousand dollars ($3,000).
Whispers Out of Time, by Roger Reynolds
Premiered on December 11, 1988, at Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
Nominated as finalists in Music in 1989:
Premiered on April 17, 1988, at the 92nd Street Y, New York City
Premiered on October 27, 1988, in Philadelphia.
The Jury
Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University
Vivian Fine
Retired Professor of Music, Bennington College
Harvey Sollberger
Professor of Music & Director, New Music Ensemble, Indiana University
First complete performance by Marc-André Hamelin, pianist, on March 30, 1987 at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Premiered by the Cantata Singers and Ensemble on November 21, 1986, at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
Premiered on October 2, 1985 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.
Premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra on January 17, 1985.
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