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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).

Piano Concerto No. 1 , by Samuel Barber

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

The Jury

Miles Kastendieck

Critic, New York Journal American and Christian Science Monitor

Irving Kolodin

Music Editor, Saturday Review

Winners in Music

Robert Ward

For an opera in three acts, libretto by Bernard Stambler, based on the play by Arthur Miller. First performed at New York City Center, on October 26, 1961 by the New York City Opera Company.

Walter Piston

First performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.

John LaMontaine

First performed in Washington, D.C. by the National Symphony Orchestra on November 25, 1958.

1963 Prize Winners

Frank Miller

For a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: "I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"

Ira B. Harkey

For his courageous editorials devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.