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
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.
Elliott Carter
First performed at the Juilliard School of Music, March 25, 1960.
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.