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).
Music for the film Louisiana Story , by Virgil Thomson
Released in 1948 by Robert Flaherty Productions.
The Jury
The Jury
Chalmers Clifton
Henry Cowell
Beveridge Webster
Winners in Music
Walter Piston
First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston in January 1948.
Charles Ives
First performed by Lou Harrison and Chamber Orchestra in New York in April 1946.
Leo Sowerby
Commissioned by the Alice M. Ditson Fund; first performed by the Schola Cantorum in New York, April 1945.
Aaron Copland
A ballet written for and presented by Martha Graham and group, commissioned by Mrs. E. S. Coolidge, first presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. October, 1944.
1949 Prize Winners
Lute Pease of the Newark Evening News
For "Who Me?"
Herbert Elliston of The Washington Post
For distinguished editorial writing during the year.