Letters, Music and Drama Awards
- Fiction:
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
- Drama:
- All the Way Home by Tad Mosel (Obolensky)
- History:
- Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis (Princeton Univ. Press)
- Biography or Autobiography:
- Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald (Knopf)
- Poetry:
- Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
- Music:
- Symphony No. 7 by Walter Piston (Associated Music Publishers), first performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra on February 10, 1961, and commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.
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Famous quotes containing the words music and/or drama:
“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
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