Music
- 2006 — Stephen Sondheim
- 2003 — Ned Rorem
- 2000 — Lukas Foss
- 1997 — Gunther Schuller
- 1994 — Hugo Weisgall
- 1991 — David Diamond
- 1988 — Milton Babbitt
- 1985 — Leonard Bernstein
- 1982 — William Schuman
- 1976 — Samuel Barber
- 1971 — Elliott Carter
- 1966 — Virgil Thomson
- 1961 — Roger Sessions
- 1956 — Aaron Copland
- 1951 — Igor Stravinsky
- 1947 — John Alden Carpenter
- 1942 — Ernest Bloch
- 1938 — Walter Damrosch
- 1928 — George W. Chadwick
- 1919 — Charles Martin Loeffler
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“A man in all the world’s new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
One who the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)