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:
“Since a man must bring
To music what his mother spanked him for
When he was two ...”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)
“Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
And by that music let us all embrace,
For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
A second time do such a courtesy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)