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:
“Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle, dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.”
—Richard Shuckburg (1756–1818)
“Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man’s morning work in this world?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.”
—André Malraux (1901–1976)