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:
“O I shall hear skull skull,
Hear your lame music,
Believe music rejects undertaking,
Limps back.”
—Owen Dodson (b. 1914)
“For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“And in the next instant, immediately behind them, Victor saw his former wife.
At once he lowered his gaze, automatically tapping his cigarette to dislodge the ash that had not yet had time to form. From somewhere low down his heart rose like a fist to deliver an uppercut, drew back, struck again, then went into a fast disorderly throb, contradicting the music and drowning it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)