Awards
- 2006: Composer of the Year Award (Classical Recording Foundation)
- 2000: Alfred I Dupont Award
- 1992: Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, 2nd Place
- 1991: Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, 1st Place
- 1986: Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, 1st Place
- 1982: National Endowment for the Arts Composition Grant
- 1979: National Endowment for the Arts Composition Grant
- 1977: Pulitzer Prize in Music
- 1976: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1976: National Institute of Arts and Letters Music Award
- 1976: Naumberg Recording Award
- 1975: National Endowment for the Arts Composition Grant
- 1962-64: Ford Foundation Composition Grants
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