Composition Prizes
WO prizes for composition have just been announced. One is for young composers, sex unspecified, and the other is for women composers. Dr. Vaughan Williams, presiding at the hundredth studio recital of the Committee for the Promotion of New Music, announced that a grant of 2,000 dollars had been made to the committee by Koussivitzky Music Foundation of Boston, Mass., and that 1,000 dollars of it was to be divided equally between two young composers in a competition / for orchestral works of betwéen 15 and 30 minutes’ duration. The committee will act as organisers and adjudicators. The prize for women is being offered by the Society of Women Musicians. Fifty years ago it could hardly have happened, but times have changed since a woman’s music meant the pretty fiddle-faddles of Chaminade, Teresa del Riego, or the young Polish lady who wrote The Maiden’s Prayer. Dame Ethel Smyth has changed all that, and nowadays instead of the faery and ladylike we have string-quartets, or fugues for clarinet, viola, trombone and percussion. Works by Elizabeth Lutyens and Elizabeth Maconchy have represented Britain at foreign festivals, and the chamber music of Priaulx Rainier (from South Africa) and Phyllis Tate is being listened to to-day with atten-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 31
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212Composition Prizes New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 31
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