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Is this a different competition? My memory (again): I have "Song of the Bayou" by Rube Bloom and I foget the other piece, each on one side of a 12" Victor record as well as the sheet music to the Bloom with a note about his prize on it. I'll dig out the rest of the data if anyone wants. Steve Smolian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alec McLane" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] RCA symphonic work competition - 1929 > There were actually only 4 composers because Robert Russell Bennett was > awarded 2/5 of the prize. Here's from the liner notes to a Naxos recording > of Bennett's _Abraham Lincoln_ (quoted at > http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559004&catNum=559004&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English): > > __________________________ > In Paris and Berlin in 1927-28, on a Guggenheim Scholarship, he noticed an > RCA Victor competition with a prize of 25,000 dollars for an outstanding > orchestral composition, with a small prize for a lighter piece of music. > He submitted the two works on this disc - the patriotic Abraham Lincoln > and the abstract orchestral painting of Sights and Sounds. Both pieces > were scored for an enormous band of musicians and are of large > proportions. > > RCA Victor's jury consisted of Leopold Stokowski, Serge Koussevitzky, > Frederick Stock, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff. They decided no work was > better than any other to win outright and awarded five prizes to Aaron > Copland's Dance Symphony, Louis Gruenberg's Symphony, Ernst Bloch's > Helvetia and two 5,000 dollar awards to Bennett's pieces. > > Despite their huge orchestral forces, Bennett's prizewinners were then > published. Abraham Lincoln was first performed by Stokowski and the > Philadelphia Orchestra in October 1931, with a second performance given a > fortnight later at the dedication of the Juilliard School's new > auditorium. For this, Bennett wrote his own programme notes, drawn from > below. > ___________________________ > > Alec > > At 11:19 AM 4/17/2006, Paul Charosh wrote: >> >> >>In 1929, RCA Victor offered a prize of $25,000 for a new symphonic work. >>The >>prize was divided among five composers. Copland was one; he received >>$5,000 >>for his submission. >> >>How to find out who were the other four recipients? Also, who at >>RCA/Victor >>was in charge of the competition? Can one find out who were the judges? >>Can >>one find out who submitted works? >> >>Paul Charosh > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Alec McLane > Scores & Recordings/ > World Music Archives Phone: (860) 685-3899 > Olin Library Fax: (860) 685-2661 > Wesleyan University mailto:[log in to unmask] > Middletown, CT 06459 http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/srhome/srdir.htm > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.2/314 - Release Date: 4/16/2006 > >