MUSIC
Grawemeyer Award: Karel Husa has won the 1993 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, worth $150,000. It will be announced today by the University of Louisville. Husa, 71, received the award for his Cello Concerto, which was commissioned by the Frank Kerze Jr. Fund and given its premiere at Ambassador Auditorium in 1989 by Lynn Harrell, with the USC Symphony conducted by Daniel Lewis. Husa also received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his String Quartet No. 3, and the first Sudler Prize in 1983 for his Concerto for Wind Ensemble.
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