Piston Receives Music Award

Professor Walter H. Piston, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music, this week received the 1953 Naumberg Award for his Fourth Symphony. The award provides funds to enable Piston to have a major orchestra record his work.

The award was made by the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation, an organization dedicated to the furtherance of contemporary music.

He wrote his Fourth Symphony late in 1950 and in early 1951. He first performed the work in March, 1951.

Piston said the relation between the names of his chair and the foundation is purely coincidental.

Piston graduated summa cum laude from the College in 1924 and was awarded Harvard's John Knowles Paine Fellowship from 1924-26.