POLAR MUSIC PRIZE

Prize Ceremony

2007 - Steve Reich and Sonny Rollins

2006 - Valery Gergiev and Led Zeppelin

2005 - Gilberto Gil and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

2004 - B. B. King and György Ligeti

2003 - Keith Jarrett

2002 - Sofia Gubaidulina and Miriam Makeba

2001 - Burt Bacharach, Robert Moog and Karlheinz Stockhausen

2000 - Isaac Stern and Bob Dylan

1999 - Iannis Xenakis and Stevie Wonder

1998 - Ravi Shankar and Ray Charles

1997 - Eric Ericson and Bruce Springsteen

1996 - Joni Mitchell and Pierre Boulez

1995 - Mstislav Rostropovitch and Elton John

1994 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Quincy Jones

1993 - Witold Lutoslawski and Dizzy Gillespie

1992 - Sir Paul McCartney and The Baltic States

Prize Ceremony 2001

Photo: © Micael Engström

The POLAR MUSIC PRIZE was presented on Monday the 14th of May for the tenth consecutive year.
The Prizewinners this year are Burt Bacharach, Robert Moog och Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The prize money is one million Swedish Crowns (approx US$ 100.000, € 110.000) to each Laureate.
They received their Prize from His Majesty The King of Sweden during a nationally-televised ceremony
at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm.

Each year, two Prizewinners are acknowledged but as the Prize celebrates its
tenth anniversary this year, three Laureates were being welcomed to Stockholm.

Click here to See the photos from the festivities

VIDEOCLIP FROM THE PRIZE CEREMONY AT BERWALDHALLEN, STOCKHOLM 2001 (SVT BROADCAST)
[ MODEM ] [ BROADBAND ] - Windows Media Player 7

SOUND SAMPLES FROM THE PRIZEWINNERS

BURT BACHARACH

All three tracks taken from the new album
"The Look of Love - The Burt Bacharach Collection"
on Warner Bros Records.

"Don't Make Me Over" - Dionne Warwick - Requires Real Player
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)Windswept Pacific Music Ltd./
Universal/MCA Music Ltd. Arranged & Conducted by Burt
Bacharach. Produced by Burt Bacharach & Hal David.
(P) 1962 Warner Bros. Records, Inc.

"Arthur's Theme" (The Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross - Requires Real Player
(Burt Bacharach/Carole Bayer Sager/Christopher Cross/Peter Allen)
Warner Chapell Music Ltd. (P) 1981 Warner Bros. Records, Inc.

"Let The Music Play" - The Drifters - Requires Real Player
(Burt Bacharach/Hal David)Windswept Pacific Music Ltd./
Universal/MCA Music Ltd. Arranged & Conducted by Gary
Sherman. Produced by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller.
(P) 1963 Atlantic Recording Corp.

ROBERT MOOG

Robert Moog describes the workings of the theremin and
the synthesizer and his relation to them. - Requires Real Player
Excerpt from a Swedish national radio (SR) broadcast on 15th May 1978.

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

"Zyklus" - Requires Real Player

"Klavierstück V" - Requires Real Player

Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen performed by
Johnny Axelsson (percussion) and Fredrik Ullén (piano)
on Caprice Records (P) & (C) catalogue no. CAP-21642, 2000.

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