Talk:Avery Fisher Prize

It seems that despite the best intentions of editors, winners of the Career Grant (a lesser award than the Avery Fisher Prize) are added to this list from time to time. This is an understandable error, as "Avery Fisher Prize" is used in some bios of artists who won the smaller award, and even a New York Times article from 1976 announces that "Ursula Oppens and Paul Shenly [sic], pianists; Ani Kavafian, violinist, and Heidi Lehwalder, harpist, have been named recipients of the first Avery Fisher Prizes." However, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E2DA153CF936A35756C0A96F958260 a later (1999) Times article] nicely clears up any confusion or ambiguity. I have added an "invisible" comment on the article's edit page alerting editors to this matter. Emoll (talk) 21:41, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

NO. They were the first winners of the Avery Fisher Prize. It was later after the winners began to have much more publicity and bigger careers that they tried to erase the previous winners by changing the name of their award to a Career Grant. It was not that. It was THE Avery Fisher Prize. What they did was extremely dishonest and harmful. I know this because I know one of those winners, and they had a meeting over this, and were somehow appeased in having the value of their prizes lowered. Heidi Lehwalder's winning performance included the New York Philharmonic. No one else has had that honor. She was more exceptional as a harpist than any subsequent winner on their instrument. She was truly phenomenal, like Vladimir Horowitz, and she was proclaimed by critics as "the harp Horowitz." There were other winners besides these four, before the awards were diminished. Please get the facts and rewrite the entry. I would if I had all the prior winners names. I think David Krakauer was another one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.165.70.120 (talk) 03:34, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

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