Coolidge Prize

In Alexandria, Egypt, last week, a Czechoslovak composer opened his morning's mail, found a $1,000 check. Joseph Huttel had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize offered by the Library of Congress for a composition for piano and wind sextet. Contestants of 33 nationalities had submitted 135 scores. Prizeman Huettel's work chosen unanimously by five judges (Judges Georges Barrere, Philip Hale, Ernest Henry Schelling, Leopold Stokowski and Chief Carl Engel of the Music Division of the Library of Congress) will be played next October at the Festival of Chamber Music in Washington.