Bispham Memorial Medal Award
The Bispham Memorial Medal Award was an award for operas written in English, named for baritone David Bispham, who was a great proponent of performing opera in English in the United States. It was traditionally awarded to American composers, frequently for an opera on an American subject. It was funded, in part, by composer Eleanor Everest Freer, who was also one of its recipients. Other recipients include:
- Henry Hadley
- Victor Herbert
- Charles Sanford Skilton (for Kalopin)
- Alberto Bimboni (for Winona)
- Deems Taylor
- Howard Hanson (for Merry Mount)
- George Antheil
- Ernst Bacon
- Charles Wakefield Cadman
- Walter Damrosch
- George Gershwin (for Porgy and Bess)
- Louis Gruenberg (for The Emperor Jones)
- Mary Carr Moore (for Narcissa)
- Otto Luening
- Frederick Shepherd Converse (for The Pipe of Desire)
- Ernest Trow Carter (for The White Bird)
- Alberto Franchetti (for Namiko-San)
- Theodore Stearns
- Frederick Jacobi (for The Prodigal Son)
- Simon Bucharoff (for Sakahra)
- Quinto Maganini (for The Argonauts)
- Jane van Etten (for Guido Ferranti)
- Bernard Rogers (for The Marriage of Aude)
- W. Franke Harling (for A Light from St. Agnes)
- Clarence Cameron White (for Ouanga!)
- Ralph Lyford (for Castle Agrazant)
- Francesco Bartolomeo de Leone (for Alglala)
- David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition. New York; Hill and Wang, 1963.
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