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Benjamin H. Danks Award

Upon his death in 1930, Roy Lyndon Danks left an endowment in honor of his father to encourage young talent. Since 2003, the Academy has given an annual prize of $20,000 in rotation to a composer of ensemble works, a playwright, and a writer.

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