Talk:Avery Fisher Prize

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[edit] Avery Fisher Prize vs. Career Grant

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, 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)