MUSIC

Winning Music: Richard Wernick of Media, Pa., the Philadelphia Orchestra’s new-music adviser, and Donald Crockett of La Canada, who teaches composition at USC, were the top winners in the annual Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, given Sunday in Washington. The competition this year was for new chamber music works. Wernick, 57, won the first-place award and $5,000 for his String Quartet No. 4, which was performed Sunday by the Emerson String Quartet. Crockett, 40, took second place and $2,500 for his “Celestial Mechanics” for oboe and string quartet, played at the Kennedy Center by members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. “Celestial Mechanics” received its world premiere in March at Occidental College.