Chuck Berry, Peter Sellars to receive Polar Music Prizes The Polar Music Prize, music's equivalent of the Nobel Prize, will go to two Americans this year: rock 'n' roll icon Chuck Berry and theater/opera director Peter Sellars. Both laureates will be presented with the awards by King Carl XVI of Sweden at a gala Aug. 26 in Stockholm. The world's most prestigious music prize was founded 25 years ago by Stig "Stikkan" Anderson, ABBA's publisher, lyricist and ...