Meditations on Ecclesiastes is presented here in a 2009 Kleos Classics recording by The Philharmonia Orchestra.
For distinguished musical composition in the larger forms of chamber, orchestral or choral music, or for an operatic work (including ballet), performed or published during the year by a composer of established residence in the United States, Five hundred dollars ($500).
Meditations on Ecclesiastes, by Norman Dello Joio
First performed at the Juilliard School of Music on April 20, 1956.
Winning Work
The Jury
The Jury
William Bergsma
Chalmers Clifton
Miles Kastendieck
Winners in Music
Ernst Toch
First performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 2, 1955.
Gian-Carlo Menotti
For an opera first performed at the Broadway Theater, New York, December 27, 1954.
Quincy Porter
First performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, March 17, 1954. This was one of the works commissioned under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation for new American compositions for orchestra, or soloists and orchestra.
1957 Prize Winners
Tom Little
For "Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?" Published on January 12, 1956.
Buford Boone
For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956.