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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

Meditations on Ecclesiastes is presented here in a 2009 Kleos Classics recording by The Philharmonia Orchestra.

The Jury

William Bergsma

Chalmers Clifton

Miles Kastendieck

Winners in Music

Ernst Toch

First performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, December 2, 1955.

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

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.