Show Sheffield Awarded By Composers just couldn't believe Now It s beginning to dawn on me a little said Ralph who was named winner in the choral division of the National Composition Contest for Young earlier this Sheffield captured the acclaim of such competent judges as Walter Vincent and Norman Dello Joio with two works for As texts he used Washington Irving's of the and Richard Jeffrey's The National Federation of Musicians Clubs and who sponsor the awarded Ralph the first The which is held consists of three and solo It is open to writers under Sheffield stepped into the public eye as a rising young composer last year when he won a prize at the Utah State Fair with his first real A work for full The winning choral compositions were performed by the University during the school The judge in the national contest used the manuscripts alone rather than recordings to the Besides doing graduate work at the University and teaching private applied music Sheffield finds time to continue his He is presently working on a new series of |