sentences:  A prolific and productive composer, Bezanson won several prestigious awards and received commissions from, among others, Dimitri Mitropoulos, who commissioned a piano concerto in 1952.His most famous work is perhaps the opera "Golden Child", written in 1960 to a libretto by Paul Engle.The work was commissioned by the NBC Opera Theatre and first performed on television on the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" program.