sentences:  Avshalomov received the Ditson Fellowship in Composition following World War II and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951.In 1953 he was recognized by the New York Music Critics Circle for his choral work "Tom o' Bedlam".Other awards include a Bloch Award, Naumburg Recording Award, Ditson Conductor's Award in 1965, Governor's Arts Award, and American Symphony Orchestra League Award.