Word: dello
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...point out that chamber music was returning to the living room, where it started, and to stage the presentation with informality befitting four musicians playing for their own enjoyment. Instead, in its grave, concert-hall atmosphere and the overearnest tone of introductions by Composer Norman Dello Joio, the TV men presented the music as if it were spinach-very good for you, but rather forbidding...
...second work was the Variations, Chaconne and Finale by Norman Dello Joio. It is a well-scored and serious work by one of our leading contemporary composers, and a good work for an amateur orchestra to perform, being neither too difficult nor too trivial in content. The orchestra played it well, and one particularly difficult variation received an unexpectedly virtuosic treatment...
...Poujade, convoyed by hundreds of his burly, leather-jacketed copains, and crying aloud against the "Jews and foreign interests" who had betrayed France in Algeria. Poujade was doing something he had sworn never to do: running for a seat in the National Assembly, which he calls "the biggest bor dello in France...
...program of music by Monteverdi, including Il Ballo Dello Ingrate, and several shorter pieces, was given Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in Fogg Museum. The depth and versatility of the Renaissance master was displayed in music covering a wide stylistic and emotional range, varying from poignancy, to austerity, to an ornate light-heartedness...
Satisfied that he has now captured Joan as he had hoped to, Composer Dello Joio is considering a new opera that tells "an intense love story-a story about love itself." Like Trial at Rouen, it will be on a large scale, for Dello Joio, the son of an Italian immigrant, likes to think of himself as a spiritual descendant of Verdi. It is possible that Dello Joio will emerge as the next important grand opera composer. He is already one of the few U.S. composers who can live solely on the income from his compositions...