Word: joio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's War Memorial Opera House last week, the Ford Foundation got the first dividend on its $950,000 grant to U.S. composers for 18 new operas: the premiére of Norman Dello Joio's Blood Moon. Judged by critical response, Blood Moon was a bad bargain. "It does not send you out singing," complained the Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein. The Examiner's Alexander Fried was more biting. Blood Moon, said he, hovered "between an ambitious grand opera manner and light-opera clich...
...opening performance, Norman Dello Joio's incidental music was often highly obtrusive, especially the brass tuckets. The softer portions, such as the supernatural music and the funeral music for Antony, are also of far better quality...
Norman Dello Joio, song and opera composer