Word: joio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plantation-owning spinster, decided that a musical tribute would be just the thing to mark the occasion. Trouble is, she conceded, "we are as far removed from the great world of music as if we lived on the rings of Saturn." So Miss Peter, 73, persuaded Composer Norman Dello Joio to write a special work for the sesquicentennial, then hired Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra to come to Little Rock to play it. She mortgaged a small portion of her land to foot the $60,000 bill, meticulously planned the concert to the last detail (even making sure that...
Allen Shawn's Song on a text by Maikov seemed a poor work obliterated by unacceptable singing. The piece consisted largely of a tawdry Dello Joio scherzo but provided neither beauty nor interest. It was especially unsuccessful in the registration and duration of its vowels...
...life in an decipherable moment of ineffable unity. And so, rowing Endgame on top of Presidential Power, and ling the ineluctable pull of some Taoist-Maoist dooms against my Captain Shotover-Thomist faith, I ded for Sanders to hear the Stravinsky Mass, and oral works by Britten and Dello Joio in honor of the atron saint of music...
...OTHER TWO WORKS. Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia, and Dello Joio's To St. Cecilia, were surpassingly unremarkable. The only marginally interesting section of the Britten piece, which uses a problemmatical Auden text, was a Queen Mab Scherzo passage affording relief from the "flickering flames" of "Blonde Aphrodite." The unidentified soprano soloist thrilled us with another seismic performance whose beauty might be compared to an autumnal wheat field methodically bending to the breeze. Mr. Dello Joio, whose star has been rising ever since his epochal Air Power brought home the Caligulan glory of the air force to the musically...
Conductor James Walker assembled a concert program that was sophisticated by anyone's standards. Except for the Sousa-like Emblem of Unity at the beginning, the pieces performed were thoroughly twentieth-century, ranging in date from Kurt Weill's Kleine Dreigroschen-musik (1929) to Dello Joio's Variations on a Medieval Tune...