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...choosing his out-of-the-way programs is simple, if not 100% successful: "Any piece of music I get a bang out of, I think the public will like too." So far, he has given world premieres of David Diamond's Romeo and Juliet Suite, Norman Dello Joio's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Douglas Moore's Farm Journal (all commissioned by Scherman himself), and revived many a little-known smaller work by Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Stravinsky and Schbnberg. He has no fear of running out of things to play. Digging around in the "terrific repertoire...
...Dello Joio: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (Edward Vito, harp, with the Little Orchestra Society, Thomas K. Scherman conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). U.S. Composer Dello Joio (TIME, May 22) manages to write charmingly and effectively for the harp without sounding too much like either Debussy or Ravel. On the other side of the record, David Diamond's Music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" sounds like little more than warmed-over Prokofiev. Both performances and recordings: good...
...composer who can lure Manhattan critics into taking a 30-minute train ride to the suburbs to hear a piece of music must have something on the ball. Blade-thin, Manhattan-born Norman Dello Joio apparently is one composer who has. When New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College put on his first opera last week, Manhattan critics and admirers traveled right out to Bronxville to hear...
...visitors were not taking 37-year-old Composer Dello Joio entirely on faith. The lucid, lyrical music of his 30-odd choral works, chamber pieces and ballet scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
...Dello Joio: Ricercari for Piano and Orchestra (Germaine Smadja, pianist, with the Concert Hall Symphony Orchestra, Henry Swoboda conducting; Concert Hall Society, 1 side LP). A ricercare (literally: to seek out) was a 16th Century form which later grew into the fugue. U.S. Composer Norman Dello Joio, 37, finds a few clever switches of his own. Performance: good; recording: fair...