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Composer Dello Joio, at least, seemed unconcerned. He is convinced that his frankly romantic music (The Ruby, The Triumph of St. Joan) has a delayed effect. "The people who work closely with my music get things you can't hear the first time," says he. "To quote Verdi, 'Time will decide...
...immigrant Italian organist, Dello Joio likes to think of himself as a spiritual descendant of Verdi. Blood Moon tells the story of Ninette Lafont, a beautiful octoroon actress who flees New Orleans on the eve of the Civil War to forget her doomed love for Raymond Barlac, a Southern aristocrat. The wide-ranging plot, based on Dello Joio's own scenario, gave Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian ample scope for lush sets that imparted a sense of grandeur to the opera's five scenes. American Soprano Mary Costa, who played Ninette, sang beautifully but seemed lost in the schmalz...
...conservative." He got no argument. "I don't like any opera in English," huffed one white-tie traditionalist, and most critics were upset that Dello Joio had used a 19th century idiom. Still, the opera had its redeeming features. If the music lacked the strength of a Verdi opera, it was consistently melodious, at times truly lyrical. If the plot was melodramatic, it gave hints of Dello Joio's gift for sustained drama, an essential gift for a writer of grand opera and a recompense of sorts for the Ford Foundation's handsome handout...
Your succinct article on operatic scores [Aug. 4] refers to my discovery of 27,000 "errors" between Verdi's finished manuscript of Falstaff and recent editions. I prefer to say "differences." for who knows exactly which are the errors? Should we call the posthumous changes, which rise to over 200 on a single page, revisions or falsifications? In Rigoletto, La donna é mobile began pianissimo in 1912 and forte in 1954, although Verdi died...
Beyond releasing the Verdi and Puccini manuscripts, the Italian government is considering obtaining an international agreement, welcomed by many publishers, to standardize critical editions of music, printed with a distinguishing type to show any editorial alterations to the composer's text...