Norman Dello Joio
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Norman Dello Joio (January 24, 1913-2007) was an American composer whose output spanned more than half a century and who received the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.
Life
Dello Joio was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to Italian immigrants. At age 14, he began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York. Casimiro's father, Casimiro, was an organist, pianist, part-time arranger, and vocal coach, and he worked with many opera artists from the Metropolitan Opera. He began teaching Norman piano at the age of four. Norman began studying organ with his godfather, Pietro Yon, who was the organist at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in his adolescence. He received a scholarship to the Juilliard School in 1939, where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar.
He served as an organist at St. Anne's Church as a student, but he soon decided that he did not want to make his living as an organist. He began studying with Paul Hindemith, who encouraged him to pursue his own lyrical passion rather than sacrificing it to atonal systems in 1941.
He has received many awards and acclaim for his work. He was a prolific composer in a variety of genres, but his choral music was perhaps his best known. The Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn, which was made for the Michigan State University Wind Ensemble and has been performed thousands of times around the world, might be Dello Joio's best known work in the wind ensemble style. Dello Joio has written many pieces for high school and professional string orchestra, including the difficult piece Choreography: Three Dances for String Orchestra. He began working with Martha Graham, who wrote many works, including Diversion of Angels and Seraphic Dialogue, a recomposition for his Symphony's chamber orchestra of Saint Joan, in 1948.
He received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1957 for his Meditations on Ecclesiastes; he appeared first at the Juilliard School on April 20, 1956. In 1948, Variations, Chaconne, and Finale received the New York Critics Circle Award. In the first movement of his Piano Sonata No. 1, it is a complete and varying interpretation. 3.
Dello Joio's contribution to the 1964 NBC television special The Louvre earned the Emmy Award for the "most outstanding music written for television in the 1964-1965 Season." Scenes from The Louvre, by the composer, was a five-movement suite for wind band. Baldwin-Wallace College commissioned the suite for their symphonic band, and it was premiered on March 13, 1966 with the composer conducting.
He taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1944 to 1950, as well as at Mannes College of Music. He has also served as a professor and dean at Boston University's College of Fine Arts. He resigned in 1978 and moved to Long Island. He left his personal manuscripts and papers at the Wayback Machine, which is located in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Despite infirmities, Dello Joio remained active as a composer until his final years, playing chamber, choral, and even orchestral music. On July 24, 2008, he died in his sleep at his home in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 95.