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Norman Dello Joio
Norman Dello Joio (January 24, 1913 – July 24, 2008) was an American composer.
Life
He was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father was an organist, pianist, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the Metropolitan Opera. He taught Norman piano starting at the age of four. In his teens, Norman began studying organ with his godfather, Pietro Yon, who was the organist at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. In 1939, he received a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music, where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar. He was the father of American Olympic medalist (equestrian), Norman Dello Joio.
While he was a student, he worked as organist at St. Anne's Church, but he soon decided that he didn't want to make his living as an organist. In 1941, he began studying with Paul Hindemith, who encouraged him to follow his own lyrical bent, rather than sacrificing it to the atonal syst
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Norman Dello Joio
American composer (1913–2008)
This article is about the composer. For the equestrian, see Norman Dello Joio (equestrian).
Norman Dello Joio (January 24, 1913 – July 24, 2008) was an American composer active for over half a century. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957.
Life
Dello Joio was born in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father, Casimiro Dello Joio, was an organist, pianist, part-time composer, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the Metropolitan Opera.[1] He taught Norman piano starting at the age of four. In his teens, Norman began studying organ with his godfather, Pietro Yon, who was the organist at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. In 1939, he received a scholarship to the Juilliard School, where he studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar.[2]
While he was a student, he worked as organist at St. Anne's Church, but he soon decided that he didn't want to make hi
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New York-born composer Justin Dello Joio is the seventh generation of composer in the Dello Joio family and is currently the Faculty Composer-in-Residence.
Dello Joio’s music, including symphonic, opera, chamber, and solo works, has been performed and commissioned by some of the leading performers in the music world. The Boston Symphony and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France commissioned a piano concerto, Oceans Apart, for the legendary pianist Garrick Ohlsson, that premiered with Alan Gilbert conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall in 2023. Mr. Ohlsson has performed and recorded his solo piano music for Bridge Records. His one act opera, Blue Mountain, was commissioned, premiered, and recorded in Oslo, Norway, by Det Norske Blasensemble, and released on Bridge Records and received its U.S. premiere at the University of Connecticut. The Barlow Foundation commissioned a work for NY Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey. He has been performed, and/or commissioned, or recorded by the Detroit Symphony, The Lincoln Center Chamber Mus
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