AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                              217 a-e

Norman Dello Joio

with Ev Grimes

East Hampton, New York

June 13, 1989

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                                         pp. 1-10

growing up with opera and church music--musical training from his father--music as a career--experience with jazz band--study with godfather Pietro Yon--study at the Institute of Musical Art--attending Juilliard--attending concerts and opera performances--study with Gaston Detier at Institute--beginning of composing career at Juilliard--first piano work, The Concertino--studying with Hindemith at Tanglewood and at Yale--Hindemith as teacher--Vigil Strange--poetry of Walt Whitman.

Side b                                                                                                                        pp. 10-18

setting Shakespeare--teaching at Sarah Lawrence College--Town Hall Award--listenable quality of his music as reason for its success--film score for “Green Tree Stables”--The Mystic Trumpeter--Prelude to a Young Dancer--Prelude to a Young Musician--"Materials of Music" course at Sarah Lawrence--music director of dance company--music for ballet On Stage--working with Martha Graham--The Diversion of Angels--Seraphic Dialogue--writing for a dramatic or pictorial image--Duo Concertate--Concert Music for Orchestra--most often played works--Six Love Songs for Voice and Piano.

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 19-28

television scores--”Vanity Fair,” “The Louvre,” “Air Power”--Meditations on Ecclesiastes, winner of Pulitzer Prize--anecdotes about winning the Emmy and the Pulitzer--teaching at Mannes College--Contemporary Music Project funded by Ford Foundation--teaching--St. Joan works developed at Sarah Lawrence--television in the ‘50s--Prayers of Cardinal Newman--opera Blood Moon--Fantasy in Variations--travelling in Eastern Europe.

Side d                                                                                                                        pp. 28-36

Antiphonal Fantasy--From Every Horizon--Songs of Walt Whitman--Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn--Homage to Haydn--Evocations--Dean at Boston University--several teaching pieces--Of Crows and Clusters--Psalm of Peace--Lyric Fantasies for Viola and String orchestra--Stage Parodies--two masses--Colonial Ballads, Colonial Variants--transcribing orchestral works for band--Arietta, Caccia--works from 1979--The Concert Variations for Piano--Ballabili--Love Songs at Parting.

Side e                                                                                                                         pp. 37-38

Reflections on an Original Christmas Tune--piano works for students--The Nativity--his children and grandchildren.