Norman Dello Joio

American composer Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008) was born in New York to Italian immigrants. A student of Paul Hindemith at Yale, Dello Joio took Hindemith's advice to resist the pressure to depart from his essentially lyrical style and did so even as serial composition became an international standard. Dello Joio won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for his Meditation on Ecclesiastes for string orchestra and an Emmy for the television score The Louvre (1965). Dello Joio's opera The Triumph of St. Joan (1959), the Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (1963), and other works have joined the general repertoire at large. ~ Uncle Dave Lewis , All Music Guide