Norman Dello Joio
Norman Dello Joio ( born January 24, 1913 in New York City; † July 24, 2008 in East Hampton, New York) was an American composer.
Dello Joio came from an Italian organist family. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the Yale School of Music and 1941 was studied composition with Paul Hindemith. From 1934 to 1940 he was organist at St. Ann 's Church in New York, then director of a ballet company. From 1945 to 1950 he taught composition at Sarah Lawrence College and in 1957 he became professor of composition at the Mannes College of Music. At Boston University he taught from 1972 until 1978. From 1959 to 1973 he headed the project for the Ford Foundation Contemporary Music. In 1957 he won the Pulitzer Prize for composition Meditations on Ecclesiastes, the 1965 Emmy Award for the soundtrack to The Louvre.