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Chamber Music & Norman Dello Joio

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I n the cool of the night timeThe clocks pick off the pointsAnd the mainsprings loosen.They will need windingOne of these days.Rabelais, in red boards—Walt Whitman in green,Hugo in ten-cent paper covers:Here they stand on shelvesIn the cool of the night timeAnd there is nothingTo be said against them...” Carl Sandburg, ‘Cornhuskers’, 1918 (one of the texts/epigrams for Dello Joio’s 1940 ‘Suite for Piano’, premiered at Carnegie Hall on 09-MAR-1941).The lyricism of Norman Dello Joio, who died last week at age 95 on 24-JUL, is treasured by all who have performed or listened to his works.

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