Salvatore Dell'Isola

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Salvatore Dell'Isola

Salvatore Dell'Isola (January 4, 1901 – March 13, 1989) was a

Tony Award as music director of Flower Drum Song
.

Life and career

Dell'Isola was born in

RKO.[1] He began his professional conducting career on the radio and in vaudeville shows. In the 1920s, he was engaged as the conductor of the RKO orchestra and played the violin in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for ten years.[2]

He was hired by Rodgers and Hammerstein to conduct a touring production of Oklahoma! in the mid-1940s.[2] Dell'Isola first music directed on Broadway for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro in 1947. His other Broadway musicals were South Pacific (1949); Me and Juliet (1953); On Your Toes (1954 revival); Ankles Aweigh (1955); Pipe Dream (1955), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director; and Flower Drum Song, (1958), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director. He also conducted for national tours of some of these shows and a European tour of Oklahoma!.[1]

He also served as musical director for many productions at the

New York Philharmonic Orchestra Rodgers and Hammerstein concerts for 16 years. He also conducted on the 1950s TV program Opera Cameos and, over the course of his career, conducted opera performances, musicals, symphonies and chamber ensembles in the New York area.[1] His work can be heard on numerous recordings.[3]

Dell'Isola continued to conduct through the 1980s

West Islip, New York, at the age of 88.[2]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0815307136
    accessed January 29, 2013
  2. ^ a b c d "Salvatore Dell'Isola, Musical Director, 88", The New York Times, March 16, 1989, accessed January 29, 2013
  3. ^ Salvatore Dell'Isola at Allmusic, accessed January 29, 2013

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