songs, including "Tell Me, Oh Blue Blue Sky"; many of these songs are now staples of vocal recitalists' repertoire. Though it was initially his vocal and operatic works that earned him greatest renown, Giannini also composed seven symphonies (only the last five were numbered), concerti, and chamber music. During the last eight years of his life he composed five works for wind band and, ironically, today they are his most widely performed compositions. One of them, his Symphony No. 3 (1958) has become a staple of the band repertoire. Despite the wide range of his output, little of his music is in the active repertoire. However, today a representative sample of all aspects of his work is available on recording. Giannini died in New York City on November 28, 1966, at the age of 63. Selected works Stabat mater (1922), SATB and orchestra "Tell Me, O Blue, Blue Sky" (1927), voice/piano String Quartet (1930) Suite (1931), orchestra Piano Quintet (1932) Lucedia (1934), opera, libretto K. Flaster Piano Concerto (1935) Symphony ‘In memoriam Theodore Roosevelt’ (1935) Organ Concerto (1937) Triptych (1937), soprano choir and strings IBM Symphony (1937), orchestra Requiem (1937), choir and orchestra The Scarlet Letter (1938), opera, libretto Flaster after Nathaniel Hawthorne Beauty and the Beast (1938), radio opera in one act Blennerhassett (1939), radio opera in one act Sonata No. 1 (1940), violin and piano "Sing to My Heart a Song" (c. 1942), voice/piano Sonata No. 2 (1944), violin and piano Variations on a Cantus firmus (1947), piano The Taming of the Shrew (1950), opera, libretto by Giannini and D. Fee after Shakespeare Symphony No. 1 (1950) Divertimento No. 1 (1953), orchestra Symphony No. 2 (1955), orchestra Prelude and Fugue (1955), string orchestra Fantasia for Band (1963), band Preludium and Allegro (1958), symphonic band Symphony No. 3 (1958), symphonic band Symphony No. 4 (1959), orchestra The Medead (1960), soprano and orchestra The Harvest (1961), opera, libretto Flaster Divertimento No. 2 (1961), orchestra Antigone (1962), soprano and orchestra Psalm cxxx (1963), bass/cello and orchestra Sonata for Flute and Piano (1964), flute/piano Variations and Fugue (1964), symphonic band Symphony No. 5 (1965) Servant of Two Masters (1966), opera, libretto B. Stambler, after C. Goldoni Footnotes References Further reading External links Sound samples at walter-simmons.com North Carolina School of the Arts history 1903 births 1966 deaths 20th-century classical composers American male classical composers American classical composers Manhattan School of Music faculty