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Russo, William (1928– )| US composer. After study in Chicago, he worked with the Stan Kenton Orchestra 1950–54, as a trombonist and composer-arranger. He directed his own orchestra in New York 1958–61 and the London Jazz Orchestra 1962–65. |
Works Opera Land of Milk and Honey and Antigone (both Chicago, 1967), A Cabaret Opera (New York 1970), Aesop's Fables (1971), The Shepherds' Christmas (1979), Isabella's Fortune, The Pay-Off (1984) and Talking to the Sun (Chicago 1989). |
Ballet The World of Alcina (1954) and The Golden Bird (1984). |
Other two symphonies (1957–58); music for jazz bands, and rock cantatas; sonata for violin and piano (1986). |
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