Erik Darling, 74, the reedy-voiced guitarist and banjo player who deftly stepped in when Pete Seeger left the pioneering folk music group the Weavers, died of lymphoma Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Darling was perhaps best known for his hit "Walk Right In" and for his arrangement of the iconic Southern true-crime ballad "Tom Dooley," which inspired the Kingston Trio's recording of the song that topped the charts in 1958. He was a member of the Tarriers, known for its version of "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" -- the signature tune of Harry Belafonte.
Norman Dello Joio, 95, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer with a lyrical style who wrote works for orchestra and chorus as well as several operas and an Emmy Award-winning television score, died July 24 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y.
He wrote some of his best-known works in the 1940s and '50s, including "Variations, Chaconne and Finale," first performed by the New York Philharmonic in 1947.
Much of his repertoire was inspired by sacred scripture, religious poetry and the lives of Christian saints.
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