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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: David del Tredici
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:14:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:14:30 1985
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Last week I heard a live performance of Del Tredici's Happy Days
(which is the middle section of Child Alice, Part 2) played by
the Harvard Chamber Orchestra and was quite impressed.  It even
made me go back & listen to my copy of In Memory of a Summer Day
(the first piece of the Alice series) which I'd earlier dismissed
as dreck.

Has anyone heard any of the other Alice pieces (like Final Alice
for example), or any of the eariler series of compositions based
on texts from James Joyce?  

To explain: Del Tredici has devoted his entire output first to
settings of Joycean texts, and more recently (since reading Lewis
Carroll's Alice books in 1968) to musical pieces (orchestral, often
with soprano) based on various parts of the Carroll books.  For
example, In Memory of a Summer Day uses a poem of the same name
which is prefaced to Alice in Wonderland.


					Regards,
					Ron Rizzo