Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: David del Tredici Message-ID: <1544@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 10:14:30 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1544 Posted: Fri Aug 23 10:14:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:09:55 EDT Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 21 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