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David Del Tredici
(1937- )
"Perhaps this composer loves the place because of
life-long personal associations that started there. Isolation and contentment
produce tranquil friendships as well as passionate arts."
David Del Tredici
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Perhaps best know for his works inspired
by Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland, Del Tredici graduated from
the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University and studied
piano with Bernhard Abramowitsch and Robert Helps and composition with
Earl Kim, Seymour Shifrin and Roger Sessions. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in Music in 1980 for In Memory of a Summer Day, one of his
many works based upon Alice in Wonderland. From 1988 to 1990, Del
Tredici served as Composer-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic.
He is currently Distinguished Professor of Music at the City College of
New York.
His works include: String Trio (1959), The Last Gospel for
amplified rock group, chorus and orchestra (1967), PopPourri
(1968), Vintage Alice (1972), Adventures Underground (1973),
In
Wonderland (1975), Annotated Alice (1976), Final Alice
(1976), An Alice Symphony (1976), and March to Tonality for orchestra
(1985), Steps (1990) The Spider and the Fly (1998), Chana's Story (1998). |
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