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David del Tredici

Born:
Mar 16, 1937

  • Genre: Classical
  • Instrument: Piano, Main Performer, Editing

Biography

An American composer of music based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and utilizing many different musical styles. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide

Representative Albums:

Steps/Haddocks' Eyes, Secret Music: A Songbook, Alice Symphony

Similar Artists:

John Corigliano

Influences:

Andrew Imbrie, Roger Sessions

Followers:

Orlando Jacinto Garcia
 
 
Music Encyclopedia: David Del Tredici

(b Cloverdale, ca, 16 March 1937 ). American composer. He studied at Berkeley and Princeton, and taught at Harvard (1966-72), Boston University (1973-84) and the City University of New York (1984-). Since 1968 he has produced a large cycle of polystylistic works based on Lewis Carroll's Alice books; they include An Alice Symphony (1969-75) and the four-part Child Alice (1977-81).


 
Columbia Encyclopedia: Del Tredici, David
(dĕl trədē'chē) , 1937–, American composer, b. Cloverdale, Calif. Originally a pianist, he made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony at 16, and studied composition with Darius Milhaud (1958). He taught at Harvard (1966–72) and Boston Univ. (1973–84) before joining the faculty of the City Univ. of New York in 1984. Del Tredici has composed for orchestra (sometimes including “folk” instruments), chamber groups, piano, and accompanied voice. His early works, e.g., I Hear an Army (1964) and Syzygy (1966), are in an atonal modernist idiom and largely inspired by the verbal pyrotechnics of James Joyce. For some two decades Del Tredici manifested an obsession with Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, composing many pieces inspired by them. Usually melodic and popular with audiences, these works include An Alice Symphony (1969, rev. 1976), Final Alice (1976), In Memory of a Summer Day (1980, Pulitzer Prize), and Haddock's Eyes (1986). Since the mid-1980s many of the openly gay composer's songs and song cycles, e.g., Gay Life (2001) and Wondrous the Merge (2003), have incorporated poems that celebrate homosexual love; his style has become lusher and more romantic.
 
Wikipedia: David Del Tredici

David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is a contemporary composer.

After making his piano debut with the San Francisco Symphony at 17, he went on to receive a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.F.A. in 1964 from Princeton University, studying with composers Earl Kim, Seymour Shifrin and Roger Sessions.

His early work drew from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for inspiration, covering a wide variety of musical styles and forms. He was awarded a Pulitzer prize in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day", the first part of Child Alice. Themes of his later works include literature -- notably, Victorian works, contemporary poets, and the works of James Joyce, Allen Ginsberg, Rumi, Federico García Lorca, Thom Gunn, Paul Monette, Colette Inez, and Bram Stoker -- his own personal stories, and his life as a homosexual.

While trained in serial technique, Del Tredici's works are rooted in tonality; he is one of the most adamant proponents of neoromanticism, with a desire to revive tonality in contemporary music.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, he is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Woodrow Wilson fellowship, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, a Friedheim Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His works are regularly commissioned by major orchestras in America and abroad. His work, "On Wings of Song," was premiered in New York City in 2004 as part of the Riverside Opera Ensemble's 20th Anniversary Concert.

Notable works include:

  • Six Songs for voice and piano (text by James Joyce) (1959)
  • An Alice Symphony (1969)
  • Final Alice, an opera in concert form for soprano, folk ensemble, and orchestra (1976)
  • Child Alice ("In Memory of a Summer Day", "Happy Voices", "In the Golden Afternoon", "Quaint Events") for soprano and orchestra (1980 - 81)
  • Gay Life (1996-2000)
  • The Spider and The Fly for high soprano, high baritone, and orchestra (1998)

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