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Commanding Appeal

Music by
David Del Tredici -
heard by
PATRIC STANDFORD

'... hugely enjoyable ...'

David Del Tredici: Vintage Alice; Dracula. © 2008 American Composers Forum

David Del Tredici, called by some 'the father of neo-romanticism', has been involved with Lewis Carroll's Alice now for forty years. It is difficult to understand the persistent stamina that would lead to such a concentration, for it all seems such a slightly based preoccupation for such study, but it is so, and it began in 1968 with Pop-Pourri. One important outcome was his reinvention of tonality...

Copyright © 17 September 2012 Patric Standford,
Suffolk UK

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DAVID DEL TREDICI: VINTAGE ALICE; DRACULA

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