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	David Del Tredici (Composer) - Short Biography
		However, Del Tredici achieved his greatest fame with a series of brilliant tone pictures after Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, in which he projected, in utter defiance of all modernistic conventions, overt tonal proclamations, fanfares, and pretty tunes that were almost embarrassingly attractive, becoming melodiouser and harmoniouser with each consequent tone portrait.
		David Del Tredici has also emerged as an eloquent voice in the gay community, and his most recent work has shifted away from the edged whimsy of Alice, and moved towards twentieth century American poetry, to the "urban contemporary-tormented relationships, personal transformations, and the joys and sorrows of gay life."
		Del Tredici derives the work's primary 12-note row from the first four pitches of the chorale melody, pitches identical to the first four notes of the whole-tone scale.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Lib/Del-Tredici-David.htm (1641 words)

	David Del Tredici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is a contemporary composer.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Del_Tredici (350 words)

	s e q u i t u r (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Del Tredici's James Joyce settings from 1965, is to represent hisearly style, with the world premiere of "Miz Inez Sez" as an example of his current approach.
		Del Tredici could remember their early and later works' being juxtaposed or, for that matter, sharing a concert program with their style changes as the common element.
		Del Tredici said of the effect of his defection from the atonal camp." Whereas before I had been a respectable composer, I became either a loved or a hated one.
	www.sequitur.org /review9900_02.html (2036 words)

	After hiatus, composer experiences 'wonderland' again
		The fact that Del Tredici was deliberately not writing in the austere, dissonance-laced serial style that dominated classical composition during much of the 20th century was one reason for its huge success, he believes.
		Del Tredici wasn't happy about the cuts, but he is eternally grateful that Solti suggested Barbara Hendricks, then at the start of her career, for the feisty Alice/Narrator.
		Del Tredici knew that he was running against the current with "Final Alice.'' At the time, younger composers who didn't write in a rigorously atonal voice could find themselves dismissed by influential, older composers.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/sho-sunday-ccm01.html (1169 words)

	DAVID DEL TREDICI: Two Song Cycles for voice and piano - Music & Arts CD-1152 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Del Tredici's most recent CD, released by Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), is a song collection entitled "Secret Music," which New Yorker critic Alex Ross, Fanfare's Robert Carl and critic-at-large Jason Serinus all hailed as one of the best new-music albums of the year 2001.
		Commenting on Del Tredici's new vocal outpouring, San Francisco critic Marilyn Tucker was moved to write that it "must surely herald a bright new era for the neglected tradition of song composition."
		Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter (1998/2001) with Hila Plitmann, sop.
	www.musicandarts.com /CDpages/CD1152d.html (250 words)

	Joyce - Music: David Del Tredici's Joyce songs
		First of all, it seems almost unfair to call these songs "settings." Del Tredici's pieces are as far from traditional settings as one can expect; he subjects the poems to a process of re-invention, deconstructing them to their basic elements and then assembling complex worlds of sound around the axes of Joyce's raw language.
		Del Tredici's lover is not moaning for a recently departed love; she is reliving a terrible abandonment perpetuated nightly upon her, her own fractured sanity itself the charging army.
		Del Tredici's 20's coincided, of course, with the Age of Webern.
	www.themodernword.com /joyce/music/del_tredici_joyce.html (4469 words)

	Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - david del tredici bio
		David Del Tredici is generally recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music.
		Del Tredici's most recent CD, released by Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), is a song collection entitled "Secret Music," which New Yorker critic Alex Ross, Fanfare's Robert Carl and critic-at-large Jason Serinus all hailed as one of the best new-music albums of the year 2001.
		A California native, Del Tredici began his musical career as (in his own words) "an old child prodigy." In 1937, he began piano studies at the relatively late age of 12 and studied principally with Bernhard Abramowitsch and, later, Robert Helps.
	www.cabrillomusic.org /2003/bios/del_tredici_bio.html (715 words)

	s e q u i t u r (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		David Del Tredici is recognized as America's foremost exponent of the return to tonality in composition.
		Del Tredici's fascination with the Alice in Wonderland books has yielded a surprising diversity of compositions -- from the spiky, witty settings of Pop- Pourri and Adventures Underground (which include folk and rock ensembles) to the extravagant, theatrical opera-cantata, Final Alice, and the lush, neo-romantic Child Alice.
		Del Tredici's many compositional honors include Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellowships, the Brandeis and Friedheim Awards, grants from the NEA, and election to The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.sequitur.org /p_deltredici.html (817 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Del Tredici, David
		Del Tredici was born on March 16, 1937, in Cloverdale, near Los Angeles.
		Del Tredici has taught at a number of institutions, including Harvard (1966-1972), the State University of New York at Buffalo (1972-1973), Boston University (1973-1984), the City University of New York (1984 to the present), and Yale (1999), as well as at the Manhattan School (1991-1993) and Juilliard (1993-1996).
		Del Tredici met his life partner Ray Warman in 1999; the couple held their commitment ceremony in 2000.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/del_tredici_d.html (906 words)

	Del Tredici, David Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		David Del Tredici - Includes photographs and a biography.
		David Del Tredici's Joyce Songs - An extended review of the CD including lyrics of the songs as well as liner notes and CD information.
		Catch the trade winds in your Del Tredici, David In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_D_Del_Tredici,_David.html (1636 words)

	Welcome to NEXT Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		At this point, the occasion for a drop into the sunny Del Tredici loft in the much-coveted WestbethÐartist housing in the former Bell Labs buildingÐshould be explained.
		Del Tredici takes a beat, relishing the story at this point, and says, "Well, I had on a dress." We all laugh and he continues, "And someone else had on a little dress." Kelly adds, "Faggots have forgotten how to play.
		Del Tredici points to a wall of his studio that's stacked, salon-style, with images.
	www.nextmagazine.net /features/bigbrother.shtml (1115 words)

	'Composer in Residence' concert honors musical pioneer - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Del Tredici was an outstanding composer in the style in which he was trained.
		Del Tredici's "Dracula" isn't based on Bram Stoker, but rather an amusing text by Alfred Corn written from the perspective of a neighbor who feels it's harmless to share pints of blood because she has so many.
		Del Tredici's importance begins with his own music, but certainly includes the encouragement to other composers to indulge their secret passion for beauty.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_116730.html (609 words)

	Greg Sandow -- David Del Tredici, Eos Ensemble, and Bang on a Can
		Del Tredici's "Dracula," given its premiere not long ago by the Eos Ensemble, a group that draws its own kind of younger, less classical audience to concerts of mostly modern works.
		Del Tredici's score that gave her the impetus, again giving older classical styles a fiendish twist, framing the world's most elegant vampire in a wry, antique, exotic light.
		Del Tredici's nostalgic musical style, which, by returning to classical music's past, itself comments on the innocence we've lost.
	www.gregsandow.com /del%20tredici.htm (1060 words)

	clevescene.com \| \| Night & Day \| Sex and the Single Vampire \| 1999-09-23
		Now avant-garde classical composer David Del Tredici has moved on to bloodsucking freaks with the release of Dracula, a tale of seduction and sensuality with a dark side.
		Del Tredici's Dracula was born after a 1996 trip to an artists' colony, where poet Alfred Korn gave him several of his books to read.
		When Del Tredici, more raspberry ripple than vanilla, gets a little spent, he cops a weekend feel at a group massage school in California, the Body Electric, where guests practice Tantric yoga, body massage, and open sexuality.
	www.clevescene.com /issues/1999-09-23/nd.html (545 words)

	AllRefer.com - David Del Tredici (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		David Del Tredici[del trudE´chE] Pronunciation Key, 1937–;, American composer, b.
		Del Tredici has composed for orchestra (sometimes including "folk" instruments), chamber groups, piano, and accompanied voice.
		Since the late 1960s, however, Del Tredici has manifested an epic obsession with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, composing many pieces inspired by these texts.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DelTredD.html (318 words)

	Music OK, words too risque for chamber festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		All Del Tredici's music will be heard at Saturday's concert, but most of the text will not, and the composer has asked that it not be promoted as a world premiere.
		Del Tredici said he believes that if the sex in the poem were between a man and a woman, the festival would allow it to be performed as written.
		Tocco said he told Del Tredici that his key objection to the poem was the explicit language that would be uttered at one of the festival's centerpiece concerts that caters to families.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/music/glf15_20030615.htm (1433 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		David Del Tredici's cycle "Chana's Song," with text by poet Chana Bloch, was performed with dramatic flair and lucid text articulation by mezzo-soprano Miriam Abramowitsch, with the composer accompanying at the piano.
		Although Del Tredici's music has become progressively more tonal since the mid-1970s, his is a fluid tonality, flowing colorfully among keys and modes.
		Del Tredici finds every corner of the mezzo-soprano voice, from extreme highs and lows (often juxtaposing the two), and from bright to richly dark.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/sfcmp2_11_3_98.html (653 words)

	Marcus Maroney - Sounds Like New: Del Tredici is Uptown?
		Let's also not forget the type of voice that Del Tredici calls for in his works, the specifics of which bring to mind a very similar type of voice preferred by many composers Gann calls "downtown".
		Del Tredici's scoring idiosyncrasies are present through all his works, right up through the extravagant percussion arsenal requested in The Spider and the Fly from 1998 (which also calls for amplified coloratura soprano and amplified baritone) and Gay Life.
		What I expliticly said was that Del Tredici can be told to use the conventional orchestra, and it's quite true that his first orchestral works, like Syzygy, were for more conventional forces.
	maroney.blogs.com /sounds_like_new/2005/03/del_tredici_is_.html (829 words)

	Joyce - Music: David Del Tredici
		Del Tredici began his studies at the University of California at Berkeley with Seymour Shifrin and continued work at Princeton University, where he studied with Roger Sessions, receiving his M.F.A. degree in 1964.
		Del Tredici's music moves stylistically "backward" from the academic serialism of his professional training to the tonal palette historically used prior to Schönberg.
		Del Tredici has also emerged as an eloquent voice in the gay community, and his most recent work has shifted away from the edged whimsy of Alice, and moved towards twentieth century American poetry, to the "urban contemporary-tormented relationships, personal transformations, and the joys and sorrows of gay life."
	www.themodernword.com /joyce/music/del_tredici.html (586 words)

	A Remaining Barrier Breached (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		David Del Tredici is one of the most successful and popular of contemporary American composers.
		Del Tredici is also one of the first—if not the first—openly gay composer of any note to set explicitly sexual gay poetry to music.
		Del Tredici’s music from this time, represented by “Syzygy” and the two sets of songs from the Deutsche Grammophon album, is atonal in style, but there is a sense of a yearning, surreptitious emotion that comes through clearly.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_408/aremainingbarrier.html (1193 words)

	Cleveland Chamber Symphony Concert
		Del Tredici explained in an interview with the conductor Richard Dufallo, why he was attracted to Lewis Carroll.
		Del Tredici continued, "Believe it or not, I actually love the accordion; to me at least, it always sounds funky in an orchestral setting.
		Soprano Hila Plitmann and composer/conductor David Del Tredici.
	www.henrydoktorski.com /misc/clevelandconcert.html (689 words)

	David Del Tredici, Nonpop New Music Composer
		David Del Tredici is recognized as America's foremost exponent of the return to tonality in composition.
		Del Tredici's fascination with the Alice in Wonderland books has yielded a surprising diversity of compositions -- from the spiky, witty settings of Pop- Pourri and Adventures Underground (which include folk and rock ensembles) to the extravagant, theatrical opera-cantata, Final Alice, and the lush, neo-romantic Child Alice.
		Del Tredici's many compositional honors include Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellowships, the Brandeis and Friedheim Awards, grants from the NEA, and election to The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.kalvos.org /deltred.html (847 words)

	1704600ED - David Del Tredici - Lament For The Death Of A Bullfighter - Piano/Vocal Sheet Music
		David Del Tredici - Lament For The Death Of A Bullfighter
		Rebellion - Composer: David Del Tredici and Joshua Beckman - From: Lament For The Death Of A Bullfighter - ©2004
		Sweeter - Composer: David Del Tredici and Joshua Beckman - From: Lament For The Death Of A Bullfighter - ©2004
	www.pianospot.com /1704600.html (570 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Music > Music Review: Deceptively Tame Songs Surprise With a Radical Twist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Del Tredici chose seemed tame on the surface, the music settings proved that there are other ways to be radical.
		Del Tredici's considerable piano technique to its limits, they utterly conveyed the work's mix of homage, irony, daring and vision in their compelling and justly cheered performance.
		Del Tredici conveys the frenzy of the text in shimmering lyrical effusions for the soprano and spiraling, breathless figurations for the piano that recall Richard Strauss.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/05/31/arts/music/31MERK.html?ei=5007&en=81fa50d568655e1d&ex=1401422400&adxnnl=6&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1099653721-rqeFpgbOMekVcvnc4b67JQ (731 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Cabrillo Music Festival
		Del Tredici, who was present, fashioned an operatic scene for singing actor and orchestra out of Alfred Corn's first-person-singular poem, "My Neighbor, the Distinguished Count." For Gruber, the Frankenstein reference was mainly a pretext to arouse the specter of childhood haunts.
		For Dracula, Del Tredici wrote transparently for a chamber orchestra, a refreshing alternative to the symphonic thicket of Michael Daugherty's just-played Fire and Blood violin concerto.
		Del Tredici's economic use of materials--including wind machine--gave soprano/actor Hila Plitmann a colorful and atmospheric context to perform Corn's narrative of the girl-next-door justifying her affection for and service to her toothsome neighbor.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/08.06.03/cabrillo-0332.html (631 words)

	David Del Tredici
		Generally recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music, David Del Tredici has received numerous awards (including the Pulitzer Prize) and has been commissioned and performed by nearly every major American and European orchestral ensemble.
		Looking ahead, March 2007 marks David Del Tredici’s 70th birthday, with concerts planned throughout the year, including the premiere of Magyar Madness, a chamber piece for clarinet and string quartet, commissioned by Music Accord for clarinetist David Krakauer and the Orion String Quartet.
		David Del Tredici is published by Boosey and Hawkes.
	www.boosey.com /pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2854&ttype=BIOGRAPHY&ttitle=Biography (450 words)

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