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The Kickstarter page states, "A massive 130-minute work for large orchestra and an amplified soprano soloist, Child Alice has been performed only twice in its entirety, and has never been commercially recorded."
The ensemble is The Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Your cabbage, etc. will be in good hands! Not only is BMOP Musical America's 2016 Ensemble of the Year; they have successfully produced about 50 recordings, as well has completing four Kickstarter projects. (Some BMOP Kickstarter projects were not funded; but, that's the record biz.) The project already has pledges totaling more than $12,000; about $2,400 additional is all that is needed. The higher-echelon donor rewards include autographed items.
Complete Kickstarter info is here. The project video is not embed-able here, but it presents snippets from the live recording.
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Wow!
I stumble into the asylum for the first time in months and look what I find. Thanks, John, for pointing this out. DDT was my composition professor at BU right around the time he was working on this (I had to wait a year to study with him as he was on a sabbatical for the Pulitzer), so I'm really looking forward to hearing this recording.
So I am big fan.
Did you know that DDT was one of David Chesky's teachers?
Talk about small world.
John
DDT wasn't at BU very long (a short stint after Harvard, and he was commuting from NYC at the time), so other than a few classmates I don't know many others who studied with him. He has a larger-than-life personality that quite matches his compositions - he could be bitingly sarcastic in his criticism, but warmly enthusiastic on those few occasions when he actually liked what I brought to a lesson. And he could be really funny.
I have the Solti LP of Final Alice (one of the few Solti recordings I actually listen to), and I recall a live performance from the BSO while I was in school there (that was much more entertaining than the recording, including a "test" of the bullhorn before singing into it).
I've always wanted to hear the second half of Child Alice. I've heard "In Memory of a Summer Day" both live and on the Nonesuch LP; I'm always disappointed at the end of the LP as it's waiting to segue into something that isn't there. I can't wait to hear this new full recording.
I think "Final Alice" is up there with "Knoxville, Summer of 1915" as one of the greatest 20th-c. works for singer and orchestra.
And, "Final Alice" is more creative.
BTW, another of Tredici's students is David Leisner; I wrote the liner notes for the debut recording of his Sonata for Violin and Guitar.
JM
BMOP's Kickstarter has garnered pledges of $14,900.
jm
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