David Del Tredici

with Vivian Perlis

New York City

December 16, 1996

Table of Contents

Side F:                                                                                                                        Pg. 1-16

Early career as a pianist--piano teacher (Bernhard Abramowitsch)--family life--homosexuality--early compositions--introduction to composition at Aspen--Princeton--Aaron Copland--Tanglewood--break from composing--Atonality--musical diaries--switch to tonality--attraction to the secret life of Lewis Carroll--Aaron Copland, attitudes toward composition--Neo-romanticism--Final Alice, Child Alice--composer colleagues--success and alcoholism--addiction and recovery--the process of composition and orchestration.

Side G:                                                                                                           Pg. 16-26                   

The process of composition and orchestration (cont.)--Yaddo--The Body Electric--creative surge (summer 1996)--compositions after Child Alice--recovery from alcoholism--personal growth--Opera, Dum Dee Tweedle--moving beyond Alice--relationship between addictions and works--new works from summer 1996--literary interests, poetry--text and form--comparison to Aaron Copland’s methods of composition--coming up with melodies--teaching--the Copland Fund.

David Del Tredici                                      

With Ingram Marshall

New York, New York

July 2, 2002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side s                                                                                                             pp. 1-23

West Coast-East Coast--Happy Voices--post-Alice period--preference for soprano voice--I hear an army--Night Conjure-Verse--Syzygy--Phyllis Bryn-Julson--amplifying the voice--Joyce pieces--writing for orchestra--augmentation and diminution--complex music--Alice  pieces:  Child Alice, Final Alice, performances--All in the Golden Afternoon--Eugene Ormandy--George Rochberg--Ned Rorem--tonality, atonality, twelve-tone technique--Harvard and working in academia--Tison Street--John Adams--early jobs--going to art colonies--Dum Dee Tweedle.

Side t                                                                                                              pp. 23-42

Dum Dee Tweedle--alcoholism--Steps--setting Song of Songs translation by Chana Bloch--song composition--recovering from alcoholism--The Spider and the Fly--Secret Music: Power Tool--Gay Life--homosexuality and music--Haddocks' Eyes--Alice pieces--music and time--sense of large form--Dracula--Pop-Pourri--orchestration--American spirit in his music--performances in Europe--future of the orchestra--Grand Trio--Four Heartfelt anthems--anthem:

"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"--9/11 music--March to Kandahar--parody.