Pieces from Wonderland for Solo Timpani (2015)
Program Note:
The first movement of the piece introduces Alice through a musical spelling of her full name: AliCE plEAsAnCE liDDEll (a ploy I can’t help but think Lewis Carroll would appreciate). After spiraling down into the rabbit hole, Alice meets the infamous White Rabbit and his perpetually ticking pocket watch (the second movement) and attends the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party with its not-quite-right rejoinders of “Twinkle Twinkle Little...Bat” (the third movement). Finally the Queen of Hearts concludes the piece with her infamous sentencing of all the characters: “Off with their heads!”—which becomes, when translated into music with one’s tongue firmly in cheek, the Dies Irae.
I. Down the Rabbit-Hole
II. The White Rabbit
III. The Mad Tea Party
IV. The Court of the Queen of Hearts
Performance History:
Michelle Hofeldt, timpani
Benson Great Hall (Arden Hills, MN)
14 April 2015
The first movement of the piece introduces Alice through a musical spelling of her full name: AliCE plEAsAnCE liDDEll (a ploy I can’t help but think Lewis Carroll would appreciate). After spiraling down into the rabbit hole, Alice meets the infamous White Rabbit and his perpetually ticking pocket watch (the second movement) and attends the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party with its not-quite-right rejoinders of “Twinkle Twinkle Little...Bat” (the third movement). Finally the Queen of Hearts concludes the piece with her infamous sentencing of all the characters: “Off with their heads!”—which becomes, when translated into music with one’s tongue firmly in cheek, the Dies Irae.
I. Down the Rabbit-Hole
II. The White Rabbit
III. The Mad Tea Party
IV. The Court of the Queen of Hearts
Performance History:
Michelle Hofeldt, timpani
Benson Great Hall (Arden Hills, MN)
14 April 2015
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