Year
1974-75, arr. 1982
Duration
4'
Category
Voice & Piano
Instrumentation
by Lewis Carroll
Extracted From
Final Alice for soprano (amplified), folk group, and large orchestra (1974-75)
Tags
Alice Work
Buy Score
Boosey & Hawkes
Premieres
  1. August 21, 1982
    Version for High Voice
    Lenox Arts Center, Massachussetts
    Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano / David Del Tredici, piano

ACROSTIC SONG is the lullaby-like concluding aria from FINAL ALICE. The text is the seven-verse epilogue poem to Through the Looking Glass, the second of Lewis Carroll's Alice hooks. The poem is an acrostic; the initial letters of the lines spell out Alice Pleasance Liddell, the name of the real-life Alice for whom Carroll wrote his stories.

Recordings (2)

  • Something to Sing About cover image

    Something to Sing About

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    Something to Sing About

    2011, Albany Records

    Works


    Performers

    • Lisa Kirchner

  • Extraordinary Vistas: Words and Music of The MacDowell Colony cover image

    Extraordinary Vistas: Words and Music of The MacDowell …

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    Extraordinary Vistas: Words and Music of The MacDowell Colony

    2003, Americus

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    Performers

    • Susan Narucki, Soprano
    • Alan Feinberg, Piano