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This is a great project. I hope people will respond.
So I was thrilled to hear that BMOP had recorded their highly praised performance of David Del Tredici's Child Alice, a sprawling romantic work for soprano and orchestra. I greatly enjoy his Final Alice, Alice Symphony, and In Memory of a Summer Day (part one of Child Alice) for which Del Tredici won a Pulitzer Prize but there has never been a complete recording of Child Alice. For a taste of Del Tredici's Alice music, think of Mahler's soaring and powerful melodic expression with hints of Copland!
So here's your chance to help us all hear this thrilling performance (I have heard portions) as a two-disc hybrid-SACD set. BMOP has established a KickStarter effort to fund the production and release of what the Boston Globe headlined as "Rose, BMOP wax ecstatic in glorious, unsettling 'Alice'."
Please go to www.kickstarter.com/projects/bmopsound/david-del-tredici-child-alice now and we will all be able to enjoy Child Alice soon. Any and all contributions will help achieving the goal of $14,800 by April 30.
This is a great project. I hope people will respond.
A big thank-you to those who have contributed. The goal was reached last night!