David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is a contemporary composer. March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cloverdale is a city located in Sonoma County, California. ... In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ...

After making his piano debut with the San Francisco Symphony at 17, he went on to receive a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.F.A. in 1964 from Princeton University, studying with composers Earl Kim, Seymour Shifrin and Roger Sessions. The San Francisco Symphony is a major orchestra based in San Francisco, California. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ... Roger Sessions (28 December 1896 – 16 March 1985) was an American composer, critic and teacher of music. ...

His early work drew from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland for inspiration, covering a wide variety of musical styles and forms. He was awarded a Pulitzer prize in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day", the first part of Child Alice. Themes of his later works include literature -- notably, Victorian works, contemporary poets, and the works of James Joyce, Allen Ginsberg, Rumi, Federico García Lorca, Thom Gunn, Paul Monette, Colette Inez, and Bram Stoker -- his own personal stories, and his life as a homosexual. Photograph of Lewis Carroll taken by himself, with assistance Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ... Alice in Wonderland is the widely known and used title for Alices Adventures in Wonderland, a book written by Lewis Carroll -- as well as several movie adaptations of the book -- and is also the setting for several short stories. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. ... Photo of Allen Ginsberg by Robert Birnbaum Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Paterson, New Jersey. ... Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi or Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi Rumi (also known as Mowlavi or Moulana, meaning my guide in Iran, Central and South Asia or Mevlana meaning our guide in Turkey) (September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273 CE) was a Persian poet and Sufi mystic, who was... Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. ... Thom Gunn (August 29, 1929 - April 25, 2004) was a British poet. ... Paul Monette (October 16, 1945, Lawrence, Massachusetts – February 10, 1995, Los Angeles, California) was an American author, poet, and activist who wrote about gay relationships and AIDS. Monette graduated from Yale University in 1967, conflicted about his sexual identity, and moved to Los Angeles where he lived with his romantic... Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847–April 20, 1912) was an Anglo-Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ...

While trained in serial technique, Del Tredici's works are rooted in tonality; he is one of the most adamant proponents of neoromanticism, with a desire to revive tonality in contemporary music. Note: This article is about serials in literature and the audio-visual media. ... Neoromanticism in music was a trend in European music started in second half of 19th century in Germany. ... Tonality is the character of music written with hierarchical relationships of pitches, rhythms, and chords to a center or tonic. ...

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, he is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Woodrow Wilson fellowship, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, a Friedheim Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His works are regularly commissioned by major orchestras in America and abroad. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters was formed in 1976 from the merger of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, which was founded in 1898, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which was founded in 1904. ...

Notable works include:

• Six Songs for voice and piano (text by James Joyce) (1959)
• An Alice Symphony (1969)
• Final Alice, an opera in concert form for soprano, folk ensemble, and orchestra (1976)
• Child Alice ("In Memory of a Summer Day", "Happy Voices", "In the Golden Afternoon", "Quaint Events") for soprano and orchestra (1980 - 81)
• The Spider and The Fly for high soprano, high baritone, and orchestra (1998)

External links

• Boosey & Hawkes biography (http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2854&langid=1&ttype=BIOGRAPHY&ttitle=Biography)
  
• American Mavericks interview (http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/interview_deltredici.html)
• NewMusicBox: David Del Tredici in conversation with Frank J. Oteri, 2003 (http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=2093)