Music by DANIEL DORFF |
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| Two Alphabetical Songs for Voice and Piano | |
| Duration: c. 2' Texts by the composer, with the words in alphabetical order. DETAILS PREMIERED November 11, 1995 by Manuela Ochakowski soprano, and Johannes Harneit piano, and broadcast across Europe, as a winner of the Neue Musik in Delmenhorst competition. PROGRAM NOTES When my nephew was an infant, I first met him at a family get-together at my parents' home. Standing around in the kitchen, I happened to notice "a baby called David eating from Grandma's hand, in Joan's kitchen." We are a family of word puzzle players, and I couldn't resist completing that alphabetical string to make a 26-word coherent sequence, then set it to music. Feeling proud of and amused by this brief oeuvre, I then added another alphabetical song text to be a tango whose words begin: "All boys can dance, even fine gentlemen have inner jazz." Ironically for a tongue-in-cheek diversion, this is my only composition to win a European new music prize. | 
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last updated June 13, 2026 | |
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