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. BUY from your favorite sheet music dealer, or direct from Presser starting in September 2026. 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 28, 2026 | |
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