WESTBETH ICON Evening
David Del Tredici composer

Thursday May 16, 2019 at 7PM
Westbeth Community Room

David Del Tredici, American composer and long time resident of Westbeth

The Pulitzer Prize winner in Music and a former Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow, Del Tredici is considered a pioneer of the Neo-Romantic movement. He has also been described by the Los Angeles Times as “one of our most flamboyant outsider composers”

Del Tredici draws on literature for his song cycles including Lewis Carroll (particularly Alice in Wonderland), but he has also been inspired by contemporary American poets, especially Westbeth Icon, Edward Field.

Del Tredici has also created works celebrating “gayness”, acknowledging that many great composers were gay and that “it’s something to be celebrated”. A reviewer has noted that themes in his work examine “tormented relationships, personal transformations, and the joys and sorrows of gay life”. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has held additional residencies at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony.

Westbeth Icon Series celebrates the life and work of senior artists who continue to work and who inspire others by their passion and dedication.

The evening consists of a filmed interview, live performances of Del Tredici’s work, and remarkes by the composer himself.

This is a special, not to be missed evening!