The Jabberwocky: Explained!

[barondave]

Yesterday, January 27, 2006CE, would have been Lewis Carroll's 173rd birthday. On LiveJournal, it was (to some) Rabbit Hole Day. On Shockwave Radio Theater (3:30pm Central, Sat, 90.3FM Mpls, 106.7FM St. Paul), Brian and I will be reading The Jabberwocky and attempting to explain what it means. We'll go on a bit, and maybe play some related songs by Neil Sedaka and Steeleye Span (!).

If you miss the broadcast, I'll have it podcast at some point RealSoonNow, or you can listen on the KFAI Shockwave most recent site. This will be good from roughly 4:30pm today to when it's updated next week, and for the next week it will be the previous show.

Comments

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

What!? None of David del Tredici's Alice works? Perhaps for next year I'll send you copies of "Final Alice" or "In Memory of a Summer Day" (which latter won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1980; not that that's an automatic guarantee of quality, but shows at least that it was recognized).

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I would like that very much.

I'm hoping that someone will set one of Rev. Dodgson's other works to music: Euclid and His Modern Rivals. Hmm... I wonder if the dementia artists at Marson will be up to it...

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

I listened to this while in the car running errands this afternoon. Very well done!

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Thanks. We wound up having too much fun going on about mimsy borogoves and mome raths and explaining how tennis scoring works to use all the music I'd brought. Didn't play Sedaka's "Alice In Wonderland", but did play Danny Kaye's rendition of "The Walrus and the Carpenter" plus Steeleye Span's "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with the Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat lyrics underneath...