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Adaptations of Alice

Musical Adaptations

The timeline above contains a collection of musical adaptations of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. While not a complete list, it gives a sense of the breadth of adaptations and when they first appeared. Clips were sourced from publicly viewable collections, such as YouTube, and full renditions are linked when possible. Caption and release date information comes from the web source and Wikipedia unless otherwise noted.

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"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single and became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked number 478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Number 116 on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of All Time, and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Written in 1999 by Federico Biscione, Milan, for soprano and nine instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, small percussions, piano, violin, cello and double-bass). The words are these of the well-known poem "Jabborwocky" by Lewis Carroll, as it apperars in "Through the Looking-Glass" (published in 1871 as sequel of Alice's adventures in Wonderland). Alice is in conversation with the chess pieces White King and White Queen; she finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realising that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognises that the verse on the pages are written in mirror-writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems, and reads the reflected verse of "Jabberwocky". She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has walked into, later revealed as a dreamscape. Many of the words in the poem are playful nonce words of Carroll's own invention, without intended explicit meaning, and when Alice has finished reading the poem she gives her impressions: «'It seems very pretty,' she said when she had finished it, 'but it's rather hard to understand!' (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.) 'Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate'». "Jabberwocky" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. This is the live recording of the first performance, that took place in Verona (Sala Maffeiana of the Teatro Filarmonico) on May 24, 1999.
\"Sunshine\" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Marti Frederiksen. It was released in mid-2001 as a promotional single from the band's album Just Push Play.The song's lyrics have an Alice in Wonderland feel with such as lyrics \"I followed Alice into wonderland\", \"Took to the hatter like a walk in the park\", \"I ate the mushroom and I dance with the queen\", \"I chased that rabbit up her Bodhi Tree\" and \"That caterpillar's tryin to cop a plea\". Also the lyrics \"She's finer than a painted rose\" possibly referring to Disney's cartoon Alice in Wonderland when the Queen's men try to paint the white roses red.
"Sunshine" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Marti Frederiksen. It was released in mid-2001 as a promotional single from the band's album…
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