Piano Music by Dr Svetlana Rudenko, Narration by Prof. Mads Haahr, Illustrations by Salvador Dalí for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commissioned by Random House, NY, 1969).
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, 2014. The images have been taken by Martí Gasull and Black & White, Ltd.
Characters: White Rabbit & Alice
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!”
“They were indeed a queer-looking party…” Dodo organized to get everyone dry in a Caucus-Race and the Mouse’s tail.
“She went on growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor…”
Characters: Caterpillar & Alice.
“Who are you?”
Characters: Alice, Duchess, Cheshire-Cat, baby-piglet and the cook.
“There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!”
“There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it…”
Characters: The King and the Queen of Hearts, Alice.
“The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing”
“Once,” said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, “I was a real Turtle.”
“See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!”
“The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
And took them quite away!”
“Wake up, Alice dear!” said her sister; “Why, what a long sleep you’ve had!”
“Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice…