Chapter Eight – The Queen's Croquet Ground:
Alice leaves the tea party and enters the garden where she comes upon three living playing cards painting the white roses on a rose tree red because The Queen of Hearts hates white roses. A procession of more cards, kings and queens and even the White Rabbit enters the garden. Alice then meets the King and Queen. The Queen, a figure difficult to please, introduces her trademark phrase "Off with his head!" which she utters at the slightest dissatisfaction with a subject. Alice is invited (or some might say ordered) to play a game of croquet with the Queen and the rest of her subjects but the game quickly descends into chaos. Live flamingos are used as mallets and hedgehogs as balls and Alice once again meets the Cheshire Cat. The Queen of Hearts then orders the Cat to be beheaded, only to have her executioner complain that this is impossible since the head is all that can be seen of him. Because the cat belongs to the Duchess, the Queen is prompted to release the Duchess from prison to resolve the matter.
第八章：女王的槌球場
愛麗絲離開茶聚，走進了一個花園。她遇到三個嬉戲玩樂的紙牌僕人，他們正為討厭白玫瑰的紅心王后將樹上的白玫瑰塗上紅色。接著，更多紙牌僕人、國王和王后都列隊進入了花園，連白兔先生也來了。愛麗絲會見了國王和王后。那個王后很難討好，她說自己平日只要對事物有些微的不滿，就會大喊她的口頭禪「給我砍掉他的頭顱！」 王后邀請（或許有些人會認為那是命令）愛麗絲跟他們一起打槌球，可是，這場比賽很快便淪為一片混亂。他們把活生生的火烈鳥當作球棍，又把刺蝟當作球。接著，愛麗絲再一次遇上柴郡貓。紅心王后命人砍下柴郡貓的頭，劊子手卻抱怨他沒可能做到，因為他只能看見柴郡貓的頭。由於柴郡貓是屬於公爵夫人的，王后只好將公爵夫人從監獄釋放，再處理斬首的事。
第八章：女王的槌球場
愛麗絲離開茶聚，走進了一個花園。她遇到三個嬉戲玩樂的紙牌僕人，他們正為討厭白玫瑰的紅心王后將樹上的白玫瑰塗上紅色。接著，更多紙牌僕人、國王和王后都列隊進入了花園，連白兔先生也來了。愛麗絲會見了國王和王后。那個王后很難討好，她說自己平日只要對事物有些微的不滿，就會大喊她的口頭禪「給我砍掉他的頭顱！」 王后邀請（或許有些人會認為那是命令）愛麗絲跟他們一起打槌球，可是，這場比賽很快便淪為一片混亂。他們把活生生的火烈鳥當作球棍，又把刺蝟當作球。接著，愛麗絲再一次遇上柴郡貓。紅心王后命人砍下柴郡貓的頭，劊子手卻抱怨他沒可能做到，因為他只能看見柴郡貓的頭。由於柴郡貓是屬於公爵夫人的，王后只好將公爵夫人從監獄釋放，再處理斬首的事。
Composer
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Judith Lang Zaimont is an internationally recognized composer whose music is characterized by its expressive strength, dynamism, and rhythmic vitality. Her musical language is coloristic, employing a chromatic, almost centrifugal tonality which shrewdly balances the lyric and drama. Many works from Zaimont’s catalogue have won prizes such as Guggenheim Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship and the Debussy Fellowship of the Alliance Française de New York.
“Exquisitely crafted, vividly characterized and wholly appealing.” -- NEW YORK TIMES “Well-made music, consistently inventive and accomplished, rhythmically and harmonically subtle.” -- MusicWeb International Among her composition awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983-84); Maryland State Arts Council creative fellowship (1986-87); commission grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1982) and American Composers Forum (1993); and grants to support recordings from the Aaron Copland Fund (American Music Center: 1995, 2002) and Ditson Fund (Columbia University: 2002). Over the past decade, she has been Composer of the Year at Alabama University-Huntsville (1994-95),Featured Composer at the 1995 Society of Composers International meeting,Filene Artist-in-Residence for the 1996-97 year at Skidmore College, Composer in Residence at University of Wisconsin-River Falls (spring 1999), andHonored Composer at the 11th International Van Cliburn Competition in 2001 (where both Gold Medalists selected and performed her music). Most recently she has been Featured Composer for 2002 - National Federation of Music Clubs, 2003 Commissioned Composer of the California Music Teachers Association, Commissioned Composer for the 2003 International San Antonio Piano Competition, and recipient of a 2003 Aaron Copland Award(commissions, residency), a 2005-06 Commissioned Composer - Kaplan Foundation (work for wind ensemble) and recipient of a 2005 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship in Composition. |
