''Alice in Orchestralia'' is a 1925 children's novel by American composer and radio producer Ernest La Prade (1889–1969). A girl named Alice visits a symphony concert and, through the portal of a

tuba The tuba (; ) is the lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the ne ...

's bell, enters Orchestralia, where a

bass viol The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch ...

escorts her and introduces her to a variety of animated musical instruments. In 1934 it was re-issued in a second edition with the title ''Alice in Orchestra Land''. In 1929 La Prade wrote a sequel entitled ''Marching Notes''; in 1952 a British edition of this was published under the title ''Alice in Music Land''. ''Alice in Orchestralia'' was also the title of an NBC radio program broadcast on Friday afternoons in the 1930s. Alice in Orchestralia was also issued as a dramatization in an album of three 78 rpm records issued on the Records of Knowledge label (ROK-20) by the Rexford Corp. of New York. Music composed by Don Gillis. Performed by the Rexford Symphony, Ernest La Prada (author of the book), conducting. The cast: Gene Hamilton (narrator), Celia Rotelle (Alice), Leonard Fabian (bass viol), Robert Weil (saxophone), mother (Ann Gerry). Album cover states "Produced and directed under the personal supervision of Nanette Guilford, Metropolitan Opera Star." Issue date of album is unknown, probably in the 1930s or early 1940s.

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* * * * 1925 American novels 1925 children's books 1925 fantasy novels American children's novels American fantasy novels Books based on Alice in Wonderland Children's fantasy novels Music education in the United States Novels about music {{1920s-child-fantasy-novel-stub

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