From 1975 through 1977 Di Lello created four related works: Peaches' Lament, Peaches' Beacon, Peaches' Perplex and Peaches Melisma, all of which came out of Di Lello's teaching at the Dance Center of the Harvard Summer School.
In the January 1979 issue of Dance Magazine, Amanda Smith wrote that the music and choreography of Peaches' Melisma created a "slightly eerie limbo" through which the work slowly emerged.