Aha!, continuing from https://markalburger2021.blogspot.com/
and grateful for each day, this first one-o'-new-year beginnng with Harriet and Megan,
watching televised Las Vegas fireworks (only local option, since reviewing the New York experience now seems so 2021). Begin editing
Four Prophets, Op. 357 (2021)
II. Joel (Locusts)
and eventually out with wonderful Harriet
for
a
drive
west
on
Cherry
Glen
followed
by
north
on
Pleasants
Valley --
a graben bounded by the Vaca Mountains and English Hills,
past
old Oakdale School,
over
Thurber Bridge,
curving at
Ghost Barn and
Gray Pine
Canyon,
to the straightaway, in view of Rodky Ridge, before
Putah Creek.
128 into Winters,
for
wine
and
jalapeno
chips
at
Hooby's.
Return
via
Putah Creek,
Winters Road,
Allendale,
a no-coffee stop at
Meridian Oates,
I-
505,
Monte Vista,
on this first day of spring,
high 53, locally and in Winters.
A big evening, helping Harriet establish harrietmarchpage2022.blogspot.com
+ general-catch-up, listening, and looking -- including Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (1922), Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 (1888),
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (1944),
Leonard Bernstein's Mass (1971 --
in
a
slightly-text-altered
but
still
brilliant
2019
Ravinia
Festival
rendition),
and
Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya,
in a
nice adaptation
filmed in
August 2020
in an empty Harold Pinter Theatre --
which visually inspired the recent cover of Uncle Vanya, Op. 91 (2000).
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (January 1, 2022)
with
I. January 1
3am Gallon of Milk / 5am Musical Comparison of Flute-Oboe / 7am Waiting for the Thunder
complete text to be set will be
3am Gallon of Milk in Refrigerator Becomes Half Gallon...
5am Musical Comparisons Flute / Oboe, Putting in a Cassette Tape the Wrong Way,
Player Becomes Inoperable, Try to Yank It Out, Eventually Get It,
Someone Helps Me Put Back In, It Has Become a Shoe That Folds,
In a Certain Way, I Say, I Would Never Have Figured It Out,
Show a Video to Students in Our Home,
One Student and a School Official Are Talking Out Of Sight,
I Can Do Nothing But Walk Upstairs, Let Harriet Deal w/ Situation, I'm Retiring After All,
Come Down Stairs (!) Again, Better Deal w/ It After All, As I'm Still Teaching at the Moment.
9am Waiting for the Thunder, Has It Happened or Will It,
Anticipating the Alarm Clock 1/2 Step Low, and Encorporating Its Melody into Piece...