January 2 - Handy Themes and Variations


Early morning listenings of Gabriel Pierne's Cydalise and the Satyr (1915 -- considered, along with Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque [1905]: III. Claire de Lune, for inclusion in Walt Disney's Fantasia, 1940, but ultimately replaced w/ Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 [Pastoral'], 1808) and


Othmar Schoeck's Violin Concerto, Op. 21 (1912)...


take


in


Davis Community [Presbyterian] Church's


online service,


with the all-star-dynamic cast of Chris Erdman,


Emma Thomson, and the DCC Choir.


Out with


Harriet for a drive to the snow -- first time to see such since the flyovers in late 2019 with Cliff --


now through Sacramento,


with the first distant views of the Sierra,


then the foothills of Newcastle,


Auburn,


with a stop at Foresthill


Arco,


views of the Ravine,


the


precipitate


white


stuff


kicking


in


at


Applegate,


Weimar,


and


Colfax. 


Turn


around

time --


in this burg of Terry Riley's birth and Flea Hart's residence,

fleeing


back

downslope


before

increasingly

cloudy


skies,

party

perhaps

over,

weatherwise,

in

the

next

few

days,

this

one

being the 2nd of spring high down 2 to 51


Dixon, 50
Davis, 55
Sacramento / Auburn, 52
Colfax, 46


with an


end-run


homeward on


Silveyville,

Allendale,


505


South,


Monte Vista, and


Nut Tree to the first


Family Zoom of the year...

Also create page 2's re editing

Four Prophets, Op. 357  (2021)
    II. Joel (Locusts)

and composing

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
    I. January 1
          3am Gallon of Milk / 5am Musical Comparisons Flute-Oboe / 9am Waiting for the Thunder

as well as dreaming up a second night, more to come...

     II. January 2 (After Bernstein Mass)
          6am Hypnotism, Psychology, Religion, Emotional Pain, Libaries, All Masked...
                    World Book Encyclopedia 1965...
          9am Dodging a Very Slow Man-Buffalo in the Front Yard of 325, with a Fox,
                    Making Sure the Creature Dosen't Aim for the Study Door...
                    There Was Another Part to This Previous, Not Written Down Quickly Enough...
                    Also Mythological, Buffalogical, Corresponding to Ken Teore...
                    Other High School Analogs... Darting Behind Christmas Trees in Tall Green Grasss....

Ah, yes, and take in all the Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)symphonies, with scores, on YouTube, to wit

     Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7 (1892)
     Symphony No. 2 ("The Four Temperaments"), Op. 16 (1902)
     Symphony No. 3 ("Sinfonia Espansiva"), Op. 27 (1911)
     Symphony No. 4 ("The Inextinguishable"), Op. 29 (1916)
     Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (1922)
     Symphony No. 6 ("Sinfonia Semplice") (1925)