Finish preparing for publication
Palms to Pines Proposal, Op. 353 (2020),
An Ascent of Harriet March Motifs, including
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Night on Bald Mountain (1867)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Songs of the Wayfarer (1885): IV. The Eyes of My Beloved
Franz Lehar (1870-1948) - The New Moon (1928): VII. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
The Threepenny Opera (1928): X. First Threepenny Finale
Happy End (1929): XI. Surabaya Johnny
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) - Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104 (2001): XXIII. Brunnhilde
as a during-the-ceremony wedding gift for Harriet, as she
labors likewise on a poem pour moi. Also complete (7 pages total)
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
I. January 1
3am Gallon of Milk / 5am Musical Comparisons Flute-Oboe / 9am Waiting for the Thunder
and have more text for evolution of work as
January 7
3am A Dark Modernist Library... 7/8 D E D / E F E (Repeat Both) F D B G...
4am Insurrection / Trains - Related Ideas Continuing From Above...
11am An Escalaor in Solano County Recorder's Office (We Took the Elevator)
on the 7th day of spring,
high up 6 to 67, with
sun / blue sky as part of the equation.
Work on above + general catch-up / more marriage preparations in conjuction w/ Amy Klobuchar on Stephen Colbert in the early morrning, then later paralleling
Harriet going through old pictures of her family (evoked in quadrilogy that is The Ring of Harriet, Op. 142 [2006]),
J.S. Bach - Prelude and Futue in Eb Major, BWV 553
(1739, orch. Arnold Schoenber, 1928 -- there's that magic late-1920's again...)
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (1890),
Ralph Vaughan Williams - In the Fen Country (1904, rather early, at 32),
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 in Eb Major, Op. 82
(1919, hmm, again Music Choice's rather quick playlist recycling...),
Maurice Ravel - Menuet Antique (1895, orch. 1929 -- and, once more, re date...),
Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 3
(1884 -- it started as sketches for another symphony, then lateralled over to his third of this genre)
the 2022 U.S. Figure Skating Championships (Harriet's idea -- that's how much I love her -- but also her favorite sport ["sport"?] often utilizing great / intriguing music, albeit often, if not perhaps quite entirely, in suspect arrangements... droll to think of football players making touchdowns to tunes, or ballet dancers falling occasionally and getting points for pirouettes on pointe, etc.... also interesting to note that the trio of play-by-play / color announcers have been Terry Gannon, Tara Lipinski ("that twerp"?, well, certainly not, at least not any more), and the inimitable Johnny Weir -- so, yes, guess, I've picked up a bit on the subject via Harriet and Wikipedia over the years...),
and Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 193 (1954 -- yes, that's more like it, completed just after Josef Stalin's death, Shostakovich avoiding the consequences of a second censure, the wonderfully evocative opening sonata-allegro, diabolic Nazi-actually-Fascist-Soviet second movement and the D. Sch. [D Eb C B] motives in the 2 concluding movmenets)...