Send out wedding invitation to a number of email lists, with the Marin County Clerk's Zoom link,
plus change Facebook banner to same (w/ email address to request link), and my do we get a nice response, particularly re the latter, w/ c. 126 likes and 82 comments...
English Folk Song Suite Revisited, Op. 377 (January 8, 2022)
I. I'm Seventeen Come Sunday / Pretty Caroline / Dives and Lazarus
for chorus and orchestra, which will combine Ralph Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting w/ selected Percy Grainger folk-song settings and other sources -- texts often on the Boccaccio / Chaucer racy side...
additionally updating text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
January 8
5am Straight and Gay Couple (Univision):
If They're Really Going to Put Us Through Their Paces, Womder What They're Selliing....
6am Same Scenario, Expanded...
10am Collapsing Minor Third Motive (C Eb) - Compound Time... Family... Bicycles...
on the 8th day of spring,
high up 2 to 59
(2nd warmest of year thus far, tying w/ January 4).
Lots of counterpoint re all above, with
Don Gillis - Symphony No. 5 1/2 (1946) in the early morning,
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Choros No. 9 (1929 -- again that fateful year) upon further awakening,
Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite (1925 -- a welcome re-hearing after some time, the inspiration for new work above, of course)
Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 n D Minor ("Classical"), Op. 25 (another oft-repeated Music Choice offering),
beautiful Harriet, as always,
Camille Saint-Saens - Tarantelle for Flute, Clarinet, and Orchestra, Op. 6 (1857),
Nathan Chen performing not on on ice but also on Glassian piano, and holding forth on Philip Glass
updates re the Never-Told-the-Truth-in-his-Life
Psychopath,
fine commentary from Yamiche Alcindor,
a classic Huell Howser episdode re China Camp, with comparitively rare offshore footage,
updated Firing Line's Margaret Hoover with
Adam Kinzinger,
Enrique Granados - 12 Danzas Espagnolas, Op. 5 (1890): IX. Mazurka Romantica,
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 (1878),
George Gershwin - Rhapsody No. 2 ("In Rivets") (1931),
Maurice Ravel - Vocalise Etude en Forme de Habanera (1907, another work in short rotation on Music Choice),
Gerald Finzi - Love's Labor's Lost, Op. 28 (1946): Dance - Allegro molto vivace
John Adams - The Chairman Dances (1985),
Arthur de Greef - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor (1914, same year as Alban Berg's 3 Pieces for Orchestra),
Kurt Atterberg - Symphony No. 2 in F Major, Op. 6 (1913 -- another key year!), and
a cinematic update (2021) of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days 1872), with Passepartout re-imagined as a French-African and the characters of Detective Fix (the name, at least) and Adouda (the love interest) coalesced into journalist Abigail Fix...