January 9 - Making Preparations


Harriet and I trying out various sartorial looks in preparation for the big event tomorrow,

 
then
 

out


together


for


relevant


errands,


on the 9th day of spring,


high down 1 to 58.


Before all this, Zoom Davis Community Presbyterian Church, with


Chris Erdman and


Eunbee Ham, followed by the



Cafe, where we relate news of the upcoming joining.


After, more pre-marital bliss, including composing page 2

English Folk Song Suite Revisited, Op. 377 (January 8, 2022)
     I. I'll Be Seventeen Come Sunday / Pretty Caroline / Dives and Lazarus

and inscribing more text for

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     January 8-9
          3am Various Conspiracies, Put On Like Gloves and Slippers, Across Southern Michigan...
          8am A Large Antique Theory Classroom -- Length of Two w/ Interviening  Doorway in Middle -
                  I Volunteer to Do Dictation, Mostly a Good Job, But Many Initial Mistakes,
                  Sometimes Not Large Enough, Stem Directions,
                  Eventually Join Students Busy Sitting On Desk Near Front,
                  a Television Off (AV Equip) Halfway Down,
                  Speculate that in Old Days There Must Have Been No Bathroom Breaks,
                  as Latecomers, etc., Would Disturb Class Next to Hallway When Processing
                  to More Distant One... Before This, Moving on One's Back Along a Street,
                  Keeping a Sheet Often Between Body and Hot Asphalt Pavement,
                  Some Form of Exercise... at One Point, Semi-Squeezing Between Car and Curb,
                  Distant Neighbors Intrigued... Bug on the Wall, Waiting to Be Obliterated...

+ more wedding work & general catch-up, in tandem with Margaret Hoover and Adam Kinzinger on Firing Line,


the Huell Howser China Camp episode from yesterday, again (wanted to catch the junk-view offshore shot of environs),


Nova Deadliest Volcanoes (OK, a little sensationalist in the title, but informative w/ great scenery),


Aaram Khachaturian - Gayne (1942),


family zoom, where, for the first time, we get to meet the charming and wonderful Summer (!),


the fine second episode of the 2021 revisionist take on Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days (1872).


Benjamin Britten's Suite on English Folk Tunes (A Time There Was), Op. 90 (1974), and


Eduard Tubin's Symphony No. 5 in B Minor (1948)...