February 28 - Pushover


Partially update

Songs for Rebecca, Op. 34 (1988)

on https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/

incorporate more text vis a vis

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     February 27-28
          7am Conclude an Oudoor Introduction / Farewells, Before Moving Away and Getting Sick,
               Twice, Before Departure on a Bike Trip, w/ Items Perched Dangerously on Seat,
               But Not Losing Any, Down a Path, New Because Old One Overgrown,
               This the Wrong Way Facing Oncoming Traffic of a Sparsely Driven Interstate,
               Approaching a Bridge, Proceeding in the Wrong Direction...
          9am Maze-Like Modernist, Steel Alluminum Reflective Covered Building in Southern CA /
               France, We Have a Festive Dinner, Leave Computer for Futher Exploration,
               Eventually Leading Into a Maze of Bathrooms, No Clear Way Out,
               Finally a Woman Suggests an Emergncy Duct, I Posit Pulling Alarm Levers,
               Now Outside w/ Sarcastic French Police,
               They Tell Us We Immediately Come Across as American Tourists,
               We Make Our Way Up a Slope, Looking Down at Long Relatively Thin Building in Canyon,
                This the Gentler Sloped Side,
                I Say Something Snide Back that Everyone Emigrates to America and
                Not so Many to France...Earlier Great Views Out of Building and Then Not...
                Tawny California Relatively-Treeless Hills All Around....

and compose

Famous Last Words, Op. 385 (2022)
     43 Max Reger (1873-1916)


Mid-day 24th walk on the Vacaville Streets Route:


East Glacier southeast from Central Park


with darling Harriet to


Yellowstone,


thence


southwest


towards


a


shuttle


on the


16th day of summer,


high up 4 to 77, the 146 birthday of


John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951), meriting a listen to his


     Concertino for Piano (1914), as well as


J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Orchestral Suite No. 2 (1739): I. Ouverture,


Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - Harold in Italy, Op. 16 (1834),


Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 (1909),


and a double dose of Witold Lutoslawki (1913- in a complete Concerto for Orchestra (1953), augmented by

     Piano Concerto (1987).


Harriet updates


her blog as


Day 5


Putin Invasion of


Ukraine rages,


with the Ukrainians

putting up fierce resistance and


the


Russians


at least


a


bit


stalled.


Mid-afternoon meeting with Ben Sabey re the prospects of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra rehearsing and performing at SF State, and early-evening


second session and


enlgihtening complete reading of


Chris Erdman's


What Lies Hid Beneath the Bones of this Great Tree (2021)...

February 27 - Wild Rosy Times


 Harriet's Birthday!

So,



off


to


Davis


Community


Presbyterian


Church,


then


heading


via


Covell


and


Russell


towards


Winters


for


coffee and cake


at


Steady Eddy's.


Following this,


we


make


our


way,


west


along


Putah


Creek


and


south


into


beautiful


and


pleasant


(at


least


when


not


afire)


Pleasants


Valley --


a


graben


between the


English Hills and


Vaca Mountains,


ascending


to the


Oakdale Divide,


with views of Mt. Diablo,


Mix Canyon,


and the


Lagoon


Mountains.


Eventually


homeward


but


soon


on the road


again for


celebratory supplies


(a surprisingly hazardous endeabor)...


At last the celebration proper,


with cake, ice cream,


flowers, candy, party hats, and the


Birthday


Girl!


Happy


Anniversary,


Harriet! --


Recapitulated several hours later on Zoom...


An eventful day!  The 15th of summer, first 70's temp since February 19, high zooming up 12 from yesterday to 73, with other birthday celebrants being Constantine (272-337),


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882),


Marian Anderson (1897-1993), and


John Steinbeck (1902-1968) --

time enough to compose

Periodic Table, Op. 386 (2022)
     II. Helium

taking cues from He as German B - E, troped on music co-written by Zanhao He (b. 1933), ascending upward, and pretty much gathering on the ceiling in active canonic molecular-musical activity...


Additionally, partially update

San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, Op. 33 (1988)

on the Works List site, plus generate more text for

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 26-27
     3am Tahoe Joe's with Bright Beach Colors... Off the Coast on a Submerged Jetty,
          Worried a Bit That Will Get Swept Away, But There Are Others Around,
          Make Way Back to Sand, Very Crowded Small Sunny Late-Afternoon Area,
          Backed by Rocky Cliffs in Shade, Have to Negotiate Between and Step Over People,
          Spectacular Vertical Rock Cliff, With People Sunbathing/ Shadebathing Upon,
          Dangerous Overhangs, Some Sandy Areas, Almost Mountain-Climbing Net Platforms,
          Some Dangling Upside Daown, Quite a Potential Fall to Bottom,
          Onward To Take Picture of Same, But We're Farther,
          More Civilized Like a Built-Up Ocean-City Oceanfront Hotel Row, or the Ponte Veccio,
          Realize that I Will Have to Back Up / Go Forward to Get the Best Picture -- Before,
          Stepping Over One Child Who's Buried His Legs Not Only in Sand, but in Rocks,
          Some Nudist Denizens -- Beautiful Beach!
     5am A Former Lover Tries to Establish a Beachhead in Bed w/ Me, and Is Rejected. 
           She Lies Straddling a Foot Off Floor w/ Impossible Features,
           Has Her Revenge By Having a Large Black Dog Jump off Onto the Bed to
           Fraternize, As I Attempt to Get Comfortable Amid Pillows...


As the


nightmare of


Putin's war in


Ukraine


continues


to


rage,


although not without glimmer of hope (stay tuned)!


Other sights and sounds of the day include

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Orchestral Suite No. 1 (1717): I. Ouverture,


F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 103 in Eb Major ("Drum Roll") (1795): II. Adagio,


Muzio Clementi (1752-1732) - Sonatina No. 3 in C Major, Op. 36, No. 3 (1797): III. Presto,


Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - 12 Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen", Op. 56 (1796),


Franz Schubert (1797-1928) - Symphony No. 9 ("The Great") (1826),


Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 82 (1885),


Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Nocturne No. 6 in Db, Op. 63 (1894),


Emil von Reznicek (1860-1945) - Donna Diana (1895): Overture,


Emil von Sauer (1862-1942 -- what are the odds of 2 Emil vons in a row in the day's chronological listening?) - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor (1895 -- and, again, compare to immediae previous!),


Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - 6 Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 89 (1917),


Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 26 (1906),


Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951 -- Hey!  Schoenberg featured on MC!) - Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899 -- well, despite Gustav Mahler [1860-1911] perception of its complexity, not exactly on my top 10 Schoenbergian list...),


Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Cirandas (1926): XI. Nesta Rua Nesta Rua (In This Street),


Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) - Escales 1922),


a double-dose (even a single a seemingly rare MC event) of Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) - Colas Breugnon, Op. 24 (1938) and


     The Comedians, Op. 25 (1940), and


Lars Erik Larsson - Divertimento No. 2, Op. 15 (1935).


Also note with sadness, the death of Julie Ann Giacobassi (1949 - February 21, 2022), with a nice obituary in today's San Francisco Chronicle...