764th anniversary of the fall of Bagdad to the Mongols --
so,
definitely nice in contrast here,
out with
Harriet for the 14th Vacaville Streets walk,
making our way from West Lassen Mid-Parking northwest,
around the bend northeast to the
Greenspace,
reversing
course
past a
variety of
neighbors,
on the 7th day of summer,
high up 2 to 83
(new record high of the year).
Return to continue work of the day, updating the Works site as to
Some Stuff, Op. 16 (1979),
editing
Isaiah, Op. 175 (2009)
V. My Love Had a Vineyard
and texting
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 9-10
4am Music History Substitute at Elite Prep School, Only 3 Young Men In Class,
We Sit on Floor of Library, Which Is Converted Large House Room, At First All Goes Well,
But Mood Is Broken by Video Equip Not Connected to Computer or Internet
(There We Go Again), I Try To Lecture on Messiaen, Without Benefit of Examples,
and I've Pretty Much Lost Them, Young Woman Comes Through Doror, Is Distracting,
Leaves, Think About Confronting Her in Hall, Then Think Better of It, Door Opens Again,
Turns Out an Art Class Around Corner in Space, w/ Guitar Lightly Strumming,
Realize All Is Pretty Much a Lost Cause, and It's a Dream, and That's it....
7am Swarthmore College Alumni, Giant Canyons, Priviledged Opportunities...
9am Resurrection Scene, Normally Down Front Backwards Through Tent,
But This Time Zipping Around Side, New Script, Biblical Promotions,
Somewhat Unbelievable...Rabid Followers and Sceptics...
Now Sacramento, Brilliant Blue Sky...
10am Into Davis Community Church Choir Loft Through the Impossible Door...
Take Zoom breaks from above with the Springfield High School Reunion group and
Davis Community Presbyterian Church Chancel and Chamber Choirs -- the creative labours before and after in context of
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 26 in D Minor ("Lamentatione") (1768),
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) - Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a (1894),
Tor Aulin (1866-1914) - Master Olof, Op. 22 (1908 -- updated Wikipedia on this one...)
Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) - Gavota (1913),
Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco (1895-1968) - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 46 (1927),
Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) - Star Trek (1966) -
All Our Yesterdays (Season 3, Penultimate Episode 23, 1969, featuring music of George Duning, 1908-2000),
continuing the George Crumb (1929-2022) Chronological Listening-on-YouTube Project with
Five Pieces for Piano (1962),
Night Music I (1963 -- tough guy in the smoking era -- and really starting to sound definitive!),
Four Nocturnes (1964)
11 Echoes of Autumn (1965 -- all all these beautiful / intriguing sounds and scores!),
Madrigals, Books I and II (1965) / Books III and IV (1969) -- while the early pieces before this have been heard over the years, these reponses to the Monteverdian madrigal model (i.e. solo voice, rather than parts) are the earliest that have been part of my Crumbian through-line since youth -- and
Baltasar Kormakur - Everest (2015 -- with music of Dario Marinelli, b. 1963 -- after the 1996 tragedies on the mountain).
More reports
scattered throughout the day of the
Criminal Former-Occupant
(are we shocked, shocked, shocked -- not really),
adding a few re his cohorts (perhaps providing aid and comfort to seditions enough ground to permanently ban from holding future office)...