The coffee pot gives up the ghost, so, in order to buy a new one,
first off to the day's Vacaville Streets outing with Harriet,
walking on East Lassen from Central Flower Parking,
around the
bend southwest
to the
Greenspace,
then
pick up
the pot
and
gather more supplies,
on the 8th day of summer,
high down 1 to 82 (second-highest temp of year).
Home again, on this 175th birthday of Thomas Edison,
to continue musical endeavors, including noting the placement of
Four Processions, Op. 12 (1977) on Scoreser
updating the Works site as to
Two and a Half Pieces, Op. 17 (1979),
editing
VIa. Duo Seraphim,
plus adding new text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 10-11
5am Filming for a Cowby Version of My On the Road,
I've Been Told Not To Film a Certain On-Location Scene So Far,
and Am Wondering If I'll Bother to Follow Through with This,
Driving Into Lagoon Valley on Way to Filming, w/ Spectacular Giant Rock Formations...
10am Walking To a Campus Nearby, Entering a Security Door that Was Recently Exited,
Close-Up, to Solano County Clerk, May I Help You With Anything Else?
in cahoots with a cohort of other sonic-visual delights, including
FU. Haydn (1732-1809) - Piano Sonata No. 34 in D Minor (1773),
Peter Tchaikovksy (1840-1893) - Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50 (1882),
Ernest Chausson (1856-1899) - Symphony in Bb Minor, Op. 20 (1890),
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - The Wand of Youth, Op. 1a (1907),
Walter Leigh (1905-1942) - A Midsummer Night's Dream (1937),
the continuing chronological George Crumb (1929-2022) festival, now in very familiar territory with
Echoes of Time and the River (1967),
Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death (1968 -- his favorite piece, is this his stand-in for a Requiem?)
Night of the Four Moons (1969),
Ancient Voices of Children (1970),
Black Angels (1970),
Lux Aeterna (1971),
Vox Balaenae (1971 -- rather than the classic album which doesn't seem to be online, a great new video),
Makrokosmos, Volume 1 (1972) and
2 (1973 -- the former in the original recording by David Burge, the latter 21st-Century Music associate Laura Hudicek's fine interpretation), and
Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos, Volume III, 1974 -- the premiere of which I missed, due to SRO at Swarthmore College, relatively soon before my enrollment there, and which, like pretty much all of above, I've loved throughout the years), plus
Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961 Gargoyles, Op. 29 (1989 -- considerably mellower than any Crumbian expression, the latter likes of which are certainly not to appear on conservative Music Choice any time soon), and
a fine meaningful, moving documentary on Jamie Raskin (b. 1962), Love and the Consititution (2022, which actually premiered on MSNBC on February 6).
Hmm, and speaking about someone who's been fighting the good fight against the Disgraced One-Time-Occupant Orange Dictatorial Wanna-Be, not much new news today, and that that's recycled apparently in print, re absconding with classified documents and Nixonian-like gaps in the (January 6) phone record.
Indeed, rather a printy day with more comparative historiography from the World Book Encyclopedia (1965), including specious / suspicious shadows in the Moon article (exactly how could sunlight cast the back left mountains brightly illuminated, with foreground shadows splaying to left and right? -- answer: it couldn't...),
an intriguing realization re the Muses (only one devoted to the from-whence-derived Music [Polyhymnia - Sacred Song], yet all arguably at least tangentially referencing), and
Munich (perhaps more needed on mountains and the Beer Hall Putsch... and Nazi's "well remembered"?!)...