February 14 - In Season


Happy Valentines to all! --

the visual a detail from

Raphael (1483-1520) - Sistine Madonna (1514)

which should also work for a separate publication of

Isaiah, Op. 175 (2009)
     VIa. Duo Seraphim

as opposed to the visual initially contemplated for the "VD" Card...

Bronzino (1503-1572 - depicted above by

Alessandro Allori, 1535-1607) -


Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (1545).

Continue on the Isaiah editing with

VIII. Mahershalalhashbaz

Update the Works list re


Embedded Inventions, Op. 20 (1979)

and the seemingly inevitable update of

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     February 13-14
          2am One Giant Raisin Box in Refriegerator Door from Which Is Eaten; the Other, Empty...


Out 


with Harriet


on 


a


rather


practical


outing,



down


to


Suisun


City


and


the


Social


Security


Office,


trying to get satisfaction re getting return email or phone call,


but still no luck


(no admitance w/o appointment,


and, 


when calling,


no appointments can be made at this time...


Catch in the Year 22!). 


Nevertheless, nice trip,


with


a


continued


scenic


return


on


12,


Chadbourne,


and


I-


80 --


via

errands

that

include

the

traditional

candy

and

flowers... a truly delightful afternoon, on this the 25th day of spring, high cascading down 14 to 65 -- the birthday of

Babur (1483-1530),

Nina Hamnett (1890-1956 --

    here in a 1917 portrait by Roger Frye, 1866-1934),

Carl Bernstein (b. 1944),

Kitten Natividad (b. 1948,

   who first came to attention after moving to Southern California), and


Renee Fleming (b. 1959).

Then back to work, with the morning and evening audio-visuals including

Johan Svendsen (1840-1911) - Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op. 52 (1907)

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C Major, Op. 53 (1883)

Sergi Taneyev (1856-1915) - Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 12 (1901 -- hmm, definitely have a C tonality going on here today...),

Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) - Iberia, Book II (1906): IV. Rondena


Frederick Delius (1862-1934) - Appalachia (1902),


Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) - Star Trek (1966) - Season 1, Episode 8 - Charlie X, featuring music of Fred Steiner, 1923-2011),

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Gloriana, Op. 53 (1953): Courtly Dances, and quite a lot more of the George Crumb (1929-2022) festival, to wit:

     Processional (1983),


     A Haunted Landscape (1984),


    The Sleeper (1984),


     An Idyll for the Misbegotten (1986),


     Federico's Little Songs for Children (1986),


     Zeitgeist (1988),


     Easter Dawning (1991),


      Quest (1994), and


      Mundus Canis (1998) --


with only smatterings of the ongoing criminalities continuing to be exposed by the heroic January 6 Commission...