Finish up the George Crumb (1929-2022) Chronological Listening Festival, including
Metamorphosis (Book I): Ten Fantasy-Pieces (after celebrated paintings) for Amplified Piano (2017),
which inspires the start of a new piece
Modern Painters, Op. 384 (2020)
with
1834 James Abbott McNeil Whistler (d. 1903) - Arrangement in Black and Grey No. 1 (1871)
A high-tessitura, inverted, major variant of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Peter and the Wolf (1936): Grandfather, mostly done on gray / white instruments, overlain by a whistling birdcall derived from Crumb's Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972): VI. Night-Spell I
Sketching out the rest as
1848 Paul Gauguin (d. 1903) - Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) (1888)
1853 Vincent van Gogh (d. 1890) - The Starry Night (1889)
1862 Gustav Klimt (d. 1918) - Portrait of Adel Bloch-Bauer (1907)
1863 Edvard Munch (d. 1944) - The Scream (1893)
1866 Wassily Kandinsky (d. 1944) - The Blue Rider (1903)
1869 Henry Matisse (d. 1954) - The Dance (1910)
1871 Georges Rouault (d. 1958) - The Old King (1936)
1872 Piet Mondrian (d. 1944) - Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943)
1879 Paul Klee (d. 1940) - Little Blue Devil (1933)
1881 Pablo Picasso (d. 1973) - Les Demoiselles d'Avingnon (1907)
1882 Edward Hopper (d. 1967) - Nighthawks (1942)
1886 Oskar Kokoschka (d. 1980) - Bride of the Wind (1914)
1887 Marc Chagall (d. 1985) - The Fiddler (1914)
1887 Georgia O'Keeffe (d. 1986) - My Backyard (1937)
1891 Grant Wood (d. 1942) - American Gothic 1930)
1904 Salvador Dali (d. 1989) - Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
1917 Andrew Wyeth (b. 2009) - Overflow (1978)
1927 George Alburger - Mark Alburger (1979)
1930 Jasper Johns - The Perilous Night (1982)
1943 Simon Dinnerstein - Purple Haze (1991)
Sequence Music, Op. 23 (1982).
Further explorations re the 1965 version of the World Book Encyclopedia, at preent presnet comparing / contrasting Volume N-O with the 1995 edition,
noting that neither has a picture of the nuclear destruction of Nagasaki,
and the earlier seems to refer to a man from Natal with a juvenile term (while showing none of the landscape).
Rather intriguing article on names, updated reasonably for '95;
a bit of a dig on the "quiet" Naples Harbor, when, in picture opposite, looks pretty active; and
perhaps not enough condemnation for Napoleon.
The National Anthem article proves serendipitous w/r/t the start of yesterday's piece (however, only one African country mentioned in 1965: Ethiopia), and the National Geographic Society entry looks a tad imperialist, wtih a photograph of an expedition to Nepal, whether desired or not --
while the articles on Natiional Forests, Monuments,
and
Parks were part of a growing realizaton at a young age that most of the scenic splendors of America were in the West,
as far east as
western Nebraska.
Speaking about the Pacific side of the country,
time to head out with
Harriet
Vacaville Streets Walk
today from
Cactus Parking
northwest
around
the
Greenspace,
then back
via chatting with a
a friendly woman who has been dubbed by her card-playing friends as
"Mean Marilyn."
12th day of summer,
high down 3 to
70,
also the birthday of
Giordano
Bruno
(1548-
1600),
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), and
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834),
Aaron Montgomery Ward (1843-1913).
The former recalls the Robert Ashley (1930-2014)
Private Parts (1978 -- re-listened-to-day, of late, of course), specificially the lines
"Giordano Bruno comes to mind, whoever he is...
Giordano Bruno shot...
Giordano Bruno... I think they burned him... He was too positive... Fight fire with fire..."
(OK, since I'm evoking this, might as well update and re-organize chronologically the Giordano Bruno musical references in Wikipedia)....
The second birthday boy motivates a listen of
Sonata di nChiesa, Op. 1, No. 1 (1681).
The Doomsday Economist's portrait above, by
John Linnell (1792-1882),
who also painted fine
landscapes of the English
Peak District's
Dovedail regain,
aslo depictied nicely by
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797).
And, as for the latter birthday'd individual, what can we say but
Meredith Willson - The Music Man (1957): XIII. Wells Fargo Wagon (1962, film)
"Montgomery Ward sent me a bathtub and a cross-cut saw!"
In the evening,
out for the first Davis Community Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir rehearsal since just before Christmas Eve,
with other
multi-media scattered throughout the day including
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) - Terpsichore (1612),
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Oboe Concerto in C Major, RV 447 (1724),
J.S. Bach (1685-1950) - Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G Minor, BWV 1058 (1734)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major, Op. 55 (1803),
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (1842),
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 42, No. 3 (1842),
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) - Im Fruling Overture, Op. 36 (1889),
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Crown of India, Op. 66 (1912 -- hmm, more than a little imperialist...),
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) - Suite No. 1 in F Major for 2 Pianos (1888),
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - The Children's Corner (1908): I. Dr. Gradus ad Parnassus, and
En Blanc et Noir (1915),
Joseph Marx (1882-1964) - Castelli Romaini for Piano and Orchestra in Eb Major (1930),
Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) - Sinfonietta (1944),
Grace Williams (1906-1977) - Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940), and
finishing up the Crumb Festival with
American Songbook VII (Voices from the Heartland) (2010),
Yesteryear (2013), and
Metamorphoses, Volume II (2019), +
news of the Criminal Family being obliged to
testify in New York,
a new storm system wrecking havoc in the country's interior (as reported by the newly-established Fox Weather -- will there be any reality re Climate Change ?), and
SHS Reunion Zoom anew...