V. Empedocles Was Wrong
12 Preludes and Fugues ("Topical")
is brought to mind
during Chris Erdman's
first lecture
on
his intriguing What's Hid Beneath the Bones of This Great Tree (2021). Among other issues discussed are the importance of dream eperiences, which, of course, dovetails into the day's chronology in that regard as
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 20-21
4pm Just About to Walk into Store, Big Stack of Inserts from Newspaper Falls to Sidewalk...
5am Pulling into Shopping, Cars Leaving Blocking Potential Parking Spaces,
Cars Piling Up Behind...
8am Up Sun Valley, Towards a White Supremacist Rally,
Cars Being Chased That Attempt to Turn Around...
Also update the Works site for
Aerial Requiem, Op. 27 (1985)
and compose
38 George Gershwin (1898-1937)
The
day's
Vacaville Streets
Walk is
West Glacier from Central Park to
Yellowstone,
and
thence
that
to an East Isle Royale shuttle pickup,
on the 38th day of spring, high down 5 to 63 -- the birthday of
Carl Czerny (1791-1857) and
John Lewis (1944-2020), + the 50th anniversary of the
Richard Nixon (1913-1994) visit to China... to backing tracks of
Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299: I. Presto,
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 (1812 -- again!),
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) - Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (1896),
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1896),
Paul Dukas (1865-1935) - The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897),
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Andante Molto in F Minor (1887 -- definitely another MC favorite...),
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) - Roman Trilogy (1928),
Bela Bartok (1881-1943) - The Wooden Prince, Op. 13 (1917) and
The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19 (1924),
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Symphony in Three Movements (1945),
William Grant Still (1895-1978) - Symphony No. 2 in G Minor ("Song of a New Race") (1937),
Hector Gratton (1900-1970) - Canadian Dance No. 4 (1935),
Gunnar de Frumerie (1908-1987) - Pastoral Suite, Op. 13a (1936): II. Gavotte Musette
Ian Fleming (1908-1964) -
James Bond (1953) -
For Your Eyes Only
(short story, 1960 -
the film, 1984 -
impressive scenery
and music of
Bill Conti (b. 1942),
John Adams (b. 1947) - Nixon in China (1987),
as well as ongoing criminality here and
abroad.