Auspicious day for the numerologically disposed,
updating the Works site for
Mary Variations, Op. 28 (1985),
providing more text vis a vis
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 21-22
7am Trying Not to Get Over the Calorie Content for a Cure to the Coronavirus,
Breaking Chocolate Pills to Ensure So...
8am The Backyard, Measuring, We Get the Check Outside the Social Secrity Office in
Suisun City in a Pose w/ Cliff... To Fife / Organ / String Renaissancy Dance Music...
10am Re-Walking Vacaville Streets... I Was in the North Country, Because He Lies,
Ascending Motive, Eighths: Rest A3 A3 B3 Dotted Quarters Staccato C4 A3,
and composing
Modern Painters, Op. 384 (2022)
1836 Winslow Homer (d. 1910) - The Gulf Stream (1899) --
all on this 39th interval of spring, high down 7 to 56, the birthdays of
George Washington (1732 -- same as F.J. Haydn! -- to 1799... 8 years after the death of W.A. Mozart),
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860...
who is evoked in Roberto Benigni, b. 1952) - Life Is Beautiful, 1997),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgo-PCQfQXU
Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1910 --
well mamorialized in the prominent peak of the
Transverse Range), and
Heinrich Hertz (the Boy Scott Founder further above's exact contemporary, but who died at rhe considerably younger age of 1894)...
the background media madness consisting of
Michael Praetorius (1560-1621) - Terpsichore (1612),
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Minor, BWV 1062 (1736)
Giovani Battista Sammartini (1700-1775) - Symphony (1730),
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - String Quartet No. 37 in B Minor ("Russian"), Op. 33, No. 1 (1871) and
81 in G Major, Op. 77, No. 2 (1799),
W.A. Mozart (1759-1791) - Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") in C Major (1788)
a documentary on Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865),
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) - Jeux d'Enfants (1875),
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Night on Bald Mountain (1869 -- original version, sans the Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1844-1908, alterations!),
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. 60 (1880),
Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) - Serenade No. 1, Op. 9 (1874),
Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937) - 15 Pieces, Op. 3 (1883): XV. Tarantelle,
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) - Goyescas No. 2 (1911): II. Complaints of the Maiden and the Nightingale,
Hans Hermann Wetzler (1870-1943) - Visionen, Op. 12 (1923),
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) - Cymbeline Suite (1915),
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) - Fugal Concerto for Flute and Oboe, Op. 40 (1923),
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) - Danzas Fantasticas (1919),
John Fernstrom (1897-1961) - Concertino for Flute, Small Orchestra, and Women's Chorus (1941),
Francesco Mignone (1897-1886) - Valsa Choro No. 11 (1955),
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) - Gayanne (1941): Lullaby,
the Charles Addams (1912-1988) Adams Family (1938) TV (1964) Season 1, Episode 21 The Addams Family Goes to Court (1965), and
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) - Concerto for Orchestra (1954, Music Choice, in it's non-wisdom inexplicably cutting it off after the second movement), +
the ongoing machinations of
Vladimir Putin's Russian forces on 3 sides Ukraine,
America's Lying Psychopath's
traitorous praising of Russia's,
Antony Blinken's noble-but-probably-futile efforts to de-escalate the situation,
and Barbara McQuaid's appropriate memo as to how the Traitorous Former Occupant could be at least initailly brought towards justice -- much of this on either side of another
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra planning meeting...