Vladimir Putin
illegally, shamefully "authorizes" Russian troops over the Ukranian border, and,
by evening here, it's February 24 in the Eastern Hemisphere and the invasion is horribly on, still in the depths of winter.
Our hearts are there, with, really, the fate of the whole world in the balance, as the largest Europan incursion since World War II seems to be unfolding; but, as for here, temperatures warming up a bit,
on the 40th day of spring,
high up 2 to 58 -- the 337th birthday of
G.F. Handel (1685-1759).
Out
mid-
day
for
various
logistical
matters,
both
fiduciary
and
supply-
chain-
related,
then,
eventually,
hopping
homeward
to
update the Works site as to
Street Songs, Op. 29 (1985)
produce more text re
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 22-23
1am Extend Tongue Out to Try to Taste the World...
2am Red Spangly Surface on Mirror....
3am Animal Heads on People's Bodies, with Glowing Eyes and Mouths...
Working Feverishly to Get Grades In / Shoes On / No, That Was Done 2 Months Ago...
5am Sitcom / Daytime Quiz Show -- Restore Balance, They Could Have Done It w/o a Loser,
and Now He's the Loser...
8am 4 Affairs w/ 4 Women, Taking a Rental Car and Speeding Around in Nevada,
Only to Get a Ticket and Reprimanded by Company,
Relating This on a Couch to One by a Fire, Becoming a Wonderful 8th Grade Classs Teacher...
and compose
Modern Painters, Op. 384 (2022)
1839 Paul Cezanne (d. 1906) - Mont Sainte-Victoire (1906)
to the counterpoint of impending war and
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Organ Lyre Concerto No. 5 (1786): II
Conrad Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) - Symphony No. 4 in F Major, after Ovid's Metamorphoses: Resue of Andromeda by Perseus (1781),
Niels Gade (1817-1890) - Symphony No. 7 in F Major, Op. 46 (1864),
Josef Rheinberger (1839-19091) - Flute Rhapsodie, Op. 27 (1868),
Claude Debussy (1860-1918) - Suite Bergamasque (1905): IV. Passepied,
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) - Entry March of the Boyars (1893) and
Suite Ancienne, Op. 31 (1911): Sarabande (evidently MC really like this guy -- you'd think he's more popular than R. Strauss...),
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Symphony No. 8 in Eb Major, Op. 77 (1906),
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1936) - Zaporozhy Cossacks (1921),
Natanael Berg (1879-) - Symphony No. 4 ("Pezzo Sinfonico") (1918 -- and, OK don't get me started re these Russians and this Berg as opposed to others, including Alban....), and
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Napoli Suite (1925): III. Caprice Italien, +
Stephen Colbert's
description of thhe Former Occupant (not mentioned by name by the Late Show host since November 7, 2021) as Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS, and
Ivanka "In talks with January 6 Committee about cooperating in investigation", which is akin to
Laurie Anderson (b. 1947) -
Big Science (1982): II. Big Science...
Hey Pal! How do I get to town from here?
And he said: Well just take a right where
they're going to build that new shopping mall,
go straight past where they're going to put in the freeway,
take a left at what's going to be the new sports center,
and keep going until you hit the place where
they're thinking of building that drive-in bank.
You can't miss it. And I said: This must be the place....
some of the day's issues discussed on Zoom with both Opus Project and
Family folks....