Begin
Periodic Table, Op. 386 (2022)
with
I. Hydrogen
inspired by title of Andrew Stiller (b. 1946) - A Periodic Table of the Elements (1988) --
discovered in works list for Orchestra 2001 (recorded on A Descent Into the Maelstrom, 1995), as found in Jim Freeman's Making Music Together (2021) --
a nicely Stravinskian snippet of which can be heard at All Music.
As for present piece, first movement begins with Hydrogen's symbol H, transmuted to the German notation h = b-natural -- so, seems appropriate to trope that Alban Berg (1885-1935) Wozzeck (1922): Act III, 2-3 Scene Change music, sending it aerial in glissandi, since Hydrogen is so light, which can appropriately also include an alteration of Berg's clangerous chord, standing in for the Big Bang, and the creation of this first Element...
In doing research on Andrew Stiller, who certainoy merits a Wikipedia article, happen upon his presence on All Music and Musicalics... so, can't help but see what goes on there for
someone else (not much, but it's a start)...
Also partially update the Works website re
Duo Sonata No. 2, Op. 31 (1986 -- need 2 more YouTube videos eventually)
and more text, seemingly of course, vis a vis
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 24-25
1am Multiple Purple Toothbrushes of Various Kinds in Wrapped See-Through Containers...
6am Keisuke Relocated to Below Stage Side Facing Dancer,
Rather than Center Below Facing Audience, w/ Mirror...
8am Keeping Cliff in Bay Area w/ Good Comfort Food...
Harriet's Absence and Then Return Provokes Hugs and Tears...
Putin's
invasion
of
Ukraine
continues
its
diabolic
course
with
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (b. 1978) proving a hero for Ukraine and
the World.
In
our
corner,
23rd Vacaville Streets Walk,
now from
Central Park of
East Glacier,
northwest / southeast to
the Greenspace and Bike Path construction,
on the 42nd say of spring, high up 4 to 64, which is also the 181st birthday of
Pierre-August Renoir (1841-1919, here in a self-portrait, 1899) --
with the non-Ukrainian media backing of
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 18, No. 2 (1799),
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - Symphony No. 4 in A Minor ("Italian"), Op. 90 (1833),
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D Major (1847),
Peter Tchaikovsky (1841-1893) - Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (1888),
Anton Arensky (1961-1906) - Suite No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 7 (1885),
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - Divertimento after Piano Pieces by Francois Couperin, Op. 86 (1942): IV. Les Fauvettes Plaintives,
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Suite on English Folk Songs ("A Time There Was"), Op. 90 (1974),
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) - Symphony No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 45 (1949),
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926) - Játékok (Games) for Piano
Book 1
1. Prelude & Waltz in C
2. Palm Stroke (1)
3. Wrong Notes Allowed (1)
4. Palm Stroke (2)
5. Wrong Notes Allowed (2)
6. Flowers We Are... (1b)
7. Flowers We Are... (1a)
8. Dot-Strumming,
9. ... flowers Also the Stars... ,
10. Out and In (1)
11. Objet Trouvé
12. Elbows,
13. Hommage À Verdi (For Piano Duet) ·
14. Walking,
15. C's Night Song,
16. F-Sharp's Night Song,
17. Little Chorale (1)
18. Toddling,
19. Staggering,
20. Staggering (For Piano Duet)
21. Bored,
22. Rocking,
23. Hommage À Bartók,
24. Let’s Be Silly
25. Silent Palms
26. Playing With Overtones (1 - Hommage À Kocsis Zoltán)
27. Sound Eclipse
28. Hommage À Máriassy Istvan (Detecting Chords)
29. the Bunny and the Fox
30. Legato
31. Waltz (1)
32. the Stone Frog Crawled Along
33. Hot Cockles
34. Flowers We Are... (2)
35. Fifths (2)
36. the Young Boxer’s Lighter Moments
37. Sleepily
38. Portrait
39. Five Little Pianos Pieces
40. Five Little Piano Pieces (3)
41. Three-Finger Play
42. Gallop
43. Five Little Piano Pieces (4)
44. Five Little Piano Pieces (5)
45. Boisterous Csárdás
46. Jerking
47. Sound and Sound-Ball
48. Melancholic Overtones
49. Little Chorale
50. Flowers We Are… (3)
51. Sound and Sound-Ball (2)
52. Sarabande,
53. Out and In (2)
54. Scherzando ·
55. Fifths and Fourths and Palm Strokes
56. Hommage À Beethoven
57. Playing With Overtones (2)
58. Falling Asleep
59. Scale from One to Eight
60. Knots (1)
61. Flowers We Are… (4a)
62. Flowers We Are… (4b)
63. Meandering Tune (For Piano Duet) ·
66. Micro-Rondo
67. Hommage À Ligeti
68. Sidling Palms
69. Beating ·
70. Hommage À Tchaikovsky
71. Hommage À Eötvös Péter
72. Hommage À Paganini
73. Hoquetus (For Piano Duet) ,
74. Perpetuum Mobile,
75. …and Once More: Flowers We Are…
Also noting the death of
Sally Kellerman (1937-2022) yesterday and the official nomination by Joe Biden of
Ketanji Brown Jackson (b. 1970) as a candidate for the Supreme Court...