Harriet's Birthday!
So,
off
to
Davis
Community
Presbyterian
Church,
then
heading
via
Covell
and
Russell
towards
Winters
for
coffee and cake
at
Steady Eddy's.
Following this,
we
make
our
way,
west
along
Putah
Creek
and
south
into
beautiful
and
pleasant
(at
least
when
not
afire)
Pleasants
Valley --
a
graben
between the
English Hills and
Vaca Mountains,
ascending
to the
Oakdale Divide,
with views of Mt. Diablo,
Mix Canyon,
and the
Lagoon
Mountains.
Eventually
homeward
but
soon
on the road
again for
celebratory supplies
(a surprisingly hazardous endeabor)...
At last the celebration proper,
with cake, ice cream,
flowers, candy, party hats, and the
Birthday
Girl!
Happy
Anniversary,
Harriet! --
Recapitulated several hours later on Zoom...
An eventful day! The 15th of summer, first 70's temp since February 19, high zooming up 12 from yesterday to 73, with other birthday celebrants being Constantine (272-337),
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882),
Marian Anderson (1897-1993), and
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) --
time enough to compose
Periodic Table, Op. 386 (2022)
II. Helium
taking cues from He as German B - E, troped on music co-written by Zanhao He (b. 1933), ascending upward, and pretty much gathering on the ceiling in active canonic molecular-musical activity...
Additionally, partially update
San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, Op. 33 (1988)
on the Works List site, plus generate more text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 26-27
3am Tahoe Joe's with Bright Beach Colors... Off the Coast on a Submerged Jetty,
Worried a Bit That Will Get Swept Away, But There Are Others Around,
Make Way Back to Sand, Very Crowded Small Sunny Late-Afternoon Area,
Backed by Rocky Cliffs in Shade, Have to Negotiate Between and Step Over People,
Spectacular Vertical Rock Cliff, With People Sunbathing/ Shadebathing Upon,
Dangerous Overhangs, Some Sandy Areas, Almost Mountain-Climbing Net Platforms,
Some Dangling Upside Daown, Quite a Potential Fall to Bottom,
Onward To Take Picture of Same, But We're Farther,
More Civilized Like a Built-Up Ocean-City Oceanfront Hotel Row, or the Ponte Veccio,
Realize that I Will Have to Back Up / Go Forward to Get the Best Picture -- Before,
Stepping Over One Child Who's Buried His Legs Not Only in Sand, but in Rocks,
Some Nudist Denizens -- Beautiful Beach!
5am A Former Lover Tries to Establish a Beachhead in Bed w/ Me, and Is Rejected.
She Lies Straddling a Foot Off Floor w/ Impossible Features,
Has Her Revenge By Having a Large Black Dog Jump off Onto the Bed to
Fraternize, As I Attempt to Get Comfortable Amid Pillows...
As the
nightmare of
Putin's war in
Ukraine
continues
to
rage,
although not without glimmer of hope (stay tuned)!
Other sights and sounds of the day include
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Orchestral Suite No. 1 (1717): I. Ouverture,
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 103 in Eb Major ("Drum Roll") (1795): II. Adagio,
Muzio Clementi (1752-1732) - Sonatina No. 3 in C Major, Op. 36, No. 3 (1797): III. Presto,
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - 12 Variations on "Ein Madchen oder Weibchen", Op. 56 (1796),
Franz Schubert (1797-1928) - Symphony No. 9 ("The Great") (1826),
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 82 (1885),
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Nocturne No. 6 in Db, Op. 63 (1894),
Emil von Reznicek (1860-1945) - Donna Diana (1895): Overture,
Emil von Sauer (1862-1942 -- what are the odds of 2 Emil vons in a row in the day's chronological listening?) - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor (1895 -- and, again, compare to immediae previous!),
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - 6 Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 89 (1917),
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 26 (1906),
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951 -- Hey! Schoenberg featured on MC!) - Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4 (1899 -- well, despite Gustav Mahler [1860-1911] perception of its complexity, not exactly on my top 10 Schoenbergian list...),
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Cirandas (1926): XI. Nesta Rua Nesta Rua (In This Street),
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) - Escales 1922),
a double-dose (even a single a seemingly rare MC event) of Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) - Colas Breugnon, Op. 24 (1938) and
The Comedians, Op. 25 (1940), and
Lars Erik Larsson - Divertimento No. 2, Op. 15 (1935).
Also note with sadness, the death of Julie Ann Giacobassi (1949 - February 21, 2022), with a nice obituary in today's San Francisco Chronicle...