Partially update
Songs for Rebecca, Op. 34 (1988)
on https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/
incorporate more text vis a vis
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 27-28
7am Conclude an Oudoor Introduction / Farewells, Before Moving Away and Getting Sick,
Twice, Before Departure on a Bike Trip, w/ Items Perched Dangerously on Seat,
But Not Losing Any, Down a Path, New Because Old One Overgrown,
This the Wrong Way Facing Oncoming Traffic of a Sparsely Driven Interstate,
Approaching a Bridge, Proceeding in the Wrong Direction...
9am Maze-Like Modernist, Steel Alluminum Reflective Covered Building in Southern CA /
France, We Have a Festive Dinner, Leave Computer for Futher Exploration,
Eventually Leading Into a Maze of Bathrooms, No Clear Way Out,
Finally a Woman Suggests an Emergncy Duct, I Posit Pulling Alarm Levers,
Now Outside w/ Sarcastic French Police,
They Tell Us We Immediately Come Across as American Tourists,
We Make Our Way Up a Slope, Looking Down at Long Relatively Thin Building in Canyon,
This the Gentler Sloped Side,
I Say Something Snide Back that Everyone Emigrates to America and
Not so Many to France...Earlier Great Views Out of Building and Then Not...
Tawny California Relatively-Treeless Hills All Around....
and compose
43 Max Reger (1873-1916)
Mid-day 24th walk on the Vacaville Streets Route:
East Glacier southeast from Central Park
with darling Harriet to
Yellowstone,
thence
southwest
towards
a
shuttle
on the
16th day of summer,
high up 4 to 77, the 146 birthday of
John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951), meriting a listen to his
Concertino for Piano (1914), as well as
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Orchestral Suite No. 2 (1739): I. Ouverture,
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - Harold in Italy, Op. 16 (1834),
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 (1909),
and a double dose of Witold Lutoslawki (1913- in a complete Concerto for Orchestra (1953), augmented by
Harriet updates
her blog as
Day 5
Putin Invasion of
Ukraine rages,
with the Ukrainians
putting up fierce resistance and
the
Russians
at least
a
bit
stalled.
Mid-afternoon meeting with Ben Sabey re the prospects of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra rehearsing and performing at SF State, and early-evening
second session and
enlgihtening complete reading of
Chris Erdman's
What Lies Hid Beneath the Bones of this Great Tree (2021)...