Is there
an
Endgame is sight for the pandemic? We shall see...
Meanwhile,
out with
Harriet for the 11th Vacaville Streets walk,
now from a midpoint on
East McKinley,
northwest to
Pollard Bend
then southwest
to the
Bike Path and
Greenspace...
on this
on this 4th day of summer,
high zooming up 9 to 81
(yay! -- yet again highest of year and first in 80's, though probably not good re global warming and fire season) --
marking the birthdays of Thomas More (1478-1535) and
Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
Errands
afterward,
then
return to update the Works site re
Three Places in America, Op. 13 (1978),
edit
Isaiah, Op. 175 (2009)
I. Hear, O Heavens
and
II. An't Gonna Study War No More,
plus produce
January 6, 2021, Op. 381 (February 5, 2022)
1964 - Jim Jordan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfFiozkjofs
all in call-and-response to
G.P. Telemann (1681-1767) - Orchestral Suite in D Major (1717): VIII. Rejouissance,
Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) - Symphony in G Major, Op. 13, No. 4 (1777): I. Presto,
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) - Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (1866),
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 (1884),
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) - Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 21 (1868),
a video of various quotations from the writings of Mark Twain (1835-1910, who died in Redding, CT, of Charles Ives [1874-1954] Three Places in New England [1914] fame),
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 (1887): IV. Db Major,
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) - Mascarade Suite (1922): VIII. Passepied
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Symphony No. 5, Op. 82 (1915 -- yet again!),
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) - Piano Concerto, Op. 39 (1904 -- one of the longest ever written, at 70 minutes, in 5 movements, the last of which featuring a male chorus!),
Enrique Granados (1867- 1916) - El Majo Discreto (1897),
Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877-1960) - American Rhapsody, Op. 47 (1953),
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Choros No. 6 (1926),
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Piano Concerto No. 5 in Gi Major, Op 55 (1932)
Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944) - Symphony No. 3 (1943 -- hm, that was just about it for the composer!),
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) - Symphony No. 15, Op. 141 (1971),
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) - Canzonetta for Oboe and Strings, Op. 48 (1978),
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) - Etruscan Concerto (1954), and
Eugene Fodor (1950-2011) on
and old Johnny Carson (1925-2005) show from 1977 playing
violin, here modeled by Micky Bells (b. 1987).
In other news,
the Republican Party's idiotic censure of
Liz Cheney (b. 1966) and Adam Kinzinger (b. 1978), and even more idiotic (if that's possible)
characterization of January 6, 2021 as "legitimate political discourse" --
is condemned not only by Democrats but also at least
some Republicatns,
but certainly not enough at present... Additionally,
Joe Biden (b. 1942) meets with the new German Chancellor Olaf Sholz (b. 1958),
over the Russian massed troops on the Ukraine border; and
news of the Lying Psychotic Psycopath's profitable coffee table book (his typical speed re content);
even less-literary (make that anti-) destruction and
theft of
documents; and his
despicable behavior on January 6, &,
of course, in general.
We lift our eyes unto the mountains, from whence cometh our salvation? From whence indeed...
Ah, yes, and how can we forget again the current tabulation (not much) of
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 6-7
8am Chorale as Drinking Song, Written On Walls, Spattered w/ Blood...
10am Crossing at Leisure and I-80, We Blink, But Do We Have the Light?