Approaching 1 month of wedded bliss (this on the heels of 22 years of unmarried same), and Harriet turns the Christmas tree into a
celebratory nuptial one -- why not? --
before we turn out for the day's
Vacaville Streets Walk,
from East McKinley Central Parking to Yellowstone,
then
southwest
to
the
front,
on the
5th day of summer,
high again
81,
194th birthday of
Jules Verne (1828-1905)...
A pure numbers game, updating the Works list vis a vis
Seasons Eves, Op. 14 (1978),
edit
Isaiah, Op. 175 (2009)
III. Say unto the Righteous,
add text to
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
February 7-8
10am Spectacular House and a Color Swatch on the iPhone as Testimony to the 1/6 Commission
and create,
January 6, 2021, Op. 381 (2022)
1955 - Lindsey Graham (January 6, 11; March 8, 2021)
over an arresting co-conspiracy of
G.P. Telemann (1681-1767) - Water Music: Hamburg Ebb and Flow Suite (1723),
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 103 ("Drum Roll"): II. Andante
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), Op. 125 (1824),
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - Symphony No. 3 in A Minor ("Scottish"), Op. 53 (1842),
the implied Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Annees de Perelinage: First Year - Switzerland (1838), but contrast that nevertheless suggests Three Concert Etudes (1849): III. Un Sospiro,
Carl Goldmark (1830-1915 ) - Rustic Wedding Symphony in Eb Major, Op. 26 (1875)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (1878),
Christian Sinding (1856-1941) - Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 83 (1904),
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) - Fantasia on Russian Folk Songs, Op. 48 (1892)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-19215 - Symphony No. 1, Op. 26 (1900),
Ernst Bloch (1880-1959) - Poems of the Sea (1922),
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - The Rite of Spring (1913),
Eric Coates (1886-)1957 - London Suite (1933),
a Jimmy Kimmel (b. 1967) belly flop contest,
the beginning and
end of
Nimrod Antal (b. 1973) - Predators (2010, with music of John Debney, b. 1956), and
a PBS profile on
Lego artist
Nathan Sawaya.
The newsday features the Canadian truckers blockade,
continued condemnation by Republicans of the RNC's centures and characterizations
(well, at least by many--
ah this Cult of the
Mob... "there are so many of us!"!,
more tales of the Former-Criminal-in-Chief,
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff having to be whisked away from a school event due to a bomb threat, and
demagogue-wanna-be behavior from Ron DeSantis.
Also another animated San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Zoom planning meeting, +
perusing through the National Wildlife Foundation's news magazine
(featuring our hero Joe Biden re-establishing the proper bounds of Bears Ears National Monument that the Anti-Christ had severely compromised), and continuing the comparative historiography on the World Book Encyclopeia 1965 / 1995, continuing in the former's Volume M with
Mozambique (no condemnation of the de jure / facto slavery by the Portuguese),
Mules of Boron, CA, set against a black-and-white, low-elevation shot of the colorful mountainous Mojave,
Henry Melchior Muhlenburg (1711-1787), of College fame (the namesake of the intersection, w/ Amherst, where I waited for the schoolbus so many years ago), and
John Muir (1838-1914) -- no where specifying his Martinez homestead...