MARK ALBURGER, 2022: February 9

Seems about time to do a George Crumb (1929-2022) retrospective, not totally easy, since the works list on Wikipedia is organized by genre, but here goes, re a chronology of what's available on YouTube -- much of this already in our iTunes (sorry! Music!) collection...

Three Early Songs (1947),

Cello Sonata (1955),

Variazioni (1959)....

OK, a start, we'll get back to more... as the rest of the day's listenings are

Frederick Delius (1862-1934) - Air and Dance (1915),

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - The Lark Ascending (1914),

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Symphony No. 7, Op. 131 (1952),

Henry Cowell (1897-) - Sailor's Hornpipe (1952),

George Gershwin (1898-1937) - Lady Be Good (1924): The Man I Love,

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) - Violin Concerto in D Minor (1940),

Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) - Symphony No. 1, Op. 10 (1942),

Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 (1948),

Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, Op. 79 (1963 -- yes, looks like a mini-Weinberg festival here, too), and

Steven Stucky (1949-2016) - Double Concerto for Oboe, Violin, and Chamber Orchestra (1985 -- this performance featuring Dorothy Freeman!).

All this tandem to updating the Works site re

Book ("Prehistoric Atlas"), Op. 15 (1979),

editing

Isaiah, Op. 175 (2009)
     IV. And in that Day,

and gleaning more text for

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     February 8-9
          5am Sticks and Stones and Filing a Colorful Benefit for SFCCO Online....
          8am Go from One Gourmet Taco Bell to Another, in Giant, Parallel-Aisles Mall,
               Before We Pay for Food, Initally Confused That We Are at a Different Fast Food,
               and It Takes a Long Time to Convince Self and Cliff to Go to Other....
               Hope We Don't Get into Trouble for Not Paying Until Second,
               Also Time in a Suspect Lit. Shop....
          9am Off to Another World in Spaceship through Time Portal / Wormhole,
               with Thick Legs Like Stacks of Paper...
          10am A Girlfriend Named Fig-Newton Debbie...