Birthday of Henry Cowell (1897-1965),
happily remembered in San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's West Coast premiere (2005),
conducted by yours truly, of his
Symphony No. 13 ("Madras") (1958), re-listening of which merits copying the video from the SFCCO YouTube channel (recording there doesn't seem to be triggering at present) and uploading as below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz6X0IFNXBU
+ enriching a bit the Wikipedia article on same.
Also the birthdays of
Carl Ruggles (1876-1971 -- pictured here as The Sun Treader, 1834, by
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975... Benton's Self-Portrait with [his wife] Rita [Piacenza], 1924, just one of his many
highly-charged [Persephone, 1939]
works [Again, 1941]) --
oh, yes, might as well re-review, indeed, Ruggles's Sun-treader (1931),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMOyDhxwfM
and
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) -- how about his
Suite for Piano, Op. 2 (1943).
Interestingly none of these fine 3 are mentioned in the March birthdays of the World Book from 1965 or 1995, where
Torquato Tasso (1544-1596) reigns sole-ly supreme for the day...
More listenings of the day: double-dose of F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) symphonic opera (i.e. opus numbers) -- to wit
Symphony No. 94 in G Major ("Surprise"), Op. 80
and
Symphony 96 in D Major ("Miracle"), Op. 77, No. 2 (both of 1791), plus
Alexander Borodin (1833) - Petite Suite (1885),
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 (1880),
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Tuba Concerto in F Minor (1954),
Nicolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950) - Symphony No 23 ("Symphony Suite on Karbandian Themes"), Op. 56 (1941),
a two-pronged sortie of Alfredo Casalla (1883-1947) -Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 12 (1909) and
Symphony No. 3, Op. 63 (1940),
Carlos Surinach (1915-) - Sinfonietta Flamenca (1953), and
Samuel Adler (b. 1928) - Symphony No. 4 (1967) --
some of all this in counterpoint to partially updating the Works site on
Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992),
completely updating the day's additional text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
March 10-11
12noon On a Back Enclosed Porch: Have a Snack; I've Had a Snack, and Everyone Moves...
2pm Ungainly New Giant Red Brick Building on Swarthmore Campus Near
Road-Crossing of Train -- not George Washington, d. 1776 -- not
3am Phone Miraculously Appears on Household Wall...
Computer on Lap Does Not Exist... Op. 47...
5am Hussein as Ernsest Well-Spoken Entrepreneur-Type Calling Me Late at a
Sandwiich Bar with Delicious Bread that Is Just Closing Up, Last Call, Think,
Meat-Laden Fare, He Has an Idea for Concert and Venue, and
We'll Run with It, a Very Competant Concert Previous,
w/ Some Sheet Music Practical Issues... He's On the Phone First to Me, and Then Live...
8am First Along Rocky, Precipy Naked Ridges, Leaving Dad, Up, Up, Some Good Pictures,
Area Hollows Out Into Man-Made Giant Cave w/ Windows in a Monolith, Quite Touristy,
a Stairway Up from One Side, Along a Riverbank, or Indeed, an Island,
Views of Washington-State-Style, Lush Mountains All Around,
Now Panorama Function of This Old-Style High-Tech Camera Definitely Not Workng Well,
Tourists Often Getting in Way of Attempted Pictures, Cool Canyon Declivities,
Misssed Oportunities, Quite Frustrating, Wake Up and Realized What's Going On...
Camera Has a Number to Call on It, If Trouble Is Being Experienced... To No Avail...
Some of the Rock-Hoppping Previous Downright Miraculous,
Scree and Conglomerate, Quite Potentially Dangerous, But No Problem...
When Waking Up and Grabbing Computer, Screeen Very Granular for an Interval /
Moment... A Thumping Sound in the Ears, Then the Typical Washing Machine...
There's a Restaurant in the Monolith, and Multi-Cultural Tourists Enjoying All...
The Side Canyons Are Much Taller Than Wide -- Combination of Southern Utah and CA /
Washington Fern Ravines... New Evolutionary Trend: Mendelbolism...Mendibble-ism...
And They All Laughed... Floating...
and star the parts re
Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2020) from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015)
with that of Piccolo.
Time to go out
for the 31st walk of the Vacaville Streets series,
chronicled northwest on Yosemite,
around the bend to
Grand Canyon (where Harriet and I have parked) and thence
northwest to its junction with Plumas,
on the
22nd day of summer,
high up 6 to 75
(last few days vascillating between spring and summer temps),
mindful of the ongoing injustices in Ukraine...