Feeling slightly medically desparate, upload
Symphony No. 9 ("From the West"), Op. 117 (2004)
I. Shuffle
to
the
International Music Score Library Project --
note, this is only the first movement, because you know what they say about completed last movements of this symphonic ilk --
then again, there's
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - 104 numbered + 2-3 additional, depending on the source...
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) - 41 numbered, perhaps as many as 68 total...
Nicolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950) - 27
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975 - 15
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) - 67 numbered, perhaps as many as 75 total...
to name a few, so there is precident.
Nevertheless, not planning on completing the last note of the last (4th) movement until Full Mark at 100, if / when (2057). Halfway Mark was the 50th anniversary concert, back in 2007...
Feeling better already -- so, as for rest of today, begin updating
Iliad Songs, Op. 45 (1992) on the Works site,
a bit more text re
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
March 11-12
5pm Baby as Terrorist...
6am Lawrence O'Donnell: "Lamb Beau Lynn"
9am Anything to Make It Worth My While, Utah? A Slate of Paragraphs....Pull On This...
and produce the
English Horn part for
Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022) from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015)
Novel III. Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters a gang of robbers
(Madrigals, Book II [1962]: III. Cabalito Negro - Little Black Horse)
Outing for the day is the
32nd of the Vacaville Streets series,
this time Southeast on
Plumas from Grand Canyon to
Yosemite,
reversing
course
on the penultimate to a prominant fire hydrant,
on the 23rd day of summer,
high down 3 to 72:
the anniverary of the dam failure in Southern California's
San Francisquito Canyon (1928) and the grimness of the
Anschluss (1938) -- The Nazi's takeover of Austria, propagandized as a "Union" -- featured in
LX. 1938 - Anschluss (Alma's Departure)
... also the birthdays of
Thomas Arne (1710-1778 -- wow! how about
Four Symphonies, 1767),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBbCEOwom-k
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969 -- with Neal Cassady, 1928-1968, at left... a.k.a. Dean Moriarity and Sal Paradise in Kerouac's On the Road, 1957,
duly musicalized in 2004 as
Op. 112),
Edward Albee (1928-2016 -- nice portrait above by
Reginald Gray, 1930-2013, above in a self-portrait, 2008), and
Jake Tapper (1969).
The F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) Symphonic Opus Festival concludes with
Symphony No. 97 in C Major, Op. 83, No. 1 (1792),
Symphony No. 98 in Bb Major, Op. 82, No. 2 (1792),
Symphony No. 99 in Eb Major, Op. 98 (1793),
Symphony No. 100 in G Major ("Military"), Op. 90 (1794),
Symphony No. 101 in D Major ("Clock"), Op. 95, No. 2 (1794),
Symphony No. 102 in Bb Major, Op. 98, No. 2 (1794),
Symphony No. 103 in Eb Major ("Drumroll"), Op. 95, No. 1 (1795), and
Symphony No. 104 in D Major ("London"), Op. 98, plus a leap forward to
Mildon Babbitt (1916-2011) - Three Compositions for Piano (1948), and a triple-play each of a triumvirate, being:
Benjamin Lees (1924-2010) - Three Piano Preludes (1962),
Odyssey No. 2 (1986),
Odyssey No. 3 (2005);
Henri Pousseur (1929-2009) - Characteres (1961),
Les Ephemerides d'Icare 2 (1970),
Paysages Planetaires (2000 -- geographically multicultural!);
Louis Andriessen (b. 1939) - De Staat (The Republic, 1976 -- a particularly welcome first listening!),
Mausoleum (1979),
De Tijd (1981).