Thanks to a reading at
Davis Community Presbyterian Church, begin
Colossians Collisions, Op. 395 (March 20, 2020)
For Voices and Wind Dectet
Also start update on the Works site re
do the analagous, so to speak, as to text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
March 19-20
4am Cliff and I at Very Small Eat-Indoor In'N'Out, We Separate, I Am Confronted by an
Aggressive Fundamentalist / Trumpist / Own the Libs Blond Who Picks a Verbal Fight,
I Try to Ignore Her, Leave, I Go In, People Eating in Restaurant But Cooking Area Dark,
and A Large Black Woman Confirms That Kitchen Is Closed, I Go Out,
Avoiding the Fundy Woman, Pants Are Drooping, Step in One-Seater Bathroom to Fix,
Door Not Secure, She Tries to Get In, I Attempt to Re-Hook Manual Lock, Then Come Out,
Look Around, Announce My Son Has Disappeared, She Joins in Search, Cliff Is Found,
I Say to Her, I Would Not Mind Talking to an Adversary If She Is Civil, She Starts to Soften,
and Agrees....
and ready the Violin / Viola parts for
Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022) from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015).
Ovid (43 BC - AD 18) and
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) --
heading
out
early
to
Davis
and
the
church,
for a
fine service, performing
Felice Anerio (1560-1614) - Chrisus factus est pro nobis (c. 1590).
Afterwards,
head
homeward
on
I-80
for
a
few hours off before
heading
forth
again
southwest
(Lagoon Valley,
A & A,
Cordelia,
Sulfur
Springs
Mountains,
Vallejo,
Carquinez Bridge,
views of Mt. Tamalpais
and
Albany Hill)
towards
the
Berkeley Hills
and
Hillside
Club
to support Eliza O'Malley's operatic efforts (good to see Frank Johnson, our pianist for
2017, Op. 261,
back in the day),
including fine performances of Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), the latter a duet from Dialogues of the Carmelites (1953) -- all accompanied by Alex Katsman.
Off
we
go
again.
Again
on
I-80 --
through
the
canyons,
over
the
bridge,
over
the
mountains,
(after
Heraclitus, c. 535-475 BC,
you can't
pass by
the same ridge
twice),
across
the
Valley,
back to Davis,
chez Chris Erdman's
for the
prospective new members
class.
A fine time,
and
homeward at last,
via Covell,
93A,
Russell,
Winters,
I-
505
South,
Monte Vista, on the 29th day summer (from a temperature point of view), high up 11 to 75.
Davis, 72
Fairfield, 76 (N.B. it rarely, if ever, feels warmer here, in writer's experience)
Pinole / Berkeley, 66
Media for the day (fore, in-between, and aft) includes:
Glaude Gervaise (1525-1583) - Passamezzo d'Ialye (1555),
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Symphony No. 1 in Ab Major, Op. 55 (1908)
Max Reger (1873-1916) - 6 Solo Violin Preludes and Fugues, Op. 131a (1914),
Joaquin Rodrigo (19011999) - A L'Ombre de Torre Bermeja (1945),
2 Benjamin Lees (1924-2010, who I interviewed, way back when) piano works:
Ornamental Etudes (1957) and
Three Preludes (1962), plus
PBS shows -- an enlightening indictment on Women's Voting Rights, as well as a classic
Huell Howser (1945-2013) - California's Gold (1991): Episode 125. Springtime in Death Valley (2005).