Still plenty to do in retirement, such as partially updating the Works site re
The Passion According to St. Matthew, Op. 55 (1997)
finishing the parts for
Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 302 (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)
with Cello / Bass,
and
aligning more text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
March 20-21 (After Seeing Adventure Movie The Rock Excerpts,
Several Days After El Dorado / Monterey / Grand Canyon Suburban-Street-Names Walk)....
9am S. California Coastal Beach House, Warm Sunny Inland, Cool Cloudy Coast,
Take Hike That Takes Me Beyond a Nature Preserve Fence Inland to Built Up Area,
Haven't Brought All My Gear, Shall I Go Back?, Path Leads to a Sandy Beach,
But It's On Inland Side of Coast Road, Not On Water, Am Barefoot, How to Proceed,
Along Bridge w/ Dangerous Fall-Offs, Semi-Ruined...Palms and a Narrow Green Path Inland,
Fence Totally Covered by Unruly Rampant Vegetation... Instead of Going Back,
Intending to Do a Great Triangular Loop.... Tall Multi-Cultural Supreme Court Member,
Stands in Our Front Yard from Green Adirondack Chair...
Tall Female Conductor Has Successful Concert, Then Heath Problems...
10am Harriet to a Home Supply Store, Ahead of Me, Through Glass, She Is Distracted,
Another Customer Brings an Alter-Ego with Her, in a White Plastic Bag...
As Putin's efforts at
total destruction of Ukraine continue,
we are granted normal life
for now --
Harriet and I on the 36th Vacaville Streets Walk,
parking at the very-California-but-geographically impossible junction of Sequoia and Monterey,
walking on the latter mythically northeast to El Dorado,
then
'bout
facing
back,
and
beyond
on
the
former to
Yosemite.
Errands
afoot
thereafter,
on the
30th day of
summer,
high up 10 to 85
(highest of year thus far) --
the birthday of
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750 -- his incomplete
The Art of Fugue, 1750, posing many questions),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXkN0TKZotA&list=PLF6D46B4F0FB36BD3
Benito Juarez (1806-1872,
memorialized in many ways including by the Ciudad just south of El Paso), and
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881, whose
Khovanshchina, was left almost complete in piano score upon his death, heard here in the 1958 orchestration by Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906-1975).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8E7J3TWNDg
The daily hit list is a double-dose of
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) - Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8 (1915) and
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10 (1918), plus
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) - String Quartet No. 4 (1967) and
Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) - Star Trek (1966): Season 2, Production 37
The Changeling (1967), featuring music of Fred Steiner (1923-2011).
But the biggest media blitz of the day is the beginning of Confirmation Hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson (b. 1970),
where the good judge holds up in superhero fashinon against a dumber of dirty-pool Republicans.
At times the session is on a par with Kenji Bunch (b. 1973) - Magic Hour (2008)... at other intervals, decidedly not...