Begin the update of
on the Works site,
produce the Oboe / English Horn part for
Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022), from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015)
Novel VII. Pietro Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of Messer Amerigo,
his lord, gets her with child, and is sentenced to the gallows (Black Angels [1970]: I-V, VII, X)
and do the seemingly inevitable increase (big dream-time interval) of
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
March 22-23 (Stephen Colbert AWOL During Week of Ketanji Brown Jackson Sessions)...
2am George Washington Jogging in Town Center, Eggs and Other Supplies, Someone to Harriet,
at the Health Center: "Now, as to Your Grandfather..." Rhythmically Cheerful Music...
Dancing Tangos, Boss Is Carted Off in Armor-Like Medieval-Space Coffin, At Other End,
Compromissed by Worms Emerging from Eyes of Mask, "Well,
We Don't Have to Worry About that Brain", But He Gets Better...
4am Stephen Colbert: Joke Was Gonna Come Along, Video Was Gonna Be Cancelled....
7am Reverse Role-Play
8am Crossing Chris Erdman's Circle, a Republican Van Flips Around and Refuses to Stop,
Because, That's the Law....
9am A Cavernous Pharmacy (North Bay Therapy),
Walking the Middle Double Yellow Line on Nut Tree North While Pick-Up Trucks
Cut the Curve and Almost Plow Into Me.... Turning Around a Corner in San Francisco,
the Starbucks Is Now Russian (Ivan's or the Like)...
Sorry We're in Your Driveway (on Yosemite),
We're Here for a Hike and Should Be Leaving Soon..
10am Teaching Henry VIII Pastime w/ Good Company to Unruly Class in Central Area /
House w/ Multiple Rooms, People Coming and Going, Get Folks to Sing / Clap Rhythms,
Then Pitches and Lyrics, Folks Scattered at First But Corral to Central Area in Chairs,
Then More Late-Comers, Suddenly Not Enough Chairs, Discover Group
of 4 Young Women Have Almost-Locked Themselves in Adjacent Room,
Have Occasionally Thrown Some People Out Earlier, Finding These,
One Is Unresponsive on Floor, After All This, Will Have to Cancel Class and Deal w/
Situation... Before This, Teaching Them to Sing Major / Lydian and Minor / Dorian
Scales Derived from Pieces, and They Kind of Succeed Performing It All...
Pulling Up to Park on Grand Canyon, Just Far Enough to Talke Walk on Sequoia...
4 Goat Hall Singers, Including Eliza, Singing Opera....
Time for a walk --
38th of the Vacaville Streets series --
now Yosemite, parking at Plumas, and sauntering
northeast to
Town Center,
then southwest towards
Bryce, looping around on the Bike Path,
past the Greenspace,
and back to
the car.
Meandering
return
via
Rushmore,
White Sands, and
Teton...
on the 32nd day of summer,
high down 5 to 83 -- this being also the birthdays of
John Bartram (1699-1777, of Philadelphia's
Bartram's Gardens, est. 1728, which I'm embarassed I've never seen live, located in what is by now the built-up industrial-residential area of Southwestern Philadelphia) and
Franz Scheker (1878-1934,
represented here by his 1916 Chamber Symphony).
The rest of the day's media includes tornados in Texas and Louisiana,
Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974) - Symphony No. 7 ("Sinfonia Romantica") (1942)
Howard Hanson (1896-1981) - Nymphs and Satyr (1979)
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) - Concierto de Aranjuez (1939),
Wim Statius Muller (1930-2019) - Antillean Dances, Op. 4 (1998): XII. Escondida, Waltz,
the death of Madeleine Albright (b. 1937),
a moving speech by Cory Booker (b. 1969) celebrating Ketanji Brown Jackson (b. 1970),
Ben Sasse (b. 1972) condemning the "jackassery" of his Republican colleagues re these last three grueling days of KBJ's Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, and another Zoom planning session for
The Opus Project presents Opus 94: Re-Entry (8pm, Saturday, April 23, Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA)