Surprised to find more online re
Aerial Requiem, Op. 27 (1985), which has been placed on MusOpen,
Scorser,
Classical Music Archive -- the latter featuring a picture I haven't seen or have forgotten (staring at my hand?), and
list of first 40 compositions (interesting to put the number of Merton Songs -- 15 -- in the title...), sortable alphabetically or by
opus number (pretty common, but first I've seen re own works)...
Also begin to update
The Ten Commandments, Op. 58 (1997) on
http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/
bring new text to the fore for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
March 23-24
6am Stanford Staccato Women... A Tootin' for the Guten...
7am Two Alternative Timelines for a Television Show, One Not As Highly Regarded,
But w/ a Voluptuous Lead...
produce the Bb Clarinet / Bass Clarinet 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 create first movement of a new piece:
Mozart [W.A.] Orchestrations, Op. 396 (March 24, 2022)
Minuet, K. 94
With Joe Biden and the other NATO leaders in
Bressels, Belgium, for a summit on the Ukraine Invasion, and the
California weather continued wonderful (83 again,
the 33rd of summer),
'tis a beautiful opportunity to Zoom outside again with
Springfield High School folks,
working, somewhat soberly (despite vino in hand), on beginning to revise the passed-on classmates bio page,
before brilliantly / accidently ending the meeting for all, when the intention was to pass on the host duties, since folks desired to linger.
Harriet and I are,
however,
bound
for
Davis Community Church Chancel and
Chamber Choirs, where the bill of fare includes
Gregorio Allegri (1585-1652) -
Misere (Psalm 50 [Greek], 52 [Hebrew, Protestant], c. 1638).
And, speaking of renowned folk, musical and otherwise, today is also the anniversary of
Richard the Lionheart being
mortally wounded in battle (1157-1199 -- his
Ja Nuns Hons Pris [c. 1193]
held doubly captive in
History Phases, Op. 153 [2007]: X. Richard Coeur de Lion - Ja Nuns Hons Pris)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xCIlk_cj8
the coronation (1603) of
James I (1566-1625, of Biblical translation fame), and
the gifting of the J.S. Bach (1685-1750) -
Brandenburg Concerti (1721) to the
namesake giftee (Christian Ludwig, Markgraf von Brandenburg, 1677-1734, pictured here in 1710) --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPM8DEsvmc
as well as the birthday of John Wesley Powell (1834-1902, seen in 1873 with Tau Gu, c. 1840-1880,
four years after his first perilous descent of the Colorado through the Grand Canyon...
A bit more listening throughout the day: to wit,
G.F. Handel (1685-1759) - Keyboard Suite No. 5 in E Major (1720): IV. Air and 5 Variaitions ("The Harmonious Blacksmith") (hmm, might have to do something with this, sometime in the future...
and almost simultanous performances of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) -
Symphony No. 3 in D Major (1815) and
Symphony No. 4 in C Minor ("Tragic") (1816). plus a couple of truly random bits:
recalling an old Fred Allen (1894-1956, c. 1940 above) album with
Senator Claghorn, portrayed by Kenny Delmar (1910-1984); plus noting that
Mo Brooks (b. 19540) is third in the Alabama GOP Primary at present... although this traitor will still appear in a collision of his own statements as part of
January 6, 2021, Op. 381 (2022)
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