Compose page 1-2 of
Quadruple Concerto No. 2 ("Haydn Seek"), Op. 390 (2022)
For Mandolin, Harp, Vibraphone, and Marimba
I. Allegro
Begin update of
Big Beat, Op. 39 (1990)
on the Works site, and there's even more text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
March 4-5
3am Trying to Play a Timpani Part on Piano Before a Demanding Female Conductor and
I Can Do No Right
(Keyboard Is an Antique Box w/ View Out Window to an Old European City),
I Have Notation Written on Small Pieces of ATM Bank Statement Paper,
Score Which I've Xeroxed Into a Notebook Has a Plethora of Black and White
Suggestive Illustrations, One Graffiteed, Conductor Accuses Me of Machinations,
I Insist That I Copied the Score as It Was w/ Pictures, and That
It Is Important to Get Context of Music, and I Have No Idea Who Ammeded One Image,
She Sprawls on Bed Just Behind / Farther Into the Room from Keyboard,
I Move Beyond Her on One Side Gingerly,
She Has Turned Into a Younger Brunette and Acts Flirtatious,
Reaching Behind Her Supine Head to Me Sitting in Chair,
Studying Music / Book and Attempts to Take My Hand....
7am Talking White Lion in Hotel Zoo Escapes,
It Can Sense Fear in People and Act Accordingly, First Registering It in Me,
Lion and Accomplice Break Back Into Room Via Flimsy Wood / Glass Doors that
I'm Attempting to Keep Shut... Before That, It's Rather Docile,
As We're Watching It on a Veranda for Some Reason...
After, an Incident w/ Accomplices as Lion Actually Comes Semi to Our Rescue,
Scaring Them Away as It Darts Down Berkeley Street,
Just North of Campus, the Main Thoroughfare Where the Relocated Celia's Ended Up,
[Euclid Avenue -- what's the deal with streets so Geometrically Greekily named in CA?]
After This a Broadway-Style Revue Number for All Participants...
Right Now I Chase Along a Rather Fragile, Ouside, Excluded Line / Declivity
w/ a Butter Knife... Also Berkeley,
But Now That East-West Road Parallel to North of Campus [Hearst]...
Again, the Echo of the Sea / Washing Machine... Before All This,
Finding 4 Lost Children at a Giant One-Buildinged Residential Prep School (Westtown) and
Trying to Get Them Rendezvou'ed w/ Parents, They Are All Very Small,
and One of Them Is One of the Poster Children from a
Charitable Disabled Chidren's Organization, Talking --
We Don't Seem to All Know What to Do, But One Does... Dynasty,
Pronouced "Dinesty" Written in a Soft Gellatinous, Chalky Material... A Real Indictment...
I'm on a Spotify Playlist with Louisiana.... Quadruple Concerto No. 2,
with a Characteristic Rhythm... Here It Comes...
9am Sheets of Rain...
Harriet Reads the Beginning of a Text from One of Her Children on One Screen,
Then Switches to Next....
Meanwhile the nightmares of Putn's evil, unjustified
war on Ukraine, contrasted with the (at least for now)
joys of California...
Harriet and I are out for our
not-quite-daily
Vacaville Streets Walk,
strolling on East Carlsbad,
from Central Trees
'round the
bend
southwest
to Greenspace,
Bike Path,
and
Little Library.
Further
explorations of
the roundabout
way ahead,
on the 45th day of spring,
high back down 7 to 60, the birthdays / aniversaries of
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594 -- he of controversial map distortion, depicted above by at least the school of
Titian, 1488-1576, here in a self-portrait, 1567), the
Boston Massacre (1770 -- itself also controversial, in the year of Beethoven's birth!...it was cold and snowy that day, like Ukraine, marginally...),
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959 -- among those composers who I would have liked to have met, but who passed away in the several years on either side of my birth: here with his habitual cigar, how about a little
Valsa Concerto No. 2, Op. 8 (1904)?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiRr4MifU9I
and
the sad passing of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953, pictured left, with Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906-1975, and Aram Khachaturian, 1903-1978) on the same day as Stalin (b. 1878 -- no picture, but, rather, Prokofiev's fragmentary last opus...
Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 137 (1953)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOkCGqEDbNY
The rest of the day's listening includes
A double whammy of J.S. Bach (1885-1750) - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 (1721), and
Orchestral Suite No. 4 (1725): I. Ouverture,
continuing on a high horse in quest of opus numbers re F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) symphonies, including
Symphony No. 26 in D Minor ("Lamentatione") (1768 -- OK. this one just happened to be on MC)
Symphony No. 73 in D Major ("La Chase"), Op. 34 (1782),
Symphony No. 80 in D Minor, Op. 39 (1784),
Symphony No. 86 in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2 (1786 -- so, what is 1?...),
Symphony No. 88 in G Major, Op. 56, No. 2 (1787 -- same question!...), and
Symphony No. 90 in C Major, Op. 66 (1788 -- and whoa! There's Jean-Honore Fragonare, 1732-1806 [a direct contemporary of FJH, living only 3 years shorter] The Swing, 1787... quite a racy picture for its era, and, indeed, others: more on this later...), plus
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - Symphony No. 4 in A Major ("Italian"), Op. 90 (1833),
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (1877): III. Allegro,
Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) - Hashish Oriental Symphonic Poem, Op. 53 (1914 -- what's not to like!?),
Frederick Delius (1862-1934) - Irmelin (1890): Prelude (1930),
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Concert Waltz in D Major for Orchestra, Op. 47 (1893)
Granville Bantock (1868-1946) - The Witch of Atlas (1902),
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - Piano Concerto in C Minor, Op. 18 (1901),
Kurt Weill (1900-1950) - The Threepenny Opera (1928): Act 2 - XIII. Tango Ballad,
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) - Estonian Dance Suite (1938),
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Piano Concerto, Op. 13 (1938 -- nice serendipity of last 2 dates, and pretty close dates just before these...), and,
Mariano Mores (1918 - 2016 -- 98! Not bad!) - Taquito Militar (1952).
The Fragonard Swing or
The Happy Accidents of the Swing
leads to other fortuitous links
from its intriguing artist,
particularly w/r/t
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963),
an affair with the Baroness
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), and wonderful poetry, including
This Is Just to Say (1934 - incredibly memorialized on a wall in The Hague, and
its response, by Williams's wife Flossie, 1890-1976),
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (1955) with its wonderful excerpt
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
and
Jersey Lyric (1960).