MARK ALBURGER, 2022: March 8 - I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours

With Harriet having established a writing blog this year, https://harrietmarchpage2022.blogspot.com/, we have now established a new tradition of reading each other's blogs on at least a monthly basis, and I am particularly honored and touched by her entry of March 6, which concludes:

I know a man who never stops investigating

Discovering

The past and future

A man who writes music

A man who loves mountains

This man

flies to the mountaintops

With his camera

And captures

The universe

We walk together

Hand in hand

Most days

Weather permitting

https://harrietmarchpage2022.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-daily-breath-sunday-march-6-2022.html

Thank you, Harriet! Love your writing and love you!

So, why has it taken me until March 8 to read Harriet's February blog entries into beginning of March? A little behind in posting on this blog, one supposes, so better continue with current account, including the codification of

Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022) from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015)
For Orchestra

beginning with

Novel III. Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters a gang of robbers
(Madrigals, Book II [1962]: III. Cabalito Negro - Little Black Horse),

updating the Works site re

Westminster Tropes, Op. 42 (1991)... a very tropy day...

and going for more text vis a vis

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     March 7-8
          3am Erotic Gestures Just Touching and Connecting,
               Old Music Out-Building at Marin Academy Has Been Turned Into Sensual Disco,
               Wonder If I Need a Mask, No One Evidently Does...
          7am Opposite Day on the Ulatis Bike Path, with Ham Taco Cooking...
          8am Opposite Middle School Orchestra Set Up, Reasonable Success,
              Convicing Administrator to Have Group Get Double Rehearsal Time,
              But Then Acknowledging I'm Retired, Will Help Select New Person....
              Helping Out In Semi-Disfunctional Church Choir, But This Week,
              Instead Go Out for Walk on Tiburon Peninsula, Brief, a Bit Cold But Scenic,
              Back to Rendezvous w/ Harriet, But Do Not See Her,
              Predict She Is Meeting Me for Pancakes at Tip of Landmass, But She's Not There,
              So Go for a Longer Walk, Then Call as I'm in Middle of Intersection,
              Apologize, She Seems OK About It... New Camera....
          9am Opposite Periodic Table.... Harriet Looking Great, Crossing Street...
              "General Venderly" of Poland...
          10am Bryce Street, Close Encounters,
               Into a Basement Medical Office Resembling the Below-Ground Bookstore in State College,
               PA, with Harriet, Not Sure if It's the Right Place, Could be Dangerous...

The terrors of the Ukraine War provide for potential

and

bona-fide

heroism -- evoking the past but

defining a new

present.

Meanwhile,

tragedy

all around.

So,

at least we're

walking

(29th of the Vacaville Streets series),

today from Bryce at the junction of Leisure,

southeast to Yellowstone,

and,

from there,

southwest

to a

pickup at

East Carlsbad,

courtesy of

M'Lady's Shuttle Diplomacy...

There's

errands

ahead,

on the 20th day of summer,

high zooming up 7 to 78 -- the birthday of

C.P.E. Bach (1714-1788) --

here's The Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (1730): I. March -- all four pieces previously attributed to father and husband of the dedicatee J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm3aF8vzy-4

-- and

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) -- featuring the (highest of his 434 opus numbers that popped up in an initial Googling)

Symphony No. 45, Op. 342 (1954)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vS7wdYbPTw

The rest of the day's mixed media is

Gioachino Rossini (1891-1864) - La Gazza Ladra (1817): Overture (this is the legendary piece that the composer wrote under guard, tossing the completed sheets of music out the window...),