Good Friday at
Davis Community Presbyterian Church,
featuring a
Stations of the Cross experience --
dating back at least to the time of
William Wey (c. 1407-1478), and
now recently modified (1991) to a more
scriptural orientation by
John Paul II (1920-2005), as an alternative to the older tradition.
With some participants (including Juan and daughter Carmen)
ensconced in the balcony,
the service is a lovely one,
graced by great contributions from Organist Joanne Chambers, Music Director Emma Turnbull, and the Chancel / Chamber Choirs, including
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) - Miserere (1652, keyboard part for rehearsal only)
and
William Eeazar Barton (1861-1930, editor, first printing of) - Were You There (1899)
with Larry as fine soloist on verse 1, plus moving liturgy from
Chris Erdman, Eunbee Ham, Michael Coleman, JoAnn Diel, Harriet March Page, and Mark Alburger.
48th day of summer,
high way up 11 to 71,
now marked by
the sinking of a Russian Flagship by Ukraine, as well as historically that of
the Titanic (1912 -- memorialized poignantly in Charles Ives [1874-1954] -
Symphony No. 4 (1916): IV. Finale: Very slowly – Largo maestoso)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFiwmIi9Gw
plus
the death of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, the day after the John Wilkes Booth, 1838-1865, shooting).
This is also the birthday of
Leonardo da Vinci (1462-1519),
Guru Nanak (1469-1639),
Henry James (1843-1916, in a 1913 portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, and whose
The Turn of the Screw, 1898, was engagingly transformed into the 1954 opera by Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ7_tdK5GiM
Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975, Self-Portrait with Rita, 1925),
Bessie Smith (1894-1937),
Michael Ansara (1922-2013),
Elizabeth Montgomery - (1933-1995), and
Robert Walker (1940-2019).
Further contribution for the day here is updating
John and Salome, Op. 80 (1999)
on the Works site,
producing parts for C Trumpet / Ukulele [!] and F Horn re
Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022), from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015)
and going on with
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
April 14-15
6am Looks Like Family Picture from DCC, But Actually Record of Russian Genocide...
7am Walking to Westtown Airport (No Such Thing), Initially Imprisioned in Asylum,
But Escape w/ Help of Inmate, Who Leads Down Stairs Into Deep Castle Trench Between High
Walls Where There Is a Bolted Exit Door But Easy to Leave if Tall
(Inmate, a Gardener, Who Originally Threatened Violence, Isn't), Unbolt, Proceed Across Road,
Waiting for Multiple Lanes of Traffic to Pass, Cross, Fearful That I Will Be Apprehended,
But Make It, Then Continue Calmly, Realize that My Plane Was for 10Am and It's Afternoon
By Now, So We'll See, Either Cancel, Or Stay w/ Parents as Surpise iN This Pandemic
Weekend... Before, Past Lakes... Gardener Threatens Along a Double Wall,
Which Then Proves Escapable, As He Demonstrates, Ascending / Descending...
8am Tribunal, Dressed as Broccoli Sprouts...
to the tuneful-and-sometimes-not-so counterpoint of
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) - Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major ("Romantic") (1874),
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1963) - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 39 (1972), and
Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) - Star Trek (1966): Season 2, Production 43 - Bread and Circuses (1968)...