Cliff
begins
his
temporary
move-in, officially beginning on the 29th --
and we celebrate with another Vacaville Streets Walk:
White Sands southwest from Rushmore to Geyser,
then latter
to the Circle
and
back...
on the
54th day of summer,
high up 2 to
70... the birthday of
Paul II Anton (1711-1762, the initial Esterhazy hirer of F.J. Haydn, 1732-1809),
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804),
Germaine de Stael (1766-1817),
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944),
Eric Fenby (1906-1997), and Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999).
The response to all this is semi-updating the Works site re
Violin Concerto ("Ticklish"), Op. 87 (2000),
editing pages 7-8 of
Oboe Concerto ("Wanderer"), Op. 118 (2004), and
dreaming up
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
April 21-22
6am Marriage Sacrament of Mark and Harriet at DCC -- Combination Live / Zoom,
w/ Panoramic Photos...
7am In Ukrainian Wilderness (More Like Maine) with Long Distance Runner Delivering Mail
on a Circuitous Forest Path, Met, Just After Relief, Harriet and I Are Staying at Wilderness
Almost-Abandoned Inn, We Have a Bed Avialable on Floor, Have Made Love Several Times,
Deciding that Main[e] Abandoned Lobby w/ Fireplace Is Best (Other 2 Times in More of a
Forest Cabin Area)...
9am Mass Physical Get-Together, Continuing in an Asian Restaurant -- Before This Renting a Huge
Truck for George at Warehouse, Then Not Being Able to Take Take Up Exit Ramp,
Damaging Metal Plates in Back, Cliff Wants to Fix in a Certain Way, I Have Spcialists Decide
Another Method, Sorrel Pays, Claiming to Have Special Experience Dealing w/ Such Situations,
We Take Truck / Trailer Out, Negotiationg Around Narrow Blocks, Seemingly Pulling Into the
Same General Warehouse Area, Several Tight Left-Hand Turns Around Near High-Brick
Buildings, Left, and Steep Curve Drop-Offs to Street, Right, Park, Look Around Back of
Truck, and Trailer Is Gone... The Get-Together Is Intense, with Many People Pleasuring
Many People...
This is also the day... or is it?
I can't remember -- no,
I definitely can't remember if --
what is her name? Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes the first member of Congress to testify about January 6... Nope, I do not recall (I'm lying, and, of course, so is she, multiply... so what else is new?... still, nice to see her squirm a bit, rather than continuing to mouth off, although she still does some here -- and the prosecution is, how shall we say, less than totally effective in incriminating her w/r/t seditious overturn-the-election behavior which would disquality from ever running again -- wake up rural northwest Georgia!).
More media meanderings include a program on Extinct Countries (of the United States),
Alessandro Marcello (1673-1747) - Oboe Concerto in C Minor (1715): II. Adagio (who knew that there were 2 Baroque Marcellos -- the other is Benedetto, 1686-1739; and 2 versions of this piece: an original in D Minor),
Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827) - Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major ("Eroica"), Op. 55 (1804): III. Scherzo,
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D Minor (1847, eventually part of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, 1885 -- and, somewhat in the spritit of the Marcello, this one originally in C# Minor),
Jcques Offenbach (1819-1880) - Le Papillon (1860),
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) - Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major ("Romantic") (1874),
Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) - Suite Anciennne, Op. 31 (1911): I. Intrata (a challenging spelling: one "n" in first name, and last with "o..e" rather than "e...o" -- and, look what we have here!
An 1887 Leipzig Card Party of Nina Grieg (1845-1935), Hubby Edvard (1843-1907), Halvorsen, Frederick Delius (1862-1934), and Christian Sinding (1856-1941). Deal me in!? Or, I guess, not, since I'd be long dead by now... and, one woman outlives 3 of 4 men, and lives the most years of all...),
Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) - Symphony No. 4 in C Major (1933 -- evidently no relation to Florent Schmitt, 1870-1958),
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) - Rossiniana (1925): IV. Tarantella,
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) - Violin Concerto (1938),
Huel Howser (1945-2013) - California's Gold (1991) -
139. Laguna (2008),
Marie Yovanavich (b. 1958) with Margaret Hoover (b. 1977) on Firing Line (1966-1999 / 2018-present),
Kevin McCarthy (b. 1965) lying some more,
a new
Great Performances (1976)
Now Hear This documentary
[Aaron] Copland [1900-1990]:
Dean of American Music
(including a performance of
Fanfare for the Common Man, 1942), and news of 2 verbal tours-de-force:
Emmanuel Macron (b. 1977) besting neo-Ruskie Marine Le Pen (b. 1968) in the sole French-President debate (let's hope he comes out on top tomorrow!), and
Mallory McMorrow (b. 1986)
brilliantly defending traditional American democratic values.
Meanwhile, work work on the blogs blogs....