15 years of blogging, first time ever posting a picture of food...
But it's the Admiral's Feast at Red Lobster,
so guess we'll make this exception,
Harriet and I dining due to the largess of Rhonda and her husband,
quite some time now after our January 10 Zoom Marriage....
Also a pleasure
driving there
and
back --
on the
57th day of summer,
high down 1 to 83 (80 in Fairfield)...
the 1223rd anniversary of
Leo III (750-816) fleeing (799) to Charlemagne (747-814),
which ultimately resulted the next Christmas in the former crowning the latter Emperor...
Best I can do on this day is reaching even farther back in history, subject-wise, to update on the Works site just as much as can be done at present re
Diocletian, Op. 90 (2000),
Edit pages 13-14 of
Oboe Concerto ("Wanderer"), Op. 118 (December 7, 2004),
and come up with another round for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
April 24-25
4pm Facial Prosthetic Devices Resembling Animals; Beethoven Scherzo Sped Up to Calliope
Pinball Music...
11pm State Dinner for New Church Members; A Stick-Figure Megan Cullen Holding Forth on
Opus Possibilities...
2am Bette Holding Forth on Certain Radical Videos in a Communal Housing Arrangement:
It's an Evolving Situation...
5am New Alternate Religion for Alternate Times...
7am Love-Making of Questionable Means and Ends...
8am Trying to Teach Minor Scales to Students Who Are Getting It, But Intervening Teachers Are
Getting In Way and GettingAngry About Students During Aspects of Minor That Properly
Differ From Major; Forgetting to Introduce 1/2 Steps Until Too Late; White (Actually Slate
Brown) Board w/ Markings That Are Way Too Small to See From Distance...
9am Tisha and Claire Greet Harriet and I, All of us Looking Good, as We Enter Theatre Through
a Broken Glass Window...
In counterpoint to
reports that Russia may be trying to spread its horrors against Ukraine into
Moldova;
continuing
mounting
evidence
against the Criminal Evil Fascist Lying Neo-Nazi Psychopath and his ambitious anti-democracy blind idiot weasels; and, at least for now,
France saved from a Russian collaborator (would that the U.S. would have would have and will be so spared again) -- plus
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Nameday Overture, Op. 115 (1815),
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) - Columbia ("Caprice Americain") (1859),
August Enna (1859-1939) - Fairy Tale (1889 -- hmm, an awful lot of 9's for these past 2...),
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 (1915),
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) - Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 11 (1898),
Marucie Ravel (1875-1937) - Sonatine (1905),
R. Nathanial Dett (1882-1943) - In the Bottoms (1913): IV. Barcarolle - Morning
y dos piezas de
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) - específicamente
Concierto Serenata for Harp and Orchestra (1952)
and
Soleriana (1953)...