MARK ALBURGER, 2022: April 5 - There's Always Something

Begin the update of

Solomon, Op. 70 (1998)

on the Works site,

produce complete parts for

Scarlatti Orchestrations, Op. 347 (2021)
II. Sonata in F, K. 94

and that for Bassoon / Trombone / Tuba re

Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022), from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015)
       Novel VIII. Nastagio degli Onesti, loving a damsel of the Traversari family,
                 by lavish expenditure gains not her love
                 (Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death [1968]: III. Cancion de Jinete - Song of the Rider)

and do the dream-by-dream account of

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     April 4-5
          1am Spy Vs Spy in Adjacent Cars, But the Guns are Only Gag, Extending with Pow Flag/Signs
               at Ends...
          3am Wild Discussion Betweeen 2 Energetic Philosopher Mystics (I'm One), We Hit It Off,
               Despite Fact That I Was Originally Distant Relative Persona Non-Grata,
               Having Invited Myself Over, We Hold Forth Over Chocolates, But, at One Point,
               I Think He's Eaten Mine... I Characterize Myself Before Other Relatives Prior to Meeting as
              "This Guy That Can Be a Pain, Though Nice"... It's Potentially Some Sort of Royal Thing...
          9am John Bilotta - Bicinium...

As the Chinese seem to be supporting Russia in some ways,

the latter's terrorism continues in Ukraine, even as a withdrawel from the Kviv region seems underway....

Meanwhile we a half a world away can focus on matters musical, mapical (coinage for alliteration's alarming cause),

and

meteorological --

on the 42nd day of summer,

high down 1 to 78.

Nice day (as most of them are)

to enjoy the house,

but also great for Harriet and I to get out for the

42nd (hey! as in the number of summer days!) Vacaville Streets Walk,

currently parking at the junction of Leisure and Town Center,

walking southwest on the latter

until it narrows to

Cogir Driveway throughway (but -- hey! -- we're walking streets, not driveways...).

Reversing course,

take a

right northeast on

t'other

Mid Redwood and the

Shops,

then

sunward

southwestward

return.

Yet

still

a few more automobilic miles

in hunter-gatherer

responsibilities,

on this

the fecund birth date of

Elihu Yale (1649-1731),

Lean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806 -- Self-Portrait with Smiling Face, 1780),

harp-and-piano-maker Sebastien Erard (1752-1831),

Beethoven-associate / composer / conductor / violinist Louis Spohr (1784-1859 -- clearly also visual -artist, in this undated self-portrait),

Spencer Tracy (1900-1967, above in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1963, somewhere on the Southern California Coast, perhaps as implied in Santa Monica),

Argentinian composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000),

Gregory Peck (1916-2003, here from Moby Dick, 1956 -- after the Herman Melville, 1819-1891 novel, 1851, and

How the West Was Won, 1962), and

1Colin Powell (937-2021 -- too bad about that "weapons of mass destruction" bit).

Work,

work --

attuned to

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Violin Sontata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12, No. 1 (1798),

the 3rd and 4th final hours of the

of the

Ken Burns (b. 1953) documentary

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790

-- as the Firesign Theatre had it "the only President of the United States who was never President of the United States"),

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Cockaigne (In London Town) Overture, Op. 40 (1901),

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) - Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 34 (1904 -- one of the largest of the genre ever composed, and featuring a Beethovenian closing male chorus),