April 7 - Hot Times


Edit the orchestration of

The Bald Soprano, Op. 94 (2001)
     XVIII. The Fire

and produce suffient parts for

The Opus Project presents Opus 94 (8pm, Saturday, April 23, Center for New Music, San Francisco).


Also partially update the Works Site for


The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998),

produce the Guitar part for


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 transcribe new text re

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     April 6-7
         3am Marek in Cabin Motel in Oregon, "Do You Need a Ride Down" -- Yes --
              "I Can Cear Out Space for You.  It's What I Would Do for Some of My Opus People,
               Including Hussein, Who Is Kind of a Right-Hand Man"..  There Is, Perhaps,
               Something In the Window....
          9am Nagging Nattering Nympho Nymph...


44th day of summer,


high down a tick to 89,


making this the new 2nd-warmest of the year, with Davis at 90 -- and



after the weekly Springfield High School Zoom meeting,


time to


head off


there,


specifically to the


Community Presbyterian Church,


for


Chancel


(focussing on the Gregario Allegri, 1582-1652,


Miserere,
1638 --


to be sung in the balcony on Maundy Thursday) and


Chamber Choir practice, in preparation for


Passion Week.



On this impassioned 116th anniversary of Mt. Vesuvius destroying Naples (rather than the older destruction of Pompei above), other earthshaking events include


Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1745) - String Concerto in G Major, RV 145 (1708),


F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - String Quartet No. 75 in G Major, Op. 76 (1797),


Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) - 24 Piano Preludes (1839): IV. E Minor,


Joachim Raff (1822-1882) - Symphony No. 4 in G Minor (1871),


Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (1858),


Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) - Symphony in A Major (1850, pre-dating his Symphony No. 1 in Eb Major, Op. 2... 1853),


Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1897) - Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb Major, Op. 23 (1875),


Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 15 (1879): II. Scherzo (hmm, not a single 20th / 21st Century work...),



a nice interview with Ian McKellen (b. 1939),


more awfulness and lies from the Former Occupant, but truth from his neice, and, at last,


the Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson!