May 12 - Be Prepared


3rd and final Thursday rehearsal, first featuring all 8 singers, of

Aerial Requiem, Op. 27 (1985)
     X. Angus Dei

with the Davis Community Church Chamber Choir, conducted by Emma Turnbull,

and we hope for a nice performance as part of the Spring Concert, 2022 (4pm, Sunday, May 15, DCC, Davis, CA), on a program featuring a number of other works performed by this group

as well as the full

Chancel Choir.


Before this do much of the day's labors, including producing new edition of

The Creation, op. 93 (2000)
     IV. Let There Be Lights,



updating the Works site re


Out on the Porch, Op. 107 (2002, Harriet March Page) and




recent work from Opus 387-398,

editing pages 47-48 of

Oboe Concerto ("Wanderer"), Op. 118 (2004),

and devising the dreamwork necessary for

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     May 11-12
          12pm A Multi-Cultural Woman Overcomes a Great Tragedy -- Crying, Trembling... Thank You!...
          3pm Picking Up Plates and Cups from Drain Board and Almost Immediately Dropping Them /
               Smashing on Others...
          1am A Handful of Pretzels Caught on the Bag and Then Spilling on the Floor...


on the 71st day of


summer,


high up 2 to 76


(77 in Davis) --


the 177th birthday of


Gabriel Faure (1845-1924, depicted here in 1889 by John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925) --


these hours also marked by another


Springfield High School Zoom and


the January 6 Committe subpoenaing 5 Members of Congress!