MARK ALBURGER, 2022: May 14

Cliff

and

vehicular

check

out

the

reasonably-local

real-estate

situation,

and

mostly

take

the

scenery,

and

have

great

time --

Fairfield to Vallejo:

the

latter,

mostly

in the Heights area,

northeast

and

southwest...

then

returning

via

American Canyon

Cordelia,

Pittman,

Suisun Valley,

Rockville,

Hilborn

against the

Foothills,

Lyon,

and

Lagoon Valley.

Later,

out

once

Fairfieldian

way to

Suisun City,

for a belated third-Mother's Day celebration with Harriet, courtesy of Megan,

Athenian

Grill,

with

views

extending to

Potrero Hills and

Mt. Diablo.

Following

this,

homeward

again --

this time mostly on

and

(after a brief detour)

on the 73rd day of summer,

high up 9 to 93 (this being the new high for the year and 4th temp + 90, with

Fairfield / Suisun City, 94 [very suspicious, particularly re the second]
Vallejo, 87 [quite likely]) --

this date also marking the founding of Jamestown (1607), and the birthdays of

Otto Klemperer (1885-1973),

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959),

Lou Harrison (1917-2003),

Richard Deacon (1922-1984),

Alvin Lucier (1931-2021), and

Kate Blanchet (b. 1969).

There's additionally work to be done in the interstices of all this, including producing a new edition of

The Creation, Op. 93 (2000)
VI. Let the Earth Bring Forth

creating an additional page on the

complete Works site for

Six Characters in Search of an Author, Op. 109 (2003, after Luigi Pirandello),

editing pages 51-52 re

Oboe Concerto ("Wanderer"), Op. 118 (2004), and doing the requisite dreamwork as to

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     May 13-14
          12pm Choir Members in the Backyard, Falling Backwards...
          6pm Nonetheless, Let the Real Wedding Begin!...
          7pm A Long Strand of Hair, Spanning the Computer...
          1am I'll Have to Check Every 15 Minutes...
          5am Too Many Pieces and Not Enough Time for a Chamber Orchestra Rehearsal in a Barn /
               Church / Pews, We Extend Beyond 11:30pm, Having a Great Time, But It's Time to Go,
               Will Definitely Do Mozart 40, Did Firebird Stravinsky Last Week, Concert Coming Up,
               Is Performing In a Robe in Sprawled-Out Fashion Gentrification? More Peasantification....
               Performers Sitting All Over, Not in Proper Sections for Orchestral Performance...
          6am But I'm Definitely an Old Person: For the Way You Turned the Corner
               (in Davis, at or Near Central Park) and the Way I Did, Are Markedly Diferent
               (Mine, of Course, Much Slower)... Modifying Noun "Way"...
          8am Laptop in Lab, But Where to Retrieve / Extact Data?, Various Larger Computers Scattered
               Around, I Leave Laptop Out of Sight at Times, Not a Good Idea,
               Colorful Scenery Before This... Hiking, Rocky Prospects... Television Studio...
          10am A Down Staircase That Turns Upward Again Inside the Community Medical Center...
               Sometimes You Can't Speak of the Situation...

Some of this against the daily media dose, today including

Leos Janacek (1854-1928) - Sinfonietta (1928),

Bohuslav Martinu (1860-1959) - Symphony No. 5 (1946),

Bob Kane (1915-1998) - Batman (1966) - Season 1, Episode 11 A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away (Music Nelson Riddle, 1921-1985; theme music Neil Hefti, 1922-2008),