MARK ALBURGER, 2022: May 15

Well, it happened. And very successfully! The Davis Community Presbyterian Church Chancel and Chamber Choirs pull off their return-to-live-concertizing Spring Concert with aplomb, under the fine direction of Music Director Emma Turnbull, including

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

which peaks during dress rehearsal and performance!

All these pictures during the former, of course, including the

Children's Choir,

augmented eventually by Carmen, who rallies after an overnight illness.

So,

a fine

show,

with Chris,

Cliff, Harriet, Jack

and seemingly everyone enjoying everything....

The day also pretty much starts at the

kirche, with

vocal

warm-up and

the early service,

where Chris Erdman literally preaches to the Choir at times...

Following this,

homeward

for

brief break,

before

back at it,

rehearsing

selections

for the

show, including

Felice Anerio (1560-1614) - Christus Factus Est (c. 1590)

and

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) - Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618, written about 6 months before its composer's death...

Afterwards,

homebound

again,

on the

74th day of summer,

high again 93, tying with yesterday as the hottest so far this year --

Davis besting this by 2 at 95...

this being also the birthdays of

Sejong the Great (1397-1450, hopefully duly honored in

Sejong the Great, Op. 235 [2015]),

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643),

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919),

Pierre Curie (1859-1906),

Peter Shaffer (1926-2016),

Madeleine Albright (1937-2022), and

Brian Eno (b. 1948, seen here with David Bowie, 1947-2016, and Philip Glass, b. 1937, on the cover of the latter's Symphony No. 1 ["Low], 1992)...

Let this also go down as the day finishing

The Creation, Op. 93 (2000) new Addition

reasonably thoroughly updating the complete Works site re

Camino Real, Op. 110 (20030,

concluding the editing of

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

(55 pages total)

and dreaming up

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     May 14-15
          6am Celebration of Preservation of Abortion Rights, Translated Into Ukranian and East-Coast
              Urban American, via YouTube in Multiple Movies...

Meanwhile,

Ukraine;

horrific mass-murder in Buffalo, by a white supremicist avowing "Replacement Theory" that has been promoted by Republicans, including lawmakers and *ucker Carlson;