May 16 - Milk of Universal Kindness


Having already produced a new edition of Movement 1

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


finish same for the rest, beginning with

II.  Now at Jesus's Birth in Bethlehem,

of the 9 movements, including some new beaming to better delineate rhythmic structure.


Also do a reasonably complete update of

The Playboy of the Western World, Op. 111 (2003)

on the Works site (though, ironically, the first page still could use some added attention),


begin editing (first 2 pages for now)

Viola Concerto ("Felicitations"), Op. 119 (2004)
     I. Allegro moderato



[Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-) - Peter's Vision at Joppa (1860)]

as well as beginning same re


Unnatural Acts, Op. 359 (2021)
     II. A Vision

and the seemingly-inevitable dreamworks of

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022
     May 15-16
          1am Suisun City Waterfront w/ Aspects of Arizona and Mexico
          7am Overcharged and Doubly-Listed for a Meal / Concert -- First One Is Over --
               at Seemingly Combined Restaurant from Above... Concert Listed Wrong (Over) Online,
               Will Have to Do Something About This and Call / Go Online...
               What an Inconvenient Situaton!
          9am Contrary List of Food and Calories on a 2-Door 2-Refrigerator Contraption;
                Someone in a Fat Suit...    
          11am Parking Car Along Left-Hand Curb, with Traffic Cones to Right, Suddenly Construction /
                Emergency Vehicle Parking in Front, Blocking Any Potential Forward Motion...


After various household


divertissements with Harriet


(including checking out the new Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, b. 1974), Cliff and I head out for the


64th Vacaville Streets Walk, parking on Nut Tree, just south of Yellowstone,


walking northeast and northwest to


West Rainier, then


reversing course southwest to the


Circle


and


returning,


followed by


solo errands,


on the


beautiful


75th day of


summer,


high down 7 to


86 --


this 24-hour interval also marking the fateful 1532 resignation of


Thomas More (1478-1535),


the 1769 marriage of 14-year old Marie Antoninette (1755-1793) to age 15 Louis-Auguste, a.k.a. Louis XVI (1754 to what-a-surprise-same-year-death-date), as well as the birthdays of


William Seward (1801-1872) and


Henry Fonda (190-1982, seen here with Jane, b. 1937, and Peter, 1940-2009)...