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Viola Concerto ("Felicitations"), Op. 119 (2004)
I. Allegro moderato,
and page 2
Unnatural Acts, Op. 359 (2021)
IV. The Vision
+ create
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
May 16-17
6am Old BW Photo of a Relative Grandmom Wearing a Mask, During a Pandemic...
8am Evaluating Coastal Drop / Rise Worldwise at DVC, Also Substituting There, in Conference
w/ Bret Peppo, and New Department Chair, Who Requires "Yes" People, Low Choir Numbers,
I Think I Have Strategy for Turnaround, Consider Coming Out of Retirment
[Such Is Not Possible at Present], Sitting in Chairs, the Three of Us in an Office,
Facing the Same Direction; Some Other Time, w/ Christian Amanpour at Iranian Beach,
Low Tide w/ a Smack of Waves Coming Far Up Beach and We Run for It, Getting Wet...
Peppo Wants to Rename Chorus, "We're Singing" to Clarify What People Do in Class...
9am A Line of Cars Down a Straight But Rising Falling 2-Lane Country Road,
One Careening Around Wildly to Pass.... I've Alienated Several in a Concert Choir,
Ask Eliza / Diana What I've Done, at First She Ignores, While Moving Back Into an Upper
Choir Pew, Then Lashes Out About My Substitute Interpretation of a Solo, as Being Too
Theatrical, Other Is Chorus Director, Resembling a Squad Marin Alsap,
Up a Row, To Left, She Stares Resolutely Ahead, Also Resembles a Recently Disgruntled
Neighbor, I Ponder, Ponder Temperaments of Musicans vs Actors,
the Second Group Tending to Be Even More Expressive, at Times Problematic...
Choral Concert on a Big Football-Stadium Size Field, with a Giant Silver Bust /
Head Male-Visage Idol in the End Zone -- Multiple Concert at the Same Time Each Year,
with Video Overlaps / Overlays of Previous...
After much of this,
out for the 65th Vacaville Streets Walk,
from the junction of Yellowstone,
northwest on Nut Tree
to Arcadia,
southwest
towards
Alameda
Bike
Path
to a view of the Vaca Mountains,
then back near
point of origin --
on the
76th day of summer, high up 6 to
92 --
the 156th birthday of
Erik Satie (1866-1925, here in the 1892 portrait by artist / model for Renoir and Degas / girlfriend-who-lived-next-door-in-the-same-hotel-for-6-months Suzanne Valadon, 1865-1938).
A good time for
Claud Debussy (1862-1918) - La Mer (1905): I. De l'Aube a Midi sur la Mer,
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) - Piano Partita (1957): II. Notturno,
Hector Gratton (1900-1970) - Quatrieme Danse Canadienne (1935),
Stephen Colbert interviewing Mark Esper (both b. 1964) re the Evil Idiot's time in the White House,
the downfall of the Madison Cawthorn (b. 1995) bid for re-election (would that more of the disreputable fools be out of the running), and counting down the days before the
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's
Bring 'Em Back Alive Concert (8pm, Saturday, May 28, Lakeside Presbyterian Church, SF)...