May 22 - Ready, Set
Early
service
again at
Davis Community Presbyterian Church,
Chancel Choir singing the Benediction,
with fine soloists (including Associate Pastor Eunbee Ham nicely harmonizing with her guitar-playing / singing husband, and a young preluding-postluding pianist),
all under the expert auspices of Music Director Emma Turnbull --
preceeded
by the
pilgrimage there and
post-postluded by chatting with
Bonobo Primatologist Linda Stone.
Following this,
continued out for a walk with Harriet in Central Park,
from the Church past the
Farmer's Market to
3rd,
thence west towards the
U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.
Skirting
B North,
cross-country
east,
roughly
at
4th --
beelining
back
to
DCC
in
time
for
the
end
of
the
second-service
recessional
music.
After a meeting in the colonnade courtyard with Deacon Liz,
we continue the al fresco (past tubists),
walking
south on
E,
bound for a burger
at the
Commons,
then
back
again
for
Jim Goss's informative class on comparisons between Gospels According to Mark and John.
Finally,
arrivederci
homeward
on the
81st day of summer,
high up 3 to 93 (locally and in Davis) --
the 209th birthday of Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
Time to create a new web page for the complete
Works site vis a vis
Symphony No. 9 ("From the West"), Op. 117 (2004),
as well as edit pages 13-14 of
Viola Concerto ("Felicitations"), Op. 119 (2004)
I. Allegro moderato
and page 4
Saint Paul Suite, Op. 145 (2007)
V. Lydia / In Prison,
and to say something about
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
May 21-22
1pm Today, in Phoenix (the Bird, Rather Than the City)...
3am Singing in Counterpoint w/ Emma, Harriet, and Juan -- Us Latter 2 on a Funky,
Interlocking Bassline...
5am Auto Insurance in the House Online, for the Car That's Driving in the House Online...
6am They've Bulldozed a Connection Between Avalon and North Lehigh Circle,
Through the Laub's and Boyle's Houses, and Everything Changes, Streets Widened /
Straightened, Trees Burned and Cut Down, Empty View of the Circle....
Visit to a Transformed Pomona College Music Department, New Heavyset
Instructor at Secretaries Desk Thinks I'm a Prospective Student, Rather Than More-Than-40-
Year Alum, Introduce Him to Emma, Who Will Do One of My Pieces at a Presbyterian Church
Up Slope Towards... Can't Remember Church Name or Address, Prepare for Concert in a
Pre-School Area w/ Little Chairs, Piano-Desk Needing to Be Moved, Also Card-Table,
With Multiple People, Mostly Women Assisting (But Not Me), Harriet in a Halter Top,
Down on Floor in Process, Somone Else Putting / Taking an Electrical Item Out of Wall That
Drips...
in an environment including
Family Zoom,
and multiple
PBS
nature documentaries.