May 7 - Peaceable Kindom


First week of Cliff being here, and it's been great -- but he is heading up to Carolyn's for Mother's Day,

so Harriet and I


set off for the 61st Vacaville Streets Walk: Aspen northwest to its


palmy Circle,


then southwest on


Ponderosa to


Yew.


You might think that this is an easy route,


and it is,


but our only relatively-smooth mobility these days is


vehicularly tooling about -- in this case, errands around town, including proceeding on Hume...


which calls to mind that it is the birthday of David Hume (1711-1778), as well as


Robert Browning (1812-1889, seen here with fellowette poet and spouse Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- he who inspired


The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Op. 116 [2004]),


Johannes Brahms (1833-1897),


Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893),


Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941),


Gary Cooper (1901-1961 -- not hard to tell, despite the two black hats, who's the good guy, right? -- in Man of the West, 1959, with Julie London, 1926-2000, and Arthur O'Connell, 1908-1981),


Eva (a.k.a. Evita) Peron (1919-1952, not crying with husband Juan, 1895-1974), and


Anne Baxter (1923-1985, here as Nefertari in The Ten Commandemnts, 1956 -- OK, which may have been just a little in mind while writing


Moses and Aaron, Op. 63 [1998] and



The Ten Commandments, Op. 58 [1997]) -- additionally the double-catastrophic-and-a-commemorative anniversaries re


the collapse of the Hagia Sophia Dome (558, it got better... by an almost-immediate beginning of re-construction),


the commencement of celebrations vis a vis the completion of Versailles (1664), and


the sinking of the Lusitania (1915).


OK, where were we?  Right.


Groceries


and


gadding


and


galavanting


to


gas,


on the


69th day of summer,


high down 1 to 78.



A fine time to semi-update the complete Works site re


Symphony No. 8 ("Unending"), Op. 102,

edit pages 37-38 of

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

and go for more

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)

with

     May 6-7
          1am Woman with Large Science Fiction Teeth... African Ghost Masks...
          2m New Corny Musical About a City Girl Making Good in the Country...
               A Dead Bird on Road Is a Portent, She Loves the Crooked Housing Quirks Along a
               Straight Street, Backing Effeminate Chorus, Evil Guy Developer w/ Full Beard in Love
               w/ Her...
          6am Induction Ritual with Distortion of Mozart Ave Maria, w/ Ending Bassline F-G-A,
                Lower Bb Back Up to C
          8am In Final Competitive Concert of the Year at Pennsylvania Academy of Music,
                We Are Grand Finale w/ a Group Performance of Psalm 6, Oboe Has Been Misplaced,
                 So Do a Vocal Vocalise Version, With Many Performers Imitating or Doing Own Versions of
                 My Improvs, Many Children Involved, Often Processional, Some People Performing from
                 Seats, Comic and Anguished, Leading Some Peformers Into Offstage Areas,
                 Particularly Above, Performing Portions From a High Box in Auditorium, w/ Back Flips,
                 a Competitive Judging Thereafter, Many Other Works Quite Polished, We Win Some Sort of
                 Honorable Mention, Afterwards, This Is Finale of Semester, and Our Apartment, Small
                 (Any Windows?) Is Cleared Out, Wonder How This Happened, a Few of My
                 Father's Conservative Relatives w/ Children Are With Us, Refrigerator
                 Has Blue Graffiti Over It, Children's Eyes Are Averted, I Assure Folks We Had Art Works
                 Covering Surface, So We Have Never Noticed Script, Giant Walk-In Closet,
                 New Folks Have Already Rustically Moved In, But We All Have Some Articles to Retrieve
                 in Back, Beyond New Layers of Clothing, Sorrel and I Stand About, Scandinavian New
                 Occupents, I'm Eating a Fair Amount of Fast Foot French Fries in a Bag and Offer
                 Some to Sorrel, Which She Takes, Smiling... With New Foks Squeezing Past Us in Tiny
                 Kitchen and Living Areas.... Our Performance Previously Ends w/ All of Us Leaving Theatre
                 Towards Lobby in Back in Whispers...
          9am Emma Triying to Finsih a Phone Call, and She Does So, in Our House... Before, You Are
                 More Carefree, Turning Right From Cliffside onto Elmira... Harriet Attmpts to Activate a
                 Video from a Hand-Held Keyboard..  Rehearsal in a Second-Story Situation, with View Out
                  to Courtyard, and Interior Upper-Lobby Amphitheatre...


More wonders include

Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935) - Mascarade Suite (1922): VII. Arietta,


Enrique Granados (1867-1916) - 12 Danzas Espanolas, Op. 5 (1890): V. Asturiana,


Don Gillis (1912-1978) - Symphony No. 5 1/2 (1956),


a documentary on


Norman Mineta (1931-2022 -- who just passed away this past May 3),


Congressional testimony on Labor Relations / Unions (from, among others Sean O'Brien, b. 1972, and


Chris Smalls, b. 1988), and an episode (Season 3: 10 "Teach Me, Dear Creature" -- apparently all the titles are Shakespearan quotes) of

Shakespeare and

Hathaway (2018 -- Hathaway having been Shakespeare's wife's maiden name).

Meanwhile, for both of us, it's also blog, blog, blog -- catching up...