MARK ALBURGER, 2022: May 8 - Local and Universal

Every time Davis Community Presbyterian Church projects "Silence" on the screen, can't help but think of John Cage (1912-1992) - 4'33" -- and, certainly, the absence of intentional sound is very much part of life's meditation -- here after reading two passages in the New Revised Standard Version:

a female-pronoun-troped Psalm 23 and

the Matthew's take on the same number, for the latter part of Verse 37.

Which provides motivation for producing cover and

front material for

Psalms, Book I, Op. 172 (2009) --

Psalm 23 appearing in due course, having initially been composed for

King David, Op. 69 (1998), but inspired more by the visual of

Saul! Saul!, Op. 68 (1998) -- i.e. David's soothing harping / singing for the semi-mad King Saul, as depicted in Julius Kronberg (1850-1921) - David and Saul (1885) -- and Arthur Honegger's Le Roi David (1921). As for Matthew 23: 37b, its appearance in

The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Op. 85 (2009):

XLVIII. Jerusalem (Lauda Jerusalem),

appears in abbreviated paraphrase.

Also update the complete Works site for

Flying Out the Mouth, Op. 103 (2001, Harrriet March Page),

edit pages 39-40

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

and come up with

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     May 7-8
          5am Driving Too Fast in a Van Down Coastal Highway at Night to Large Quaint In,
               Trying to Put on Break with Knee, Not Working, Will I Overshoot to Where?...
          2am A Mutt-and-Jeff Team of Italian Engineers, Redesigning Areas for Better Human Use
               (a Narrow Canyon-Like Venice-Style-Kinda-Canal, Needing a Walkway, to Restoring Natrual
               Areas Sullied by Human Intervention); Their Employer, a College President Type, Eventually,
               in Each Case, Won Over to the Benefits of Improvement, Third-Party Reporter / Observer of
              All Situations... Jaunty Italian Music at Times... First One a Venice-Style St. Mark's Piazza +
              Park, Instead of a Golf Course...

Reasonably early,

rendezvous with destiny at

DCC, warming up / rehearsing for the second service in the Music Room, since the first service is running late.

At last in the sanctuary for

Mother's Day (happy times, Mom!), for the

Children's Sermon,

4 moving messages for the hour,

Pierre-Louis Dietch (1808-1865) - Ave Maria (Hail Mary, 1842, newly composed bass line and text-setting, after Jacques Arcadelt [1507-1568] - Nous Vouyons Qul Les Hommes [We See that Men..., 1554] for 3-part women's voices, the text [by the composer?] translation roughly

We see that men, plainly enough, all think it
a feather in their cap if they make love.
It is foolish of us women
to speak ill of love:

what is seen as praiseworthy for them
is dishonourable for us
and an inexcusable fault;
morality is harsh.

Nature has more sense than they do:
it has given us a body
better designed than men’s for amorous practices,
yet to us they are more forbidden.),

and a nice

stewardship presentation.

The mid-day homeward is again via Russell, 113,

80,

Sparling, Pedrick,

Sievers

southwest

and

west,

Halley,

Sweeney,

Tuhhs,

Allendale,

505, and

Monte Vista -- on this return to night-quite-summer-again 59th day of spring: high down by 9 to 69 (ah-but-we-make-it at Davis, w/ 70 spot-on) -- the birthday of our heroes

Luis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) and

David Attenborough (b. 1926... the latter on-goingly homaged in

That's How It Is On This Bitch of an Earth, Op. 254 (2016)
[Title: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) - Waiting for Godot (1953)
Source Material: David Attenborough (b. 1926) - Color Original-Broadcast Filmography (1963-2016)].