June 27 - In Passing
Update the Complete Works site re
History Phases, Op. 153 (2007)
particularly with links to YouTube videos,
edit page 4
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
I. Allegro
and consolidate hopefully-not-prescient text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
June 26-27
2am My Music Played for Its High Entertainment Value, Others, Not So Much...
Cliff Returns from Cuba, Describes How He Is as Not Feeling Great...
I Am On Bed Semi-Asleep, but Make Effort to Greet Him...
8am More Posters and Promotion...
Out for the
76th Vacaville Streets walk:
Prospect southeast /
northwest,
then around the bend northeast via Arcadia to
Quail.
Errands
afterward,
tooling
across
town...
I-80,
Cliff-
side,
Da-
vis --
this
being
the
116th
day
of
summer,
high up 3 to 105,
tying for the warmest of the year with May 25.
Newsworthy
hours,
including
broadcast of
The View (est. 1997) from
the Bahamas,
a reasonably stimulating playlist of
F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 93 in D Major ("Flatulence") (1791),
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5 (1881, written when the composer was 16!),
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Mother Goose (1910),
Percy Grainger (1882-1961) - Green Bushes (1906),
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) - Louisian Story Acadian Snngs and Dances (1948): IV. Allegator,
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) - Estonian Dances (1938), plus
two David Dortort (1916-2010) Westerns featuring Vasquez Rocks and other great American desert scenery --
Bonanza (1959):
VIII, 11. Oath (1966), and
The High Chaparral (1967):
II, 2. Ten Little Indians (1968).
Also on the docket, Rick Steves[b. 1955]' Europe (2000):
Season 11, Episode 3.
The French Alps and Lyon (2020),
Stephen Colbert and
Kamala Harris (both b. 1964),
Rachel Maddow (1973), and
the just-about-brand-new series
Planet California (2022):
Season I, Episode 1.
Rivers of Gold...