Pick up Cliff from Sacramento Airport after his mostly-happy (but airline-challenged and see-below) trip to Cuba, but he's picked up one unexpected, unwelcome traveller -- Coronavirus! --
so we have to return via I-5 west,
113
south,
and
80
southwest,
in visual splendor,
masked --
on
the
118th
day of summer,
high down 12 to 90 (locally and in
Dixon --
the 8-day 100+ wave,
which
lasted the length of Cliff's Carribean adventur,
finally broken...
Davis & Woodland, 92 /
Sacramento, 91).
Time to quarantine down, while updating
Flying Mixes, Op. 155 (2008),
on the Complete Works site,
edit page 6
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
I. Allegro
and dream up text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
June 28-29
12pm Kidwell Road Interchange, Backed by Vaca Mountains, Berryessa Gap, Rocky Ridge
9am Country, Art-Retreat, New Mexican / Southern California Style Accomodations,
I Am on Second Floor, Time to Go, Several Composers w/ Me, Downstairs,
I Am Only One w/o Luggage, Gigi as Groupie Meets Us w/ Several Others,
Not Sure We'll All Fit in One Car w/ Luggage, a Seond Car Is Due,
I Go Back Upstairs to Retrieve Suitcase, Open Floor Plan w/ Balconies, Tiled Roofs, Floors,
Harriet Calling From Below, "Mark! Mark!"...
The background to this -- safe-distancing, with Cliff on the sun porch, only coming into the house masked (soley for essentials and at a distance) -- is a blitz of world weather,
California
documentaries,
Max Bruch (1838-1920) - Symphony No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 36 (1870),
Frederick Delius (1862-1934) - Air and Dance (1915),
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) -
Ein Heldenleben,
Op. 40 (1898),
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Tombeau de Couperin (1917): IV. Forlane,
Howard Hanson (1896-1981) - Nymphs and Satyr Ballet Suite (1979),
a triple-Zoom evening of
Springfield (Delaware County, PA) High School alumni,
Opus Project (getting close to Opus 95 -- 8pm, Saturday, July 9, Center for New Music, San Francisco),
and
Family
(a socially-separated,
progressive-
relevatory
affair),
more blogging and emailing,
a double-dose of Stephen Colbert (b. 1964) -- very early and late this same day -- with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (b. 1989)
and
Adam Kinzinger (b. 1978), plus
more
hopeful
news
across
the
political spectrum...
Ah, yes, also the birthdays of
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944 -- clear inspiration for
The Little Prince, Op. 89 [2000]),
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975),
Jose Pablo Moncayo (1912-1958),
Rafael Kubelik (1914-1996)...