With Harriet and I having voted early by mail, Cliff heads to San Rafael to cast his ballot at First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, where I was music director and he baptized.
We mind the homefront, updating the title and establishing a
webpage on the Complete Works site for
Rossetti Songs, Op. 133 (2006, orchestration of Thomas Whitman settings),
editing page 11 re
Bassoon Concerto ("Grandmother"), Op. 120 (2004)
I. Allegro
and dreaming up text as to
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
June 6-7
8am Routefind re a Berkeley Urban Creek Canyon Connection, First Down and Up Twice a Steep
Series of Rails Projecting From a Cliff, We Think Telegraph Avenue Has Degenerated Into a
Dirt Path in a Canyon Across a Straight Creek, Bridge Extending Over, We Are On Other Side
With Another Ateep Descent, Eventually Step Into an Adjacent Splendid Hotel to Ask
Directiongs, Clerk Wants to Tell Me Directions to a Next Goal, But I Get Him to Focus on
Street Names and He says We're on Cavanaugh, One Block Further Away, As I Leave,
Wonder If I've Taken a Picture of All This Magnificence, Proceeding Another Distance,
It Is Still Not Obvious Where the Path / Trail Lies,
Terrain Is Perhaps a Little Like Pittsburgh...
9am Where Is the Original Landing / Electrification Monument? -- A Bright Big Blue Scissors
Shape at an Urban Crossroads Here, or on Adjacent Grassy Hillock, Accessed by a Bike Path
on a Bicycle Towards a Similar Yellow Monument There,
Looking North From this Perhaps New Englandy Situation to What May Be the Marin
Headlands Viewed from San Francisco... Fall Asleep w/ Computer on Lap? -- No!
Old Heavy-Set Aunts at Garden Party...
96th day of summer,
and that's the temperature, too -- up 6 from yesterday, and the birthdays of
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903, Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake, 1889),
Prince (1958-2016, Purple Rain, 1984), and
Mike Pence (b. 1959)! -- seen almost here on the
second of two
Stephen Colbert (b. 1964) episodes,
the first with
Jake Tapper (b. 1969).
The day's listening / viewing includes a documentary on Portugal with Joseph Rosendo (b. 1946),
a time of Congressional silence and stirring speech from native son
Matthew McConaughey (b. 1969) for the victims in Uvalde,
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - Symphony No. 3 in A Minor ("Scottish"), Op. 56 (1842),
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - Violin Concerto in D Minor (1853),
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Voyevoda (1869),
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) - Goyescas (1911): IV. The Maiden and the Nightingale,
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Pavane for a Dead Princess (1900),
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) - The Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2 (1921),
Nicolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950) - Symphony No. 25 in Db Major, Op. 69 (1946)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) - Suite Provencale, Op. 152 (1936),
George Gershwin (1898-1937) - Rhapsody No. 2 (1931),
more revelations about the
Execrable Infantile Psychopath,
wisdom from David Corn (b. 1959) and
Amy Klobuchar (b. 1960),
William Monahan (b. 1950) -
Kingdom of Heaven (2005),
with music of Harry Gregson-Williams (b. 1961), with
with eager anticipation of two-day's-from-now's first public January 6 Committee Hearings, which we'll definitely catch (unlike Fox)...