Only a couple of days before
Cliff's double adventure to Pennsylvania and Indonesia (quite a combination),
and we watch, with Harriet,
a classic old Star Trek (1966) together: Season 3, Production 66. Day of the Dove (1968),
recalling those days of Cliff's youth when we (surprise, surprise) bought one VHS episode a week at Marin's Northgate Mall, after hiking down San Rafael Hill together from home to there on Friday nights...
In other news,
take the
next leg of the
Vacaville Streets Walk
by
strolling
variant Stoneybook south to
Colby,
north again towards
Cooper School,
east unto
Fremont --
on the
145th day of
summer,
high up 4 to
98...
another perfect
day
to head out with the beloved
gathering goods and
servicers at the
local enterprises,
metaphorically semi-speeding
homeward, on this the birthday of Georges
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and
Grosz (1893-1959 -- Self-Portrait with Model, 1928),
producing a new
web page on the Works site re
which somehow also needs placement on the Genre List), and, while in the neighborhood,
update the area
as to
The Four Temperaments, Op. 402 (July 16, 2022).
Also
more
computerwork, including editing page 32
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
I. Allegro
and typing the text o'
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
July 25-26
4am Power Through an SF Intersection in a Gulch w/ Railroad Tracks,
Female Attendant Whistles / Loudspeakers Me to Stop and I Do,
Even Back Up a Bit But Realize There's Probably a Car Behind,
Apologize Profusely, She Says Why Did You Do that? Answering; I Got Flustered
(A Word Rarely If Ever Used), Turn Right at Next Intrersection Still in Gulch,
with Road Construction, Only One Lane Driveable, Cliff Is With Me,
and We Comment on the Vocabulary...
5am Silver Sequined Female Black Performer Doing a Blues Production Number on Old Lang
Syne... Southeast on Street....
10am 3 Random Items in the Backseat Passenger Side of My Car Are Found by President
and Dealt w in That Order on TV; One Is Climate Change...
11am Democratic Representative Talked About a Busy Day That Weekend
(Explaining Why a Certain Neighborhood Went Pink -- Republican --
in Strange Contemporary Map Convention)
All this, and general catch-up, in consort with excellent three-way conversation, and
Ferdinand Ries (1784-1938) - Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 123 (1806),
John Knowles Paine (1839-1906) - Overture to "As You Like It", Op. 28 (1876),
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Symphony No. 2, ("Ukrainian"), Op. 17 (1872),
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 - Symphony No. 2 (1894): I. Todtenfeier,
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - Divertimento, Op. 86 (1941): II. Musette de Choisy,
Frank Bridge (1879-1941) - Three Idylls (1906),
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Bluebeard's Castle, Op. 11 (1911)
Four Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 12 (1912)
The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19 (1924)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
Piano Sonata (1926)
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1938)
Concerto for Orchestra (1943)
a surprising double-dose of Gunnar de Frumerie (1908-1987)
Pastoral Suite, Op. 13 (1936)
and
Violin Concerto, Op. 19 (1976),
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Suite on English Folks ("A Time There Was"), Op. 90 (1974),
the film (1994) of Winston Grrom (1943-2020) - Forrest Gump (1986) -- yes, rebroadcast off and again on a certain movie channel, so here we go again, at least in part),
Micahel Nyman (b. 1944) - La Traveree de Paris (1889): XIII. Hotel de la Ville, and
welcome news that the Insurrectionist Lying Psychopath Traitor
is finally being directly investigated by the Department of Justice,
in a political environment of
continuing
hope...