Cliff is off on his adventure to Pennsylvania, followed closely by the more extended one to Indonesia, so, with passport in hand,
we
are
eventually
off,
down
I-
80
into
the
fog
of
San
Francisco,
only to finally acknowledge that Oakland is the immediate destination!
It's been great having Cliff stay with us, and we all look forward to further marvels!
Not enough time to get to Davis Community Presbyterian Church for Band rehearsal, so Harriet is solo, bringing home the amaing news that Tony is funding performance there of what will be the finally complete world premiere of The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998 -- which has been heard in partial Christmas-y formats over the years, the work having been initially distributed as a series of holiday cards) on a program with the Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951),
that Harriet and I have both previously performed over decades, including together in the early Goat Hall / SF Cabaret Opera years...
147th day of summer, high again 99
Fairfield, 89
Oakland, 63
San Francisco, 60
Pleasant Hill, 85
the 135th birthday of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968 -- Self-Portrait in Profile, 1958),
creating a new web page on the
Complete Works site re
Ave Maris Stella, Op. 184 (2010),
editing page 34
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
I. Allegro
and doing the dream-work text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
July 27-28
4am Carolyn and I try to Make Up, and there Is Revelation..
10am Subject, as Others Are, to Hunting Raids in a National Park,
Escaping Through Tunnel From Somwhere Else via Train -- Abusive, Laughing,
Mostly Unseen Military Parties, Eventually in Relative Safety to Take in
Spectacular Scenery, Yellowstone-y, w/ Some Aspects of Greenery of East / Pacific Northwest,
Trying to Take a Photo from a Cliff Across Water to Amazing Precipice,
Almost Vertigo (a "Leg Feeling" as Bette Would Say), Moving to Viewpoint,
But Then Led Astray Down Two Paths Where Viewpoints Are Not So Extraordinary,
Some Tourists in Viewshed... Transvestism at Times,
Changing Outfit and Pondering Differences... Front-Loading...
to a sonic / visual world of
G.F. Handel (1685-1759) -
Water Music (1717),
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) - Romance for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 35 (1888),
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894)
Three Nocturnes (1901)
Richrd Strauss (1864-1949) - Also Sprach Zarathustra (1898)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39 (1899)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Trois Gymnopedies (1888)
Premier Menuet (1920)
and various news hopeful and
suspect...