Celebrating mostly within,
our semi-quarantine in these semi-democratic times,
though tragedies continue to occur without,
on this 123rd day of summer,
high up 10 to 87,
spirits beginning to revive in the
79th Vacaville Streets Walk:
simply Arcadia,
southwest
from
Woodstock to
Danbury / Killingsworth,
returning
to
continue
work including
creating cover and
web pages on the Complete Works site for
Vocal Sonataina No. 5 ("Angier"), Op. 160 (2008)
editing page
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
I. Allegro
Create Complete Works page for
Vocal Sonatina No. 5 ("Angier"), Op. 160 (2008)
and compiling text for
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
July 3-4 (Pain in Right Hand That Does Not Go Away)
2pm A Text Message That Makes No Sense Whatsover
7am Unknown Publication
8am Very Successful World Music Intro Lecture in a Warehouse,
All Of Us Standing and Moving Around, At One Point Outside w/ a Shakuhatchi-Clarinet(?),
Demonstrating Gliding and Discrete Pitch, at Another, Inside on a Precipice,
Sititting Briefly on a Long Narrow Board Over a Hot Pipe, Going Over Quiz Possibilities /
Answers for a Second Session....
Turns out American Independence Day is also the birthday of George Everest (1780-1866),
Hiram Walker (1819-1899 -- after all, libations with which to celebrate are welcome!),
Stephen Foster (1826-1864... + song... the female component of the adage wonderfullly fulfilled by our Beloved)
James Anthony Bailey (1847-1906 -- many appropriate All-American citations in this list...),
Rube Goldberg (1883-1970.. indeed!...)
Flor Peeters (1903-1986... well...), and
Mitch Miller (1911-2019... yes!...).
A continued brightening, paradoxically in Anton Bruckner (1824-1897) - Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (composed in his final year), and definitely, surprisingly
Capitol Fourth (first aired in 1980, and now live again beyond the initial 2 years of the Pandemic),
including non-ironic evocations of Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) - The Star-Spangled Banner (1969, after the John Stafford Smith, 1750-1836, melody of c. 1773) and
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) -
West Side Story (1957): America.
a nice pianistic take on
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) -
The Stars and Stripes Foreever (1896 -- repeated at the end of the prsentation in its band original, lamentably truncated at the Trio, such that only a fragment of the piccolo obligato is heard).
Overall,
a
fine
festive
show,
for
a
country
that
may
endure!