MARK ALBURGER, 2022: July 8

Create a web page on the Complete Works site for

Alphabetic Homage[inization]s, Op. 163 (2008),

edit page 15

Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
     I. Allegro

and dream up text for

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     July 7-8
          3am Fast Growing Plants and a Harriet Smile...
          5am Occurance of Quality of Life Issues, as Cliff Gets Bettter and We Don't Have It...
          11am Number of People Affected by a Reduction of Freedom, as Tabulated in a Musical Post,
               with Jpg List... Parking at NorthBay Primary Care, Jockeying Amongst a Number of
               Departing and Arriving Cars, One Backing Up, But Translucent, Fragmentary, and
               2-Dimensional, Finding a Space Two-Beyond a Badly Parked Pick-up, and Speculating
              About Someone Trying to Squeeze in Between...

Time to set out on the 82nd Vacaville Streets Walk: South Danbury east (thinking about the proponderance of

palm, cypress, and redwood in our area and -- voila! -- there they are), in sight of the

Vaca Mountains. to

Arcadia;

then reversing course to walk north and

south on West Danbury, in moony view --

the sun officially setting at 8:38pm,

but occluded at 8:20 by the

Coast Ranges,

in a warm afterglow,

on the 127th day of summer,

high up 4 to 95...

a day of the miraculous and

quixotic,

with a playlist featuring

F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 104 in D Major ("London") (1795),

William Sterndale Bennett (1817-1875) - The Maid of Orleans, Op. 46 (1869): II. In the Field,

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-)1881) - Khovanschina (1880): Prelude,

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Symphony No. 3 in D Major ("Polish"), Op. 29 (1875),

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 (1906), and

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Menuet Antique (1895) --

celebrating the birthdays of 3 composers and an architect, to wit:

Percy Grainger (1882-1961),

Ernst Bloch (1885-1977 -- who used to live on the Oregon Coast, and whose postumous Festival featured Mice Suite No. 2, Op. 53 (1996) back in the year of its composition),