August 28 - Fellow Travellers
Up
early
with
Harriet to Davis
Community
Presbyterian
Church
for
rehearsals
in
Sancuary and
Music Room, then
service,
including
opening
hymn
[James K. Manley (b. 1940) -
Spirit of Gentleness (1976)],
Discovery Time with Kate,
Prayer from Eunbee,
Carmen and Juan reading in Spanish from Genesis,
Exodus,
and
Luke,
Elizabeth delivering the Sermon,
a lovely Musical Meditation,
Prayers of the People,
Invitation to Give,
Closing Hymn,
Blessing,
Postlude, and
Coffee with, among others,
Emma, Amy [who may be Evangeist in The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)],
Lou Ann (who makes a similar pilgrimage to the community as we do), and her husband (welcoming him here for the first time).
Return
both
sinuously
and
quadrilaterally
on
a number of
roads beginning
with the letter "S"
(Sparling / Sievers / Schroeder / Silveyville),
but finishing on Meridian,
Allendale,
505, and
Monte Vista --
to produce bassoon part for
The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)
edit
page 68
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
I. Allegro
and
Isaiah, Op. 175 (2009)
LXI. The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me (61: 1-2)
create title and
web pages on the Works site re
Three Sacred Choruses, Op. 215 (2013)
reconfigure
Parables ("Terror and Wonder"), Op. 365 (2021)
Tales for Voices and Orchestra
Prologue: The Spirit of the Lord
with a bit more text vis a vis
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
August 27-28
1am What Happens to Them? They Scrape the Bottom...
2am And I Didn't Ask You, Because It Be Too Much Work...
7am Labor Day as End of Summer at Church, What a Revelation!
9am And Yet, from a Social Aspect, Not So Much...
Early evening break
walking the 110th leg of the Vacaville Streets cycle,
East Stoneridge north.
Stonegate south to
Stonecastle
west,
detouring up and down
Stonehill,
then pressing on to
East Stoneridge --
on this rocky,
so to speak,
178th
day of summer,
high down a tick to
91
(93 in Davis)...
the birthday of
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) and
Richard Tucker (1913-1975, seen here in costume for Giordano's Andrea Chenier, 1896) +
the 59th anniversary of the March on Washington (for Jobs and Freedom, 1963).
The rather full day of media events also includes
Ukraine - AshTree,
a report that marijuan use now surpasses that of tobacco,
drought in California and
Nevada,
wildfires in Oregon,
the checkered history of the John Boleyn (1250-1283) family, detailed in
The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (2021),
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Violin Concerto in No. 10 in G Major (1711),
Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) - Concerto in G Major (1713): I. Allegro
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) - Symphony in A Minor, Op. 21 (1775),
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) - Moise (1818),
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major ("Rhenish"), Op. 97 (1850),
Joachim Raff (1822-1882) - Symphony No. 7 in Bb ("In dem Alpen"), Op. 201 (1875),
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) - Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (1887),
Jean Baptiste Accolay (1833-1900) - Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor (1868),
Mily Balakirev (1836-1910) - Suite on Four Pieces of Chopin (1909): I. Preambule Etude,
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Piano Quartet No. 1 (1880): II. Scherzo
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) - Mallorca, Op. 2020 (1892),
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - 7 Morceaux de Salon, Op. 10 (1894): IV. Melody in E Minor,
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Menuet Antique (1895),
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) - Nocturne (1911),
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) - Louisiana Story (1948): Acadian Songs and Dances - IV. Alligator,
the Ken Burns (b. 1953) 2021 documentary on
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961),
Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) - Star Trek (1966): Season 1, Production 16. The Menagerie,
The Dick Van Dyke [b. 1925] Show (1961) - I, 17. Punch Thy Neighor (1962),
David Attenborough (b. 1926) -
Extinction: The Facts (2020),
Jac Venza (b. 1926) - Great Performances (1974): XLIX. Vienna Philharmonic Summer Concert (2022), featuring Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) - The Bartered Bride Overture (1866),
phone calls and
computer work,
Joe Biden (b. 1942) appropiately characterizing the MAGA crowd as semi-fascists (semi!?),
Huell Howser (1945-2013) - California's Gold (1991): 402. Historic Horses (1993),
David Fanning (b. 1946) - Frontline (1983) - XL, 11. The Power of Big Oil (2022),
more of the FBI psearch of the Psychopath's psodden top-psecret psins,
but we'll drop the psignature psychodelics re Al Sharpton (b. 1954) and
Symone Sanders (b. 1989) reporting,
the Diana Spencer (1961-1997) 2021 documentary
Royal Rogue (Harriet's idea) --
much of the day's endeavors definitely/ metaphoridcally Outside Beyond the Lens (2021, but in this case II, 10. [Nevada's] Valley of Fire)...