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)...