MARK ALBURGER, 2022: August 4 - Reading Between the Lines

Emma and I read through

The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998), as pianist and vocalist -- a great start to upcoming rehearsals, and I am touched that she has printed out and bound the piano-vocal score!

This as part of planning / rehearsals not only for Amahl and the Nativity (4pm, December 18, Davis Community Presbyterian Church, Davis, CA, featuring the aforesaid and Gian Carlo Menotti 1911-2007 - ... Night Visitors, 1951), but also

DCC Cabaret (October 1), featuring Harriet and

Juan.

Before

this,

make our

way to

Harriet's vocal lesson

and

Band

Rehearsal --

on the 154th day of summer, high again 103 (Davis, 102), the anniversaries of

the traditional invention of champagne (1693) by Dom Perignon (1638-1715) and

the German invasion of Belgium (1914), which resulted in that country and Great Britain declaring war against Germany, as well as the U.S. declaration of neutrality, + birthdays of

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822),

William Schuman (1910-1992), and

Helen Thomas (1920-2013).

Good times, including creating a new title and

web pages on the Complete Works site for

Twilight of the I-Pods, Op. 191 (2011)
For Performers and Sound Files

and a new recording, in addition to

editing page 41

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

chronicling the next text o'

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     August 3-4 (This Partly After Dropping Cliff Off in SF in the Early Previous Morning,
          Driving Through Fog at Intersection of Coast Highway / Skyline Drive, Etc.,
          and Proceeding Homeward Through Marin...)
     2pm A Reading / Singing from Henry Miller in Brooklyn, Part of Egypt,
          Against Which There Is Machine Noise in Adjacent Room
          (Later, Turns Out There Is Yard Noise Outside in Real Life),
          I Close a Descending Scroll Blind in Dream Between Adjacent Rooms,
          and That Seems to Help, Next I Am With Two Cynical Females
          Who Are Responding to the Egypt Song, Which Seems to Be Done by Henry in This Version,
          The 2 Women, of Course, Are Not Part of the Muic Drama in the Original...
     9am The Governor Is Hungry, He Wants... She Stares Down at Her Cleavage...

and producing new editions of two hymns for DCC...

These in an environment including a documentary on

Joshua Tree,

more on Kansas's rejection of a constitutional abortion ban,

Leonin (1133-1201) - Hec Dies (1175)
France (c. 1170) - Ductia (1200)
Perotin (1170-1230) - Hec Dies (1200)
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170-1230) - Palastinalied (1200)
Ars Antiqua Motet (c. 1120) - Alle, Psallite -- Alleluya (1250)
Italy (c. 1270) - Trotto (1300)
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) - La Messe de Nostre Dame (1364): I. Kyrie
Gherardello da Firenze (1320-1363) Tosto che l'Alba (1350)
Gilles Binchois (1400-1450) - Files a Marier (1430)
Conrad Paumann (1415-1473) - Mit Ganczem Willen (1452)
Josquin des Pres (1450-1521)
     El Grillo (1500)
     Scaramella (1500)
Costanzo Festa (1490-1545) - Quando Ritrova (1520)
Henry VIII (1491-1547) - Pastime with Good Company (1509)
Andrea Gabrieli (1510-1585) - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (1580)
Thoinot Arbeau (1519-1595) - Jouyssance Vous Donneray (1549)
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) - Moro Lasso (1611)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) - Vespers (1610)
John Farmer (1570-1601) - Fair Phyllis (1599)
Will Kemp (1570-1603) - Kemp's Gig (1600)
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
     Terpsichore (1612)
          Three Branles Doubles
    La Bouree
     Lobt Gott (1613)
Okuni (1572-1613) - Kabuki Music (1603)