Third rehearsal for the Davis Community Church Cabaret Fundraiser (7pm, Saturday, October 1), with Harriet March Page, Emma Turnbull, Elisa Stone,
Deborah Jory, and Julie Herdt --
which will include,
among other music,
Robert Lucas Pearsal (1795-1856) - Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti (1825 -- based on
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse [1774-1842] - Katte-Cavatine, 1804, and Giochino Rossini [1702-1868] - Otello, 1816),
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) - Candide (1956): Act I, Scene 4 - I Am Easily Assimilated, and
Henry Miller in Brooklyn, Op. 77 (1999): VI. Arthur Rimbaud...
Coming
and
going,
heading
homeward
briefly,
then
Harriet and I
back
out
in
two cars
to
Firestone:
1. Two warning lights on Harriet's car
adjusted gratis, having been triggered by a recent car wash (!);
2. double on mine rectified by tire inflation and
scheduling standard maintenance in near future.
From here,
jointly
on
a
supply run --
this being the
195th day of
summer,
high again
83,
locally and in Davis,
with the Mosquito Ridge Fire continuing
and
chubascos on the move... the birthdays of
Peter Lely (1618-1680),
Michael Haydn (1737-1806),
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859),
Eric Bentley (1916-2020), and
Allan Bloom (1930-1992).
Time
to place
Alma Maria Schnindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232 (2014) on the
Complete Works
site, also updating the
genre (33 operas to that point, with the opera-oratorios listed elsewhere) and
alphabetical listings -- as well as editing page 4
Harp Concerto ("Ballerina"), Op. 123 (2004)
I. Allegro giusto
and texturally augmenting
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
September 13-14
2am Weird Phrases From Google Maps...
9am Editing / Watching a History of T****ian Fascism on I-Movie / YouTube....
With the threat of a nation-wide railroad strike,
Elizabeth II (1926-2022) is transported to Wesminster Hall,
the Lying Psycopath continues on his evil path unpunished,
Mark Meadows (b. 1959) complies with a Department-of-Jusctice subpoena, as
Stephen Colbert (b. 1964) and
Stacey Adams (b. 1973) hold forth --
some of this discussed on the weekly Family Zoom (with Cliff still in Bali)!
The day's playlist includes Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Bassoon Concerto in Eb Major (1724),
Niels Gade (1817-1890) - Symphony No. 1in C Minor, Op. 5 (1842),
John Knowles Paine (1839-1906) - Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 23 (1875),
Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) - Symphony No. 2 in Eb Major (1913), and
Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) - Star Trek (1966):
I, 26. Errand of Mercy (1967)...