October 28 - Discoveries


Thanks to composer / recording-engineer Steve Mobia, download San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's


Circling Concert Video, and it is pretty great, posting


The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)

on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiWwmKj0cs4

this Cantata / Oratorio version featuring the wonders of soprano Megan Cullen (Evangelist, Angel, Prophet, et al) and modest vocal contribution a moi --


including playing Herod, Angels, Priests, etc.



Also create web page for

Fresh Voices I-XVII, Chronology in Thanks, Op. 272

on the Complete Works site,


during


this



239th day of




summer,


high


down


a


point

to


74 --


with


no


less


than



two


car


ballets


to


the


local


Firestone --


for


semi-


standard


maintenance,


circling


'round

in


light



and


shade,


that


Heraclitan


notion


of


motion...


with media including


F.J. Haydn (1732-1809)
     Symphony No. 45 in F# Minor ("Farewell"), Op. 45 (1772)


Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
     String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op.132 (1825)


Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
     Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22 (1832)


Mily Balakirev (1836-1910)
     Symphony No. 2 in D Minor (1908)


Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
     The Noon Witch, Op. 108 (1896)


Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
     Symphony No. 3 (1946)


Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
     Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951)


noting with horror the brutal attack against Paul Pelosi (b. 1940) by some Former-Guy-Crazy,


as we still await justice in that arena...