Chancel
and
Chamber
Choir
rehearsals,
conducted by Emma Turnbull, with Joanne as accompanist,
in preparation for Sunday services and the
2022 Christmas Concert!
4pm, Sunday, December 11
Davis Community Presbyterian Church
Corner of C and 4th
Davis, CA
featuring
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951)
***
The day begins by
vacatimg the premises (At least temporarilly),
rediscovering
the
wonders,
of a
local
Italian
eatery,
returning to the major undertaking of putting
Book of Dreams, 2018, Op. 277 (2018) on the Complete Works Site -- it's the table of contents, which is gargantuan... simply a chronicle of dreams of that year, which became a watershed transitional, beginning with a tactile dream wrestling a meerkat, and arguably continuing, though eventually seemingly dissapating a bit, to this day. So what is (was) going on? Considered the possibility of increasing madness, but, mercifully, just seems like an increased awareness of the body's transferring of cognitive information. A mysterious world, but certainly a universality of human experience -- although, one never knows, could be more specific omens, we shall see...
Initially it became simply Book of Dreams, but the dreamworld continued through years, so seemed at least reasonable to divide work up into years -- though these are still ridiculously huge. So, what goes? The work is basically literary text, written down as faithfully as possible immediately after as a text file. The idea was to set each as a piece -- initially parallelling with any great poet, but, with Harriet's consideration, eventually realized that direct chronicle was possible, and probably optimal.
And, as to whether there's any chance of setting the all the prose-titles? Well, perhaps some other composer... And these literary entities... possibly they amount to something of themselves... By now, at least one opus is a video cycle, so why not at anotherr more on the verbal side?...
Late morning,
afternoon,
and
evenings --
the
labors
are
to
an
Italian
Alps
documentary
(Jewels
of
the
.. 2022),
.and
out
eventually
on this
2nd day of
fall --
high down 3 to
65....
with the day's compositional complexities including
J.S. Bach (1685-1722)
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (1722)
Prelude and Fugue No 8 in Eb Major
Conrad Ditters von Dittersdorf (1789-1799)
Symphony in C Major ("The Four Ages of Man") (1789)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Tannhauser (1845)
Grand March
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Symphony No. 2 in Eb Major, Op. 63 (1911)
Henry Haadley (1871-1910)
Symphony No. 4 in DMinor ("North, East, South, West"), Op. 64 (1910)
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Cello Concerto in E Minor (1978)
and
an
ample
dose
of
Stephen Colbert (b. 1965)!...