December 4 - Smiles All Around


2nd


Davis Community Church


Chamber


Orchestra

rehearsal

for

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)


     The Nativity


                   According to
      

                                                St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)

and


Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)


     Amahl

                and

                       the Night Visitors (1951)

both

as


part

of


the

upcoming

DCC Music

Christmas Concert!

4pm, Saturday, December 11, 2022

(Corner of 4th and C Streets, Davis CA)


and

all

goes quite well


so far!

29th day of Fall,

high 59

(Davis, 57),

up 13 from yesterday's wintery 46,

making


our

way

to

another

fine


choral warm-up, and

Morning Service (Community News,

Welcome,

Installation,

Advent Candle,

Prayer,

Discovery

Time,


Prayer for Understanding,

Sermon delivered by Jim Goss,

Communion

held

indoors of

necessity,

Blessing,

Recessional,

with

a

lovely

on-

request

Christmas

Carol

Sing

following),

and


preparing

for

the

ensuing

rehearsal --

which

includes

set-up,

vocal

spot-

checks,

greeting early orchestral personnel,


partaking


in a

brief pizza luncheon, with

costumes for vocalists.


In other news, put

Broke Dance Intermezi: K, Op. 307 (April 6, 2019)

up on the



Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2019/04/broke-dance-intermezzi-k-op-307.html

in counterpoint to news of early Georgia voting in the runoff between Raphael Warnock and the Republican clown who is semi-challenging him (which has to be good news for the Democrats), plus


Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
     Petrushka (1911)


George


            Lucas


                      (b.



                             1944)


     Return


                of


                   the


                      Jedi


                              (1983)


and



Mallory McMorroww (b. 1986) holding forth!...