February 2 - Hope


Compose


Romans 8: 24-25, Op. 379 (2022) --

kind of a backhand endeavor, as initially set out to edit

St. Paul Suite, Op. 145 (2007)
    IV. Blind


seaching for (and not very confident in finding) Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Oedipus Rex (1927 -- with its reference to "Oedipus has piereced his eyes with her golden pin") online, but, lo and behold, 2022 is just over 50 years after the composer's death, so suddenly 96 of his pieces are now available on the International Music Score Library Project -- yipee! -- so duly dig in, just in case the out-of-copyright-in-Canada doesn't work south of the border in future (such was the case w/ Sergei Prokofiev for an interval...), but then happen upon A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer (1961), and decide that the first movement of this (second movment previously troped in St. Paul Suite, Op. 145 [2007]), would be useful in The Letters, Op. 360 (2021) and can stand as two independent pieces, the first above...


Also update the Works site re

The Twelve Finters, Op. 8 (1977)

and provide more text w/r/t

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     February 1-2
          9am Outer Space Roller Derby, Passing a Doll Around, Flowers Growing....
               Not the Good Guys / Bad Guys Expected... A Couple of Fleeting Ones Upon Retiring...
          10am Synchronized Zoom Meetings, Talking Giraffe...


As yesterday,


rather blustery day,


31st of


spring,


high up 1 to


62,


with


contrapuntal accompaniment including a


PBS program on pumas (w/ guanacos in supporting roles),


Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) - Concerto in G Minor, S. 213 (1723),


Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-1775) - Concerto Grosso No. 8 in E Minor (1747),


F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Trumpet Concerto in Eb Major (1798),


Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - Symphony No. 6 in C Major (1818),


Franz Liszt (1811-1886) -Paganini Etudes 91851): III. La Capanella,


Mikhail Ginka (1804-1857) - Valse Fantasie (1839)


Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 (1885),


Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Symphony No. 5, Op. 82 (1919),


Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Symphony No. 4, Op. 112 (1947),


Jean Absil (1893-1974) - Flemish Rhapsody (1934),


Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) - Ballet Suite No. 1 (1950),


William Asher (1921-2012) - Bewitched (1964, theme music by Jack Keller, 1938-2005): Season 7, Episode 18 The House that Uncle Arthur Built (1971), featuring Paul Lynde(1928-1982)'s referencing of Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) - Pagliacci (1892)


Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932) - Not Love Alone (1961), and

William Peterson (b. 1941) - Air Force One (1997), score by Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004).


More horrors revealed re the Lying Psychopath -- and

given the amount of evidence

from two impeachment trials,


January 6 and its fore- and aftermath,



to say nothing of


general criminal behavior


throughout life,


isn't it time


for justice


to


prevail?


So say we all!


Meanwhile, time to continue to get organized...

February 1 - Love, Love, Love


Compose


1 Corinthians 13, Op. 378 (2022)
     13 Verses for Voice/Xylophone and Percussion Orchestra (13)

over the course of the day, beginning very early morning, with an extensive break that yields more text re

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     January 31 - February 1 (Beginning 2nd Wk Retirement)
          6am Rolling Freeway Conveyor Belt a la Robert Heinlein,
               Guy w/ "Alpenhorn" Walks Up and "Merges" Into Structore w/ a
               Kind of Green Drainage-Pipe Instrument, He Is Swiss Bearded, Big Signs Along Road,
               "Are You a Believer" re Lighting Up Night Sky w/ Lights That Will Turn Night to Day. 
               I'm Not....
          8am Free Italian Trip, but I Spend Time Writing About Mexican Food
          9am Forget to Bring Quiz re End of First Week, People w/ Questions,
              One Apparaently Talking to Someone Else, Not Me, Small Class,
              Several Focussed on Television Screen at Back, Against Windows,
              Decide to Give Quiz Orally from Computer, But Can't Particularly Find...

And additionally update the Works website for

Interrupted Interludes, Op. 7 (1977)

The backgrounds to these labours of love are

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Orchestral Suite No. 4 (1730): I. Ouverture,


F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 102 in Bb Major (1794): I. Largo-Vivace


Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - Benvenuto Cellini, Op. 23 (1838): Overture,


Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) - Iberia (1909), both in its original piano rendition and in


     orchestration principally credited to Carlos Surinach (1915-1997),


Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - Divertimento after Keyboard Pieces of Couperin for Chamber Orchestra (1941), Op. 86,


Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) -


     Cello Concerto, Op. 40 (1956), heard by the composer the last day before death,


          his ashes scattered on May Hill,


          where Morris ("Moorish", related to the Renaissance Moresque Dance, c. 1450) Dancers (pictured above Will Kemp [1560-1604, renowned, yet dying in poverty] -- William Shakespeare[1564-1616]'s company "fool" -- dancing across England, 1600) hold forth each 1st of said month... and


Ernesto Halffter - Serenade a Dulcinee (1951).


Futher revelations of the Crimes of the Former Guy continue, as he blames Mike Pence for the Insurrection,


and his role in


attempted voter-machine seizures


deepens.


A re-run of PBS/Frontline *****'s American Carnage (January 15, 2021 -- once again, a line first uttered by the First Baby proved reflexive... just about any horrible thing he says about others is really about himself) helps in review....


Another horror of the politico-socio day is the plethora of bomb threats against Historically Black Universities -- 3rd time this year, and certainly in part due to the Racist Orangman's rhetoric (too big of a word for his Infantile Rantings, but euphonous) -- motivating a bit a research re such Institutions,


which date back to the founding of Southeastern Pennsylvania's Cheyney University (as the African Institute in 1937, due to the initial largesse of Quaker philanthorpist Richard Humphrey, 1750-1832), a visual stone's-throw away from Westtown School, and my association there from 1983-1986.


30th day of spring,


high down 6 to 61,


with another dynamic


San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra board meeting in the evening...