MARK ALBURGER, 2022

Update the Works site re

Poems on Crane, Op. 4 (June 1, 1975)
     For Mixed Chorus
   I. I SAW A MAN
   II. THE WAYFARER
   III. HYMN
   IV. THE BLADES OF GRASS
   V. THE HEART (IN THE DESERT)

Finish

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
   V. January 5 - 5am Running Upstairs / 7am Spectacular Ride / 9am Infinite Feedback

(30 pages total)

and continue text considerably beyond with

     January 28-29

          2pm Shostakovich on the News, Nope, iTunes...
          3am An Arts Festival, It's Not What You Think...
          4am My Signed Signature as Part of Sought-After-Decor for a Show...
          6am New Gaps in the BART System...
          8am Skinny Ira Gitlin Delivers Shirtless Speech Before Mirror to
               Motivate Students on Academic Strength...
               Hinged Door Representing Future Oportunities...
               Before That Acquire Giant Music Appreciation Suitcase
               Full of Tapes, Records, Etc, after a Professor Gives It Away to a
               Student Who Decides He Doesn't Want It Afterall,
               Proceed to a Packed Classroom Where My Successor Shows Up Late,
              Acknowdging that He Has Only 2 Years of Experience,
              I Say I Was Ready to Retire, Due to Health, Mobilithy, Etc, and
              Decide Not to Pursue Issue with Powers that Be..

Out mid-day for the 5th Vacaville Streets walk,

now West Olypmic

southeast to

Yellowstone,

then

southwest

East

Rainier.

From

here,

shopping

jaunt,

spending

part of a

generous wedding gift from Martha Cooper --

on the 27th day of spring,

high up 1 to 67...

Upon return,

receive stunningly good news vis a vis Calstrs,

and continue with work to a background of

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056 (1738),

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Triple Concerto in C Minor, Op. 56 (1803),

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (1842)

Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) - Paria (1869): Overture

Edouard Lalo (1823-1892) - Le Roi D'Ys (1888): Overture

Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) - Symphony No. 2 in D Minor (1908)

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Symphony No. 3 ("Polish"), Op. 29 (1875) and

Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (1885),

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Hero's Song, Op. 111 (1897),

Leos Janacek (1854-1928) - On an Overgrown Path (1912): I. Our Evenings

Julius Rontgen (1855-) - Symphony No. 18 in A Major (1931),

Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909) - Three Pieces, Op. 61: III. Giga (1892)

Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) - Iberia, Book 2 (1909): I. Rondena

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Symphony No. 10 (1911)... hmm...,

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Symphony No. 8 in Eb Major, Op. 83 (1908),

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Night Ride and Sunrise, Op. 55 (1908),

Enrique Granados (1867- 1916) - Six Pieces on Spanish Folksongs (1900),

Frederick Converse (1871-1940) - The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 19 (1904),

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) - Three Pieces, Op. 2 (1889): III. Etude in C# Minor,

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) - Petite Suite de Concert (1911): II. Demande et Reponse,

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - La Valse (1920),

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) - La Boutique Fantasque (1919),

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 (1938),

George Gershwin (1898-1937) - Piano Concerto in F (1925),

Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) - Symphony No. 1 (1949),

Joan Trimble (1915-2000) - Suite for Strings (1915): III. Finale,

Mario Broeders (b. 1931) - Canning y Triumvirato "Bar Argentina" (2014)...

Produce video and post same on YouTube re

Missa "The a Deux", Op. 21 (1980): II. Gloria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmfklACK1d8

compose pages 16-20 of

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
   V. January 5 - 5am Running Upstairs / 7am Spectacular Ride / 9am Infinite Feedback

with more following text as

    January 27-28
          9am Waiting After Gig in Parking Lot at Head of Red Pick Up Truck,
              We Hear Some Hippies Return, They Get Into Car Adjacent and Drive Away,
              Weh're Only Ones Left, Are We In Marin? I Say to Driver,
              Please Don't Run Me Over If I Lie Down in Front of Vehicle, But Think Better of Doing So,
              Too Far to Walk Home, Distant San Pedro Ridge, Guy Comes Up, Hands Me Card,
              Call This Number, Camerman Reached Settlement w/ Organizers for Not Using His Services,
              He Wants Me to Do Same (Call), Can't You Just Drive Us Home, I Say...

also update Works blog for

Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, Op. 3 (1975)

http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/1975/05/eccclesiastes-or-preacher-op-3.html

Out for the 4th Vacaville Streets walk

West Rainier from

Palm Cedar Midpoint,

southeast

towards

Yellowstone,

then

northeast

past the

Greenspace

East.

cross to

Ponderosa and

reverse course

on the

26th day of spring,

high down 2 to

66.

Background tracks of the workday include

news of the East Coast snowstorm,

no doubt a factor in

Pittsburgh's Forbes Avenue / Frick Park

Fern Hollow Bridge (seen here innocously eastbound, September 2021)

collapse

(view west),

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) - Etudes, Op. 25 (1838),

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Orpheus (1854 -- one of Music Choice's greatest hits, evidently),

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - My Homeland Overture, Op. 62 (1882),

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Mandoline (1882 -- same year as above, and in this case, pretty impressive for a 20-year-old -- Dvorak and Debussy w/ roughly the same lifespans, displaced c. 20 years),

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) - Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (1922) (ditto re another M.C. favorite),

Hermann Hans Wetzler (1870-1943) - Visionen, Op. 12 (1923 -- b. Germany, grew up in Chicago, back to Germany and Switzerland, then ultimately New York due to the Nazis), and a healthy dose of