Out and up to San Francisco Community Music Center for another marathon rehearsal of
Sex and the Bible: The Opera (Part I), with three hours on location, followed by an hour break and drive to Berkeley, and a second similar session at Chamber Arts.
First we stage in the space, backing up to 6. Israel in Trouble: IV. Fly Away,
V.
Well, Well,
Well, Well,
Well, and
VI. Shouldn't
Work
for
Nothing, through 7: Amazing Joseph (including
6. Israel: VI. ...Leah had a baby...
...Bilhah had a baby...
...Zilpah had a baby...
VII. How to Depart
...She's on her period...
...May the Lord watch...
VIII. On His Way
...Take your hands from me...
IX. One Day Dinah
7. Amazing: II. Meanwhile Judah (Tamar)
...Er was killed by God...
...Onan married Tamar...
--He spilled his seed on the ground...
...No one to sleep with me...
...Meanwhile Judah's wife died...
...Recognize whose staff this is?...
...Fair cop, she should have had Shelah...
III.
Now
the
Ishmaelites
(Potiphar's Wife), and
V. Pharaoh Had a Dream),
then begin a run from 1. The Creation through 3. Noah's Flood ("Noah, Noah"): A Mystery Play (featuring
1. VII. Let Us Make Man
...Male and Female...
...Created...
...Them...
2. Quartet for the Beginning of Time: Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel
II. Vocalise for the Disobedience
...You will
know
good
from
evil,
III. Abyss of Separation
...I was naked...
...Who told you that you were naked...
...Did you eat from the fruit...
...(Wo)man that you gave me...
...You'll crawl on your belly...
IV. Ragime
Intermezzo
of
Expulsion,
V. Lounging in an Eternity of Strife
...Striking differences...
...Where is your brother...
...I'm not able,
VIII. Lounging in Mortality (Baby Boom Boogie-Woogie Begats),
3. Noah:
I. Wicked Prelude, and
IX. Rainbow Te Deum).
At Chamber Arts, we continue from 5. Abraham and Isaac
(II. The Separation...
...You are so beautiful...
...Choose any part of the land you want...
cycle through (among the rest, IV. The Covenant /
V. The Slave
Girl,
[Lot in Life]: VIII. The Destruction (Lotsa Luck / Parking Lot's Wife / Lotherio)
...Come, our father is old, and
XII. The Sacrifice), and run a second time, then home for page 5 Psalm 8 and Song of Solomon (4), plus SATB promotion.
