Rent a van, load up the set in the rain, proceed to the city through seemingly relentless torrential outbursts,
clearing over the Bridge,
making the way to
San Francisco Community Music Center for
second
pre-tech
rehearsal
of
Sex and the Bible: The Opera (Part I), Op. 169 (2009).
We
rehearse from
I. THE CREATION: III. Let the Waters Be Gathered, through
6. ISRAEL IN TROUBLE: VI. Shouldn't Work for Nothing,
including
I. VII. Let Us Make Man
2. QUARTET
FOR
THE
BEGINNING
OF
TIME:
ADAM AND EVE AND CAIN AND ABEL:
II.
Vocalise
for the
Disobedience
III.
Abyss
of
Separation
IV. Ragtime Intermezzo of Expulsion
VIII. Lounging in Mortality (Baby Boom Boogie-Woogie Begats)
3. NOAH'S FLOOD ("NOAH, NOAH"):
A MYSTERY PLAY
I. Wicked Prelude
VII.
The Flood Te Deum
(The Little Death Raindrops Keep Falling Mainly in Mesopotamia)
IX. Rainbow Te Deum
5.
ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
II.
The
Separation
IV. The Covenant /
V. The Slave Girl
VI.
The
Circumcision
[LOT IN LIFE]
VII. The Plea (Lottery)
VIII. The Destruction (Lotsa Luck / Parking Lot's Wife / Lotherio)
IX. The Deception
X. The Birth /
The Banishment
XI. The Sacrifice / XII. The Burial / XIII. The Wife / XIV. The Death
6.
ISRAEL
IN
TROUBLE
I. If It Is Thus
III. Eyes Dim
IV. Fly Away
V. Well, Well, Well, Well, Well
VI. Shouldn't
Work
for
Nothing
Communal bussing of the set offstage and general clean-up take only ten minutes, then, after quick consultation with Beth, off to an
A.C.T. performance of
Bertolt Brecht's
Caucasian Chalk Circle,
returning down
Geary Street to parking on Van Ness, and thence home for more (3) Psalm 8 publication preparation and page 2 composition of The Song of Solomon.
