The morning St. Mary's run via
Cherry
and
Lagoon Valleys
and
Fairfield Pyramids
et al, for music from G.F. Handel to Giuseppe Verdi: video of the latter's Rigoletto: La donna'e mobile through the storm; former's Messiah: Hallelujah and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5: I -- both with scores, respectively piano-vocal and full -- then Quiz 2, Renaissance through Romantic, adding Josquin des Pres El Grillo.
Off to Diablo Valley for Quiz 12, Voice-Leading, with musical examples from Paul McCartney, Leonard Bernstein, Roger Waters, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Marin is up next for
paper-grading (again, mostly A's and some B's for the Theoreticians) and
post-box check,
returning north via Mission
(a daily walk years ago while teaching at Marin Academy);
Laurel Place (of viewful first apartment and
imagined house notoriety);
the
Robert
Dollar
Drive's views of
Mt. Tamalpais,
San Rafael,
and,
San Pedro
Ridge (what lies behind that freeway wall?);
the passes of
101;
the ridges of
37,
and
80
(with another supply stop) -- orchestrating page 5 of Creation: II and composing the next (9) for Vespers: VI.
