Wednesday, April 7, 2010

April 7 - Bright, Shadowy Undertakings


Finish the publication-preparation of Psalm 16 (6 pages total), finally write the review of Ensemble Parallele's West Coast premiere of John Rhea's orchestral reduction of Alban Berg's Wozzeck (a lot of possessives is perhaps a clause of concern) at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, transfer same plus Chronicle and Publication info to the archival and print version drafts of 21st-Century Music -- then through Jameson Canyon on this just-cresting-the-summer-mark 70-degree day,


past the Wine Guy,


zipping up the newly-appreciated Napa Road in Sonoma to 5th Avenue West's views of the city and county's



Mountain, attempting to avoid the town's traffic hotspots and



failing miserably (who knows what lurks beneath these palms?), to yesterday's turn-around point at Trinity Road's



Lower



Hairpin, with views back downslope towards the



Valley of the Moon. In short order -- past



meadows, distant



domiciles,and several concerned drivers who ask after my well-being (sanity would be another issue... am not utilizing the bike today for the downhills, so perhaps I appear less recreative and simply more isolated) -- we reach the



transisition



curve,



adjacent to the last chaparral uplands, of the



grassy



foothills, with



signs



musical.













Ever down



through twisted trunks and



isolated



members, past



paths and



pastures,



meadows open and



closed, with the distant



hauntings of the



heights, to a



cop standing vigil near the intersection with Route 12. "Speed trap?" "No, just taking a break." "Good place to be breaking." "Good place to be walking."



Back in the car, law enforcer mercifully on his way, exploring around




Dunbar ("not dumb bear") Road, then



south of



Glen Ellen,



south of



Sonoma,



east



to



Napa,



thence



hence



home, for



page 3 of Song of Solomon: IV. Also begin Psalm 17.