Second-to-last
class of the
semester
at St. Mary's,
with theatre, drama, and music reviews. Jia plays a brilliant video featuring music of David Lang, which precipitates a change of approach for the musical evaluation, playing Tan Dun's Ghost Opera and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Theory presentations continue thereafter at Diablo Valley College, with Meg's sight-singing on Richard Rodgers, and Shane's dictation on Ragtime Do-Si-Do (IV-I-V-I-iv-bVI-II-V-I), then off to Marin for paper grading at Celia's,
postbox checkup,
and the way
north to
Sonoma
for
another
walk on
Bennett Valley Road, now from the
pass west,
downslope past
oaks
and
vineyards,
shacks
and
ranches
under the shadows of
Sonoma Mountain to
Garnet Ranch
Pond.
Returning in the
twilight of
Ramage and Duhig
Roads,
the light fading all the way to Napa
and
Solano,
it's time to do more orchestration of The Creation: IV (page 6), finish the composition of Vespers: VIII. Nisi Dominus (through 22) begin that of IX. Concerto - Audi Coeli.
