Up very early, putting the Perceiving the Arts Music Exam up at markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/07/tan-dun-b-1957.html, then
making the jump to
St. Mary's to give
same.
But first it's Rebecca's brilliant Theatre section on the beginning of
Samuel Beckett's
Happy Days, followed by stimulating neo-Baroquish business from Jia's Dance exam.
After the triple-threat Tan Dun (Ghost Opera, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The First Emperor), it's off to Diablo Valley for Karla's and Elena's dictation/sight-singing on the Disney Hercules and Chris's board harmony re Peter Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. We also finish up round four of compositions including
Vespers: V. Pulchra Es (also from
Song of Solomon).
Next, light-speed to
Marin,
doing the grades, at Celia's,
for Perceiving
(quite an array,
mostly high),
post-boxing
and
videoing,
above
and
beyond
to
the
border
into
Sonoma, for another walk
now
east
at the
intersection of Sonoma
Mountain Road and
Bennett
Valley,
up the
latter
past the
quick
and the
not-so-quick,
as the
light
fades towards an evening including more orchestration of Creation: IV (page 14) and composition of Vespers: IX. Audi Coelum (Part II) (8).
