October 16 - Ups and Downs

Second page of Psalm 33 edited, following Harriet eventually out the door to Contra Costa,



Alameda, and



Santa



Clara to



Owen Lee's Mom's place



(he was raised in an Eichler!)



for his and Debbie's delightful Engagement Party with



Jerry



Kuderna,



Dick Kamprath, Jerry's Wife,



Rory Snyder, Glenn Appell, and lots of other friendly folks.



Home via the Peninsula, San Francisco, and Marin, thinking about Steven Clark's Facebook note...

"THE RULES: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing which albums my friends choose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people in the note). If you've already done this, send me a link to your list."

Response upon returning...

"Music of Africa ( traditional musics east, west, north, south)
Songs of the Earth, Water, Fire, and Sky: Music of the American Indian
A History of European Music (Denis Stevens, Medieval compilation)
The Six Wives of Henry the Eighth (David Munrow)
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites (Pinnock)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 and No. 7 (Karajan)
Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto (Ponnelle, Pavarotti)
Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire (Laine)
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (Monteux)
Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 3 (Abravanel)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 (Ormandy)
John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes (with a very "calypso" No. 5)
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach (original Tomato recording)
Roger Waters - Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here
Mark Alburger - Camino Real (Karl Coryat)

Whoops, that's 16...

(although I just went back and noted Steven actually listed 16, too!)"

... then later, also thought about adding George Crumb's Black Angels (original CRI recording) to the list...



Also later, did the two Deploration Passacaglia videos of the day: XIII. Chopin and



XIV. Verdi.

April 17 - Weekend Job Descriptions

Compose page 3 for Song of Solomon: V. Let My Beloved Come, update the 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com sites (the latter re syllabus of Perceiving the Arts -- dividing the four weeks into Early Music, Common Practice, 20th-Century, and 21st-Century / SF Symphony), and following Harriet out the door (eventually) to Chamber Arts for the fourth rehearsal of Job: A Masque, with at last our complete cast as

Nanette McGuinness (God / Bildad the Shuhite)
Heather Klein (Elihu / Servant I)
Kate Bautch (Job's Wife / Servant III)
Marilyn Pratt (Job)
Sarita Cannon (Eliphaz the Temanite / Servant II)
Crystal Philippi (Satan / Zophar the Namaathite / Servant IV)

Above photo and below Owen Lee party shot thanks to learning how to use the "stitch" mode in Photosmart Studio for the first times.



Breaking up is always hard, we know,



but we have to jump in the car towards



the Berkeley



Hills,



Caldecott



Tunnel,



the Round Top Highlands,



and



Mt.



Diablo



on 24 / 680 -- towards Owen Lee's



50th-birthday party in Concord, with Glenn Appell, Mark Steidel,



the celebrant (unfortunately the only pic taken turned out to be this newborn one), David Chavez, Jerry Kuderna, Brett Peppo, Rory Snyder, and Dick Kamprath.



Reverse course past the Walnut Creek



Ziggurats, again through the hills to



San Francisco Bay, over the



Bridge, rendezvous'ing with Harriet at



Goat Hall to check the mail (she does better at the post box). Davies Hall is next (run into Ken Bullock and company fore and aft while dropping off and picking up Harriet) for a performance by the



St. Louis Symphony of

Christopher Rouse - Rapture
Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 2
Jan Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
John Adams - Dr. Atomic Symphony

to be written up soon for Commuter Times and 21st-Century Music (21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, 21st-centurymusic.com, and in print),


and



thence



back to orchestrate page 7 of The Creation: I.

February 16 - Blazing

The rain is over and gone, at least temporarilly, and the temperature warms to 70 (seemingly the first time this year, defining summer, from a certain perspective), mid-day in Pleasant Hill, but first we have to get there, through Lagoon Valley to



Cordelia Junction, past



Long Barn, the Chinese Wall,



and



Eden,



beyond the



Benicia Bridge, in the realm of



Mt. Diablo, following



Route 24's Pleasant Hill Road Interchange, adjacent to



Rheem Hill, initially towards



St.



Mary's



Dante Hall (with a stray balloon).



It's the first Music Session for the Perceiving the Performing Arts course, with Amanda assisting re internet access, Jia ever-helpful, and Rebecca at a drama conference in Nevada. All apparently goes well (in introductory material up to notation), then to



Diablo Valley for G Modes (Major, Mixolydian, Dorian, and Minor), a double dictation / board harmony on Thomas of Celano's Dies Irae (keyboard-solfege for the week, larger intervals against an added drone) and the Orkney Islands Hymn to St. Magnus (harmony in major and minor thirds), plus the G Mix Latin Lyric Song of the Ass (Orientis Partibus, and its G Major Survival as Aye, Said the Donkey) and fine student compositions.



Lunch at China Garden, returning for evening Music



Literature, with music from Pope Gregory the Great (540-604) all the way to Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) -- the ethernet is down, so we proceed apace on iTunes -- popping in on



Owen's orchestra during break, and preparing for



next week.



Out afterwards with Owen and Doug to local



night spot then home for more Psalms -- respectively page 32 of Vespers: II. 109, composition, and 4 of Psalm 7, score preparation).