June 30 - Stepping Out

Finish editing and posting on YouTube The Pied Piper of Hamelin from VIII. You Should Have Heard and XII. Once More (above) through



XIII. The Wonderful Music and XV. In Transylvania, all via a slightly different process of uploading in HandBrake and then trimming with Wondershare. Call Harriet and the SFCCO brass; John Browning calls to assure that all is in place re the quick Southern California visit this weekend; name and put away numerous files; meld the ninth movement of Magnificat into Vespers; do a bike-and-pool circuit.



Also find Maria Mikheynko's posting of the first scene of Mice Suites (Mice and Men: Act I, Finale), so incorporate that into the DrMarkAlburger channel, too, along with all of John Bilotta's Quantum Mechanic.

June 29 - A Guilder for One's Thoughts

Turned out to be 103 yesterday, only in the 90's today, but in either case, a pleasure to be taking care of this and that, including editing and posting on Youtube selections II. (including IV-V. Trio - For a Guilder / Come In above, also on Facebook) through



VII. Into the Street -- which Bianca Showalter particularly likes (as well she should, as she sounds so great in the excerpts). Wondershare continues to work nicely (save or a puzzling speed increase re VIII. and beyond); it additionally yields a product that looks better on blogs -- as standard, rather than wide-screen images. Also do more filing, 21st-Century Music work, bring Magnificat: VIII. into the Vespers, make a bike/pool run, and have pleasant phone conversations with Harriet, Tom Heasley, John Browning (looks like it'll be south for July 4), and the woodwinds of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (yes, it's already time to think about the September show).



Finally start using, what with all the video to be stored, the WD Passport external hard drive -- easy to get up and running, just plug and play, as they say -- with a clever usb cable that, like the iPod/iPhone, provides its own power. Continuing the notion that any sufficiently sophisticated technology seems like magic, this baby has seemingly almost twice the storage capacity of the old (all of four years) Lacie model, and is approximately 8 times smaller -- so compact, in fact, that it can be fit into a pocket and carted around, for semi-peace of mind.

June 28 - Handbrake Down

Awake to distant strains of Sesame Street, then more work on 21st-Century Music, seventh movement of Magnificat (Fecit Potentiam) incorporated into Vespers, another stack of files stowed away (with file boxes temporarilly taking over the house), and a bike blitz to the pool (Harriet checking in enroute).

Experiment with video editing and posting in the free version of Wondershare. As it displays a "watermark" (their trademark in big white letters, top left) when using it gratis, there's nothing to do but use their "white black" effect (besides, SF Community Music Center is hardly a black box) when dealing with Sex and Delilah: I. Death, et al, and, at times, the visuals looks pretty amazing, anyway. The above file is tempo and me-voiced challenged, but there it is.

Then take the plunge and buy the real version, using it to refine above and do the first two items of



The Pied Piper of Hamelin, beginning with the Overture "Rats!".