It's
Erling Wold and Lynne Rutter's wedding at
Slavonia Hall in
San Francisco --
a beautiful, independent, and original ceremony, with music of the composer-groom performed by an excellent duo of soprano and clarinetist
Rachel Condry. The sumptuous spread includes a
self-portrait bar and the congeniality of
John Duykers (renowned tenor of Nixon in China, Wozzeck, Mordake, Sub Pontio Pilato), Melissa Weaver (amazing director of Serial Murdress),
Paul Dresher (of Ensemble / Electro-Accoustic Band fame),
Jim Cave (director par excellence of Erling and Lisa Scola Prosek pieces), and Harriet March Page (of San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions renown).
Departing
in
the
rosy
radiance, we reflect on a rambunctius routine that included
orchestrating page 17 of The Creation: IV and composing 11 of Vespers: IX. Audi Coelum (Part II), a
freak
storm in
Lagoon Valley,
ominous
nimbocumulus
and
paradoxical
balm,
a rendezvous with
Harriet at
Chamber
Arts
after a John Bilotta Trifles (libretto by John McGrew) rehearsal,
and a leap over the Bay Bridge to
Potrero Hill and
the Goat Hall mailbox and office before
cutting to the ceremony.
