October 30 - Let the Suffering Begin Anew!

Finish the print version of the belated September 2010 21st-Century Music, at take to printer -- but before the latter, it's time for the first rehearsal (assisted for the first time by YouTube clips from the previous production) of the Job: A Masque revival (November 13, SF Community Music Center), with



Maria Mikheyenko - Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Servant IV
Marilyn Pratt - Job
Heather Klein - Elihu / Servant I
Harriet March Page - God / Bildad the Shuhite
Suzanna Mizell - Eliphaz the Temanite / Servant II
Kate Bautch - Job's Wife / Servant III

-- a talented team indeed!



Home with Harriet thereafter in the violent late-afternoon light,



dinner and a movie (Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution, 1957), then late-night shenanigans including work on the November and December issues of 21st-Century Music (embedding a nice Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 excerpt, among other endeavors), catching up with Brian Gibson on Facebook and Howling Chip on YouTube, producing a second edited page of Psalm 36, and the videos du noire as



Embedded Inventions: XV. Hemiola and



Cats, Dogs, and Divas: I. Introduction (Film)

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.

August 28 - Color Whirled

Begin videos for Spectral Preludes, Op. 38, with I. Yellow (C) and



II. Yellow-Orange (G), and do -- yes -- another edited page of Psalm 22c (20), plus some 21st-Century Music work.



Eventime, and head out with Harriet



past Mt. Diablo and



Orinda to



Berkeley's



Giorgi Gallery (just downhill from the Claremont Hotel) to take in the brilliant



JooWan Kim and combination Pierrot / jazz-trio ensemble in his



chamber hip-hop opera Integration. (report soon at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, 21st-centurymusic.com, and in print).

August 19 - On!

Begin videos for Mary Variations, Op. 28 (1985), with I. Pentatonic Mary and



II. Mary Raga Kalyam, bestow the first quiz upon the Theoreticians, then make for



Alameda and



Marin, for a first fall-semester 2010 session at Celia's (all A's on the quizzes -- always a good sign), checking the post box with several financial greetings, then



north to



Petaluma for a second and final walk on



Lakeville Road,



east



out



of



town



to



Casa Grande north, now with only this stretch from here to



Sonoma Mountain Road to finish up the walk from the Coast to the Sierra.



Returning via 116,



12 (through Sonoma



and



Napa



in



plenteous



traffic),



and



80,



there are the last two pages of Symphony No. 2 and another of Psalm 22c (11) to edit, and more parts to print out for Animal Farm.

August 12 - Diabolic Deeds

Back to Diablo Valley College, for the first



faculty meeting of the fall semester, led by newly-elected Department Chair



Bruce Cook. Linger and produce another Tritone-Orchestra Garbage-Band-reverb Soundboard-enhanced re-recording and video for Animal Farm, namely



XI. Ducks, before a



scenic



logistical



goose-(rather than duck-)chase



across



campus,



finally obtaining vital info from the Arts Division Office.



Upon return, am persuaded to go down to



Jack's for libations with



Rory Snyder, Owen Lee,



Bruce, and Mark Steidel.



Off to



Marin



next



to check the post box,



etc.,



and



make



the



way



north



to



Sonoma



and Petaluma to walk Lakeville Road east from D Street to the



In-N-Out Burger just before 101 north, via the old



Belden



Silk



Mill,



various



housing,



industry,



and



mallery in the



celestial



changeover. Home for the second Animal video



(XII. Swans), more edited pages of Symphony No. 2: III (through 18), Psalm 22c (6), and parts for Animal Farm: V. Sharks and VI. Frogs.