May 25 - Many Fuzzy Returns

Compose page 8 of Vespers: X. Psalm 147 - Lauda Jerusalem and finish The Creation: IV. orchestration (25 pages total), while Harriet heads out on a job. Following anon, it's time to Music-Lit-paper-grade again at Elephant Bar (all A's and B's) and



meet the gang for its final session, now from Johns Corigliano and Lennon to Mark Alburger, Tan Dun, Erling Wold, Hal Hartley, Kurt Cobain, Steven Clark, Thom, Yorke, Ben Gibbard, and Ryan Ross.

May 24 - Tabulae Rasae

Bit blank in a very early departure -- staring off into the English Hills, Vaca Mountains,



Mt. Diablo, and



Acalanes Ridge -- on the way to



St. Mary's,



first



at



the



Library


for a couple of hours to double-check reviews and exams,



and then a



final faculty meeting with Jia and Rebecca re Perceiving the Arts grades. Again, an array, with, unfortunately, a number lower than would have been the case in an independent scenario.



Next to the breakfast palace quickly, for a two-buck entree (with coffee a penny less competitive at $1.99, thereby defacto doubling) to score Diablo Valley College Theory quizzes before another lab session, recording the first 11 pages of



Vespers: IX. Audi Coelum (Part II), then returning in the light of



Stonewind,



Wooded Top,



Twin Sisters, the Vacas,



Fairfield Pyramids, Poverty Hills, and South and



North Lagoon Mountains to finish Audi (Part II) (19 pages total), begin X. Psalm 147 - Lauda Jerusalem (through page 7), and orchestrate the next sheet (20) of Creation: IV.

May 23 - Llions, Lliars, and Llairs

Orchestrate page 18 of The Creation: IV and compose 12 of Vespers: IX. Audi Coelum (Part II), as the day finally warms up just marginally enough to merit another walk in a series from the California Coast to the Nevada border (unless it's the other way around), now again to


Sonoma



via



Marin's



Mt. Burdell,



Atherton Hills,



the environs of



Olompali



State



Park,



to the frontier at



San Antonio



Valley.



The stroLL on Sonoma Mountain Road, now south of



Bennett VaLLey at



Batesole, lleads past



llamas,



llanos,



llonesome



llands, and



lla lluna



in the llingering llight. Another page (19) of Creation: IV. orchestrated llate.

May 22 - Together

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.