Prepare for publication the first 8 pages of Symphony No. 2 ("Tamalpais"): II DOUBLE FUGUE and do a boodle of work in the adjunct library -- all the back issues of 21st-Century Music now in file boxes, 8 years of Diablo Valley College papers relocated, stacks of books and music back on shelves (rather than piled here and there). Also transfer over Opus 10-12 (Nocturnes for Insomniacs, Portraits of Three [Flute] Players, Four Processions) from the old computer to new via email (only way that's possible at the moment, and a surprisingly laborious process), then zoom out the door in the twilight to do a couple of videos for Ecclesiastes -- V-VI. There Is Evil and
VII. Day of Death, returning to edit and post. Upload Antigone: XVI. Antigone / You, Too to Facebook and receive some positive feedback from earlier posts -- always good to hear from such folks as Pamela Walker Agnew, Susan Hauslein Ware, and William Loney.
Mark Alburger (b. 1957, Upper Darby, PA) is an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He is Music Director of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music (P.O. Box 2842 San Anselmo, CA 94960) and New Music, Music Critic for Commuter Times, and Instructor in Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson, Joan Panetti, and James Freeman at Swarthmore College (B.A.); Jules Langert and Ted Blair at Dominican University (M.A.); Roland Jackson at Claremont University (Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger has composed 181 major works over the past 35 years, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue is being issued on discs from New Music ($15 / P.O. Box 2842, San Anselmo, CA 707-474-7273).
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