May 2 - Another Busy Day

All hours home with Harriet, at play and work, the latter including page 6 Creation: III orchestrated, 4 of Vespers: VII. Duo Seraphim (Part II) composed, and printing out most of the parts for Job.

May 1 - Celestial Positionings

Begin the staging of Job: A Masque, for San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices programs in June, with Nanette McGuiness (God / Bildad the Shuhite), Heather Kline (Elihu / Messenger I), Kate Bautch (Job's Wife / Messenger III), Marilyn Pratt (Job), Sarita Cannon (Eliphaz the Temanite / Messenger II), and Crystal Philippi (Satan / Messenger IV / Zophar the Naamathite) -- including



"Have you seen",



"We were plowing",



"And they killed off everyone",



"Where have you been",



"No one's like him",



"Take away his health", and



"He'll curse your face".



Earlier, it was page 5 Creation: III orchestrated, 3 of Vespers: VII. Duo Seraphim (Part II) composed, and parts for Job: XI. done, before heading past Mt. Diablo in the glorious mid-day sunny cloudless warmth.


After, head with Harriet to



Goat Hall, checking the mail (somewhat worthwhile), then down the



increasingly incredibly bitterly cold, foggy coast of


Pacifica /



Linda Mar and



Devil's Slide, to



Half Moon Bay, walking from



Wavecrest to a pickup on



Poplar, via



windswept



plateau



pines


and



cypresses,



overlooked by the



Johnston



House


and encroaching



development.




A bit west and



north past the



Cypress Inn and



Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society to



dine in



Miramar,



then



farther north in the restive, setting sun.

[N.B. all the pictures of San Mateo county (Devil's Slide, Half Moon Bay, Pacifica) in this blog entry are inexplicably prefixed as "ContraCosta." Oh well...]

April 30 - Schumann, Zemlinsky, and Company

It's St. Mary's at the SF Symphony, taking in



Robert's No. 4 and



Alexander's Lyric, but it takes a long time to get there, initially via page 4 orchestration of Creation: III, second sheet composed for Vespers: VII. Duo Seraphim (Part II), and parts for Job: X. Somewhere in there is a



trip to



insurance spot



to switch our coverage, before



blasting



out



over




the



Sulfur


Springs



Mountains



to



the gauntlets



of




Alameda and



Bay



Bridge,



arriving



at



Davies



for



capital



aerial



views,



a



multitude



of



reunions,



and



farewells. The concert? Oh, yes -- certainly one or more reports, eventually in 21st-Century Music (21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, 21st-centurymusic.com, and in print).