November 13 - Job Revival

Job: A Masque is revived, with Harriet March Page (God / Bildad the Shuhite),



Heather Klein (Elihu / Servant I),



Marilyn Pratt (Job), Kate Bautch (Job's Wife / Servant III),



Suzanna Mizell (Eliphaz the Temanite / Servant II), and Maria Mikheyenko (Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Servant IV), on John Bilotta's Opera and Song program, also featuring
his



Yeats Songs and



Trifles, plus



Ed Knight's Life Is Fine and



Sylvia Rickard's Three Cabaret Songs, at



Community Music Center on


Capp



Street



in



San Francisco, and all receive fine performances.



Before this, a second page of Psalm 39b edited, and the jump over the



Bay Bridge to



Goat Hall to check the mail. After, do the video for



Cats, Dogs, and Divas: XXIII. Brunnhilde.

November 12 - Whoo Hoo!

Begin editing Psalm 39b and receive stunning news on the email from Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Editor of The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, who is trying to track down the hard-working Phillip George, offers a commission to update the Philip Glass article for their Second Edition (somehow Edward Strickland is unavailable), and invites me to write new articles on subjects drawn from their "need-of-coverage" list. I suggest an array of 10, including one on Erling, and all are accepted. In our back-and-forth, Charles relates than a writer has been commissioned to do an article on me -- extremely pleasing news, indeed. Additionally, Erling plans to start a Wikipedia listing... also great to learn.



Flying high with Harriet, it's time to head to Lick-Wilmerding for the Job: A Masque revival dress-rehearsal will take place,



arriving as John Bilotta's Trifles is finishing up (only a sitzprobe, in their case -- cannot imagine)!



We move and sing through our paces with Harriet March Page (God), Heather Klein (Elihu), Kate Bautch (Job's Wife), Marilyn Pratt (Job), Suzanna Mizell (Eliphaz the Temanite), and Maria Mikheyenko (Satan) -- through Scenes such as



VI. Man Is


Born to



Suffer



(as the sparks fly upward into air),



VII. Empty



Words,



VIII. Is There Someone, and



X. Who Are You



Job. Home late but still a studio-movie to do for




Cats, Dogs, and Divas: XXII. You Got That Right.

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 6 - Diablos All

Psalm 31 page 3 edited, then pencil in the trip to DVC for Charles Ives's Variations on America Spanish variant for dictation / board harmony / keyboard-solfege. Blitz round-trip again for errant instructional material and R&B / 50's rock video embedding on the music history blog, rendezvous'ing at Monty Bairos's palatial office to go over the logistics for the changing-of-the-guard in the Wednesday evening class. Set up in adjacent classroom (with welcome perspective from Mark Steidel), as transition time in the assigned spot seems overly tight (Bruce Cooke holding a class there mere minutes before the appointed hour). The clock strikes whatever, Monty gives his quiz, then group and I head down hall for new venue, with music from



Joe Turner to Chuck Berry, with a guess-what next week (N.B. 8913 for Waters).... Seems like it all works, and time will tell -- for now, head back to finish up editing the Job: A Masque videos with



X. "Who Are You" and



XI. "Lord Blessed the Last Part"

October 4 - Fresh Chances

Atmospheric conditions within the Music Building require a mise-en-scene en plein air, so we do the Frederic Chopin (how appropriate) E Minor Prelude dictation in the brisk al fresco, changing cultures as we go, and sing and "mind's eye" our way through classwork including 7th chords, the C chromatic and F natural and harmonic minor scales -- and it seems like a



good time is had by all.



Before this, begin editing Psalm 31 -- setting Wagnerian



fire to Josquin des Pres's In Te Domine Sparavi (text said to have been Savaranola's favorite, recalling Robert Ashley's lines about Giordano Bruno: "I think they burned him... He was too... positive.") -- and



appropriately proceeding through



similar (almost Mt. Sinai-esian) conditions to



Diablo. After, record both parts of Psalm



30 in the lab



then return over the

Benicia



Bridge



beyond



the



Sulfur Springs for



supplies



in the



sunset, more Job: A Masque video editing



(I. "What You Been Doing?" and



IV. "Curse God and Die"), and additional embedding of Baroque videos for tomorrow evening's class.