November 1 - All Sense Day

After the requisite page (4) of Psalm 36 and 21st-Century Music work -- off to Diablo Valley College for a dictation and board harmony on Paul McCartney's Yesterday, followed by lunch and a coffee run to the bookstore pour Doug et moi. Finish the



Psalm 36 "Sin Speaks" edits (through page 7, and, yes, too much Alban Berg Wozzeck in it) and record same, but suspect that the new Encore is compromising the midi files (definitely over-riding the instrument choices, which have to be re-assigned in the lab), so further dress up the audio at home -- ultimately discover that the new program's midi will not import into GarageBand, but find a work-around by opening the newer in the older program, then saving as the old midi.



Out in the lowering light, and over to



Site for Sore Eyes for an eye test (first in c. 15 years) -- when the word "glaucoma" is posited, it's evidently time to feel faint, but there's simply a mild suspicion and recommend, to be followed up in the fulness of time. With new glasses to be ready by mid-tomorrow (the old met with an unfortunate bend yesterday, so it's definitely appropriate for an update), the wander northeast leads to chicken cacciatore with Harriet, and two more Cats, Dogs, and Divas studio-recording videos as



IV. Greatgrandma Hattie and



V. In the House of My Father, plus embed early 20th-Century music videos on the Music History blog (through Edgar Varese and King Oliver).

October 31 - Hallowed Afternoon

Not many trick-or-treaters in our neighorhood (indeed, none, typically), but a third edited page of Psalm 36 and 21st-Century Music work before heading out in the late cloud-tossed afternoon towards Napa and


Sonoma for a



connective walk between



the heights



below



Charlie Brown Cutting Horses and the



Roberts Road final bend straightaway, part of a series of walks from the California Coast to the Nevada border.



From palmic



compounds,



the way



is



ever



down past



various



life



(wild



and



other) to



Crane



Creek



Regional



Park



and



the intelligent cows and general



meanderings



of



the



Santa



Rosa



Plain,



then



a



blast



back



home



Harriet-wize



through



the



bewitching



evening for two more Cats, Dogs, and Divas studio-recording videos:



II. Long Time and



III. Between Depression.

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)