August 6 - Is That All We Think About?

Pick up mailers,


stamps, current and back issue Journals at Copyworld, looping south under the Bay to



Menlo Park for



U.S. Geological topos of North Lake Tahoe.



Return through



gloomy San Francisco



and



sunny



Marin



to



check the post box and



power-up the tech over a



late lunch



(happy-hour free nachos with drink at Fernando's).



Further



north



to



Sonoma,



it's time



to



walk



South



Petaluma



Boulevard



and



D



Street,



over



the



drawbridge



and



river,



as part of the



cross-California



endeavor.



Circuitously



home to publication-prepare more Symphony No. 2: III (pages 7-8), begin editing the third section of Psalm 22, and do the day's Animal Farm videos:



VII. Turtles and



VIII. Snakes.

June 20 - Climbing

Leave for Lisa Scola Prosek's in what seems (with the late schedule of late) the middle of the night, but it's mid-morning, and by arrival, close to noon, for the annual San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra retreat with



Erling Wold,



Lisa, and



Martha Stoddard. There's time thereafter to sneak down to



Half Moon Bay's



Redondo Beach



(evidently a favorite)



to



video



Songs on Crane: V. The Heart (In the Desert)

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter - bitter," . . .
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."



Return


to


the final performance of Fresh Voices: Program B (a pleasure once again to hear Aldan Jenks's Letter from Linda, Robert Denham's Sutter Creek [enriched by new visuals, which the dedicated Wayne Wong had requested], David Garner's Medea Alone, and Jeff Myers's The Hunger Art), and finally home, lamentably laden with a tombstone set from a negligent party, alas. No matter. Directors Harriet, Meghan, and I soldier on, and upon return edit and post more



Waiting for Godot, including XXIX. His Hat! and incorporate the first movement of Magnificat into Vespers.

May 29 - Echoing Across the Canyons

Head down to Half Moon Bay's Redondo Beach to video Psalm 6: 1-5.



Before that, as Harriet heads out the door for rehearsals, compose pages 15-16 of Vespers: X. Psalm 147 - Lauda Jerusalem; and off on this suddenly warm/clear/glorious feels-like-first-day-of-summer to Berkeley rehearsal of



Job: A Masque, at Chamber Arts with Marty Stoddard, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Marilyn Pratt (Job), Heather Klein (Elihu), Kate Bautch (Job's Wife), Nanette McGuiness (God / Bildad the Shuhite), and



Sarita Cannon (Eliphaz the Temanite), in such scenes as "We Were Plowing" and



"Who Are You, Job?"



While Harriet rehearses Sutter Creek, head to the back room to video



The Twelve Fingers: II. Song.



After lunch with H at a Rockridge gormet burger joint (outdoors with non-run-of-the-mill classical background selections), make the jump south of San Francisco



via



Pacifica,



Devil's



Slide,



Gray Whale



Cove,



Montara and



Miramar Beaches



to



Redondo



Cliffs



for



video




of



Psalm



6:



1-5.



Following



this,



back



north -- calling Crystal to wish her a Happy Birthday (she and Christina are moving back to Marin within a week!) and to make arrangements to get together upon their return --



for another Job rehearsal, now with the ensemble, then home through Marin, to edit and post above videos on YouTube.