November 23 - Saving Time

Continue editing Psalm 41 (the next 10 pages) before vaulting over the Bencia Bridge to Diablo for dictation, solfege, and board harmony from Shelly Yen, Allison Lee, and Michael Sharp, finishing up the engaging student compositions of round four that have come in thus far.



Beyond this, to



Walnut Creek, picking up a 1/2 terrabyte external hard drive, for a second back-up and additional video storage, anticipating tomorrow's trip. Lunch and paper grading at La Fogata,



followed by embeds of Samuel Barber YouTube videos at markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com, then the evening class from Jester Hairston and Louis Armstrong (both b. 1901) to Muddy Waters and Benjamin Britten (ditto 1913).



Home to transfer documents, movies, music, and pictures to the new storage unite (which takes hours) and to respond to a plethora of positive comments from Owen Golden on YouTube (which takes minutes), somehow finishing up For My Brother For My Brother videos with



XIII. Sleepytime Burgers.

October 11 - Sunset, Sunset

Begin editing Psalm 32 -- a minimalist, rock-latin take on Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 2, orchestration inspired by Claude Debussy's on 3, which he called 1... got it? With this in mind, proceed to DVC for dictation / board-harmony / keyboard-solfege on Scott Joplin's The Entertainer, record



Psalm 31



in the lab (with Doug updating "permissions" on the laptop), and proceed to the Walnut Creek



Apple Store, where it seems like enough tests are run and software updates installed such that maybe -- just maybe -- the computer won't spontaneously shutdown further...



Return in the fading light to produce videos for



Deploration Passacaglias: III. Susato and



IV. Schutz, plus embed classical videos on the markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com site.