January 21 - Towers of Learning
Off to UC Berkeley for the monthly Opus Project research, specifically re 37: Fired Up! (8pm, Saturday, January 30, 2016, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) and...
Fartein Valen (1887-1952) Violin Concerto, Op. 37 (1940)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) The Flaming Angel, Op. 37 (1923)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Dream Sequence (Images II) (1976)
Before
this,
the
scenic
drive
and
stroll down;
after,
over
and
through
the
East
Bay
Hills,
to DVC for a second -tech-run-through, etc., for the spring semester + a faculty get-together,
and a run to Fry's to replace challenged minor equipment (missing Radio Shack a bit, but meeting an Iraqi music enthusiast).
Eventually homeward to edit Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1909 - Rodin / Toscanini, Op. 232, No. 31 (22 pages total) and score-study page 11 Igor Stravinsky Histoire du Soldat: I. Soldier's March, on the 21st day of spring, high up a tick to 60...