May 24 - Compositions Everywhere


Composition Final for the Diablo Valley College Spring 2016 Music Theoreticians, including fine works by Lindsey Vona,


Noelani Akana and Nate Hawke,


Brent Cihonski,


Donald Dominguez,


Nicole Werner,


Michaela Katar,


James Briner, and


Nick Advincula.  Thanks, folks!  A great class all semester!


Before


this,


a


moony,


fog-


dispersing


declination


southwest,


along


margins


of


sun


and


shade in the steely wind (74th day of summer, high again up 2 to 75);


and


after,


a


stimulating


return,


only


to


reverse 


course


again


for


the




last


session with the


History group, with their Exam,


reviewing Medieval through Modern -- again thank yous, and a notable ensemble!


Late home-coming to continue, over intriguing video,


That's How It Is On This Bitch Of An Earth, Op. 254 (May 16, 2016)
[Title: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) - Waiting for Godot (1953)
Source Material: David Attenborough (b. 1926) - Color Original-Broadcast Filmography (1963-2016)]

D. Life On Earth (1979, Edward Williams, 1921-2013)

I. Infinite Variety

Sound / Indentification  - Title (00:00) /  The South American Rainforest / Those Are Howler Monkeys (1:30)
Sound - Galapagos Music (3:30)
Number - A Thousand Million Years Ago (8:20)
Sound - Fossils (9:15)
Identification - Grand Canyon / This (10:00)
Number- Two Thousand Million Years Old (13:30)
Number- Three Thousand Million Years Old (16:00)
Sound - Young Planet (18:00)
Number - Twelve Hundred Million Years Ago (26:30)
Identification - Eggs / Sperm (28:30)
Style - With Which (32:10)
Identification - Which Is Sometimes Called (33:05)
Admiration - Awesome (33:20)
Identification - It's a Jelly-Like Creature (33:40)
Sound / Identification - Comb Jellies (34:26) / This / It's (35:00)
Sound / Sex - Medusa (36:10) / No Sex (37:00)
Identification / Sex - This (40:00)
Identification - These (42:00)
Sound - Coral (44:08)
Sound - Closing (46:00)