9th rehearsal of ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL, Op. 232 (to be presented as part of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires -- 8:15pm, Fridays / Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA), including
I. 1879 - ANNA SOFIE BERGEN (Alma's Mother)
VIII. 1886 - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lover)
X. 1888 - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Photo II - Five Songs: II)
XIII. 1891 - GEZA ZICHY (Mahler's Rival)
XIX. 1897 - GUSTAV KLIMT (Alma's Second Kiss)
XXII. 1900 - ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Alma's Second Teacher / First Lover)
XXVII. 1905 - FELIX MUHR / GUSTAV MAHLER (In the Theatre)
XXXIV. 1912 - PAUL KAMMERER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lovers)
XL. 1918 - HULDA RESERL / HERMINE MOOS / MARTIN WERFEL
(Kokoschka's Doll / Alma's Son)
XLI. 1919 - THE PUPPET (Alma's Image)
LI. 1929 - FRANZ WERFEL / MANON GROPIUS (Alma's Third Husband)
Second complete run of the opera in a rehearsal -- first half now given approximately 1 hour and the second 2, for extra attention
(on the 141st day of summer,
high down 7 to 95 --
first below 100 in 8 days...
July 22's 96, and "lowest" since 21's 93!...
84 days 80+; 51, 90-or-better... Pleasant Hill, 82) --
celebrating thereafter again at the local Tahoe Joe's...
