September 14 - Front and Center

Read and finish with delight Joseph Franklin's intriguing Settling Scores: A Life in the Margins of American Music (2006) -- recalling taking in the author's impressive Relache ensemble way back when in the Philadelphia area on several occasions.  Great and intriguing stuff, and on to complete To Those Who Come After: Three Elegies, Op. 256: II: I Came to the Cities in a Time of Disorder (after Bertolt Brecht, 7 pages total, and 14 for the piece thus far), on the 184th day of summer, high up 9 to 84 (128 days 80+)...