October 20 - Stand Up


Quiz 10 (examples drawn from Anton Webern, Sergei Prokofiev, George Gershwin, and Kurt Weill) for the Theoreticians --


there and


amazingly back, composition page 6

The Decameron: Sixth Day, Op. 257
     Novel III: Monna Nonna de' Pulci silences the Bishop of Florence

Jonah, Op. 258
     I. Fish Story

219th day of summer, high 84 (151 80+) -- same in Pinole / Martinez, 83 in Pleasant Hill --



discovering The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements (2014) late -- a fascinating series from the discovery of oxygen


(Joseph Priestly;


Antoine [and Marie-Anne Paulze] Lavoisier -- the latter guillotined about halfway through [1794] the tumulteous years of the French Revolution, 1789-1799) to the discovery of electrons, protons, neutrons... and explosively beyond...