With Jerry Levinson's 65th-Birthday Celebration -- as part of the 8th-Annual Student, Faculty, and Alumni Composers Concert -- looming,
touch
down at
Philadelphia International,
rendezvousing with Bette and George,
and proceeding, via a local soft pretzel
to
their
domicile
for
morning
relaxation.
Eventually,
and
round-
about,
US
1,
and
476,
Baltimore Pike,
leafy
Swarthmore /
Muhlenberg /
Amherst
Avenues,
visting
the
old
neighborhoods
on
North
and
South
Lehigh
Circles,
dropping
off
the
folks
at
Chambers Memorial Presbyterian Church,
and
heading
over
to
the
College
and
Lang
Music
Building,
looking
just
as
great
as
ever.
Anon over to Jerry and Nanine's briefly,
then
windingly
to
Dorothy and
Jim's for conversation and wine,
subsequently
back
to
the kirche and beyond to pick up
cheesesteaks and hoagies at Anna's, back to the ranch,
and
off
again to the
Wind Ensemble Concert,
featuring
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (with soloist / Music-Director / orchestrator Andrew Hauze),
a quick gamelan demonstration from Tom Whitman's group,
followed by Jerry's Bronze Music and the
Gustav Holst First Suite.
Thereafter, transfer Mark and Jerry Go to the CVS video to Deborah How,
returning late under construction and an impressive Supermoon --
chilly locally (51 Phila / Delaware County), missing the 235th day of summer, back home (75 -- 72, Oakland; 82, Los Angeles)....
