January 19 - In the Dark


Late night run to UC Davis Library for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 37: Fired Up! (8pm, Saturday, January 30, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA), specifically --


Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)        Demeter, Op. 37 (1917)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)    The Human Comedy, Op. 37 (1934)   
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)            Die Natali, Op. 37 (1960)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)        Vijag, Op. 37 (1946)
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)        Maverick Pieces for Piano, Op. 37 (1976)
Steve Reich (b. 1936)                City Life (1995)


-- returning late on the warmest day of the year -- 64 -- the 19th of spring, with the most rain of season since July 1: 1.84 inches, for a total of 11.35 to date.  Previous to this, edit Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1907 - New York, Op. 232, No. 29 (13 pages total), and score-study pages 9 Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat: I. Soldier's March and the opening tutti Sergei Prokofiev's Fiery Angel, Op. 37 (finishing this latter)...