August 25 - Return
The second sitzprobe, as review, for Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232, in preparation for our concluding weekend re Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires (8:15pm, Friday-Saturday, August 26-27,
Lesher Center for the Arts,
Walnut Creek, CA).
Before this Overtones
and
Quiz 2 for the
Theoreticians,
followed by an intriguing demonstration of an electronic woodwind
and
other divertissements.
166th
day
of
summer,
high down
another point to 90
(continuing the average descent of a degree-per-day since August 16's 99 --
110 / 73 days 80 / 90 +...
Pleasant Hill, 84
Pinole, 67
Walnut Creek, 82...
returning late to begin The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXXXV. 1963 - Igor Stravinsky / Walter Gropius / Oskar Kokoschka (Photo IX), an orchestration of Alma Mahler's Four Songs: IV, informed by Igor Stravinsky's Abraham and Isaac, 1963)...