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)...