August 6 - Busying About
10th rehearsal of the Jostein Stahlheim / John Bilotta Rosetta's Stone, to be given as part of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires (8:15pm Fridays-Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27), now with our instrumentalists
Cass Panuska - Rosetta
Wayne Wong - Professor Al Hambre
Jill Wagoner - Cortex
Kassidy Grace Meyernick - Amigdala
Sarita Cannon - Thalamus
Alexis Lane-Jenson - Hippocampus
Jamie Samantha Lee - Cerebellum
Harriet March Page - Brain Stem / Producer-Director
Rachel Condry - Clarinet
Feona Lee Jones - Piano
Robin Reynolds - Cello
Mark Alburger - Music Director / Conductor
Fewer logistical challenges than anticipated, and everyone on course for a wonderful show!
There
and
back
again --
147th day of summer, high 88 (90 days 80+), 82 in Pleasant Hill --
composing The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXIII. 1941 - Los Angeles / Handsome August Hess / Albrecht Joseph and
LXIV. 1942 - Erich Maria Remarque / Alexander von Zemlinsky upon return...