April 8 - Tidings

Off to Fairfield's impressive

Our Lady of Carmel for

Kim Andre Arneson's  

Magnificat --

considerably gentler than those of J.S. Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, Alan Hovhaness, and Mark Alburger --

with Jill Wagoner as the magnificent soloist. 

Before this, piano-vocal and

visual libretto re Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232: XLVIII. 1926 - Rupert Joseph / Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Kammerer (Alma's Inspiration), and composition of  

Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251: XXVIII. Benjamnin Britten (1913-1976) - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (1946) and 

Eight Waltzes, Op. 252, from Alma...VIII.  High down 4 to 75 on the 38th day of summer, with a bit of precip in the mix: .04, for a total of 19.63 since the rainfall year began (July 1).

April 7 - Reproductive Joys

Cybercopy begins reproducing the piano-vocal-score-in-progress for Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232,

in preparation for meeting with singers.

Before this,

Jester Hairston's Elijah Rock for the Diablo Valley College Music Theoreticians,

followed by Quiz 10,

with examples drawn from George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Sergei Prokofiev, and Anton Webern.

The

day

starts

with

another

viewful

commute,

and

continues

in

reverse,

to

point of origin,

continuing the work on AMSMGW PV and

visual libretto, with XLVII. 1925 - Alban Berg / Hanna Fuchs-Robettin (Alma's Courier Service),

plus composing Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251:XXXVII. Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) - Study No. 3 ("Boogie-Woogie Suite") (1949) and 

Eight Waltzes, Op. 252, from Alma…: VII, on the 37th day of summer, high plummeting down 11 to 79...

April 6 - Mountaintops

Supply and

library encounters,

piano-vocal and

visual libretto to  

Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232: XLVI. 1924 - Arnold Schoenberg / Anton Webern / Alban Berg / Ernst Krenek / Dmitri Shostakovich (Mahler's 10th),

plus composition of Variations on the Romanesca, Op. 251: XXXVI. John Cage (1912-1992) - Suite for Toy Piano (1948) with Variations V (1965) and  

Eight Waltzes, Op. 252, from Alma...: VI,

over dangerous video,

before

heading

down

southwestward --

via

the

swift

circuit of Solano,

Contra

Costa,

and

Alameda --

to another

San Francisco Composer's Chamber Orchestra Boad meeting,

planning for Languorous Liaisons (8pm, May 21, 2016, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell, SF, CA),

returning late on by far the warmest day of the year thus far: 90 (36th of summer)...