Wake up to more gray skies, and tempted to head south, but, upon checking the weather reports, doesn't look too auspicious in Southern California, either, for the next couple of days, so a strategy for averting Seasonally Affected Depression is activity: art, scholarship, and utilitarianism -- editing the rest of Diabolic Variations: XIII, finishing the composition of Psalm 45 (3 pages total, three cycles of i bVII, bVI, v in meters ranging from 8/8 to 34/8),
stepping
out
for
errands, doing the daily 21st-Century music work, and beginning to lay the groundwork for writing The New Grove Dictionary of American Music articles on
American Baroque
Cold Blue Music
Jim Fox
Philip Glass
Mona Lyn Reese
Belinda Reynolds
Alex Shapiro
Andrew Shapiro
Melinda Wagner
William Winant
Erling Wold
by calling / emailing all (at least the individuals who have not been contacted in the recent past), starting to set up interview times for several (live and phone varieties), making files for all the articles, and doing some basic website research (composer home pages, publishing houses, Wikipedia). Also do the Common Application recommendation form for Amanda Kim.
Pleased that Doug and Susan like the dronic A Walk Through California: Yolo (Bill and Kathy's Last Night) and that Lo left a nice comment re Deploration Passacaglias: Ravel, both posted on Facebook (the later on the Ravelians page). After a late meal with Harriet, make a video for
Diabolic Variations: VI.
