Monday, February 7, 2011

February 7 - Active Interlude


Update 21st-Century Music, begin composing Psalm 47 "Plaudite" ("Clap your Hands") in framework of Giovanni Gabrieli's spin on a related text, informed by the rhythms of Steve Reich's Clapping Music.  Keyboard-solfege for the Theoreticians is Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: IV Ode to Joy, which is followed by introduction of D Dorian and Minor, and E Phrygian Modes.


Off to the hospital thereafter to visit Harriet, but, as our appointment is for mid-afternoon, there's time to explore


Crockett Hills Regional Park -- which has only been upgraded from closed land-bank status for the past couple of years (and OK, the exploration is definitely overdue) -- taking the unassumingly named


Edwards


Creek


Trail,


which actually vaults up almost back to Cummings Skyway.


Take a video of the greenway enroute that will probably be used for Poems on Crane: The Wayfarer.


Upon hitting


the 360-degree heights


adjacent to the


upper Boulevard


near the top, the first car to pass lingers, a window is rolled down for a calling out of "Mark!"  It's good old former student Spencer, who happens to live nearby and is just serendipidously driving by.  Do I want a ride?


As the time is now pressing, sure, and in no time we are back to point of origin at the trailhead, again in the car (greeting a friendly couple who we've encountered earlier),


and


on


through


Vallejo


to


the


medical


center,


It's


a bustling place today, now that the weekend is over, with challenging parking and good help that is unfortunately stretched a bit thin.


To the counterpoint an episode of All in the Family, Harriet is continuing to improve (under the care of an able staff, although there are challenges re therapy equipment, etc), and the word is that she can be released tomorrow.


Great news!


Heading


homeward,


it turns out to be a two-walk day,


with another short stroll along McGary Road,


now from Eucalyptus Bend


to


South Lynch Canyon Road


nigh


unto


the


municipal


border.


In


a


couple


of


hours


at


the residence, do the next piano-page-into-orchestration (6) for New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday (resulting in pages up to and including nine of II. Big),


then


bounce


back the city for


Lisa Scola Prosek's


Salon (with music of John Bilotta, Loren Jones, Martha Stoddard, and the hostess -- her Golden Gate Bridge settings -- plus the videos for Diabolic Variations: XXIII [Belly Dance] through XXVIII [Candlelight Procession]).


San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra


Board Meeting follows down the street at Erling's with a presentation from


John McGrew --perhaps our largest-attended meeting ever at 10


(make that 11 with Phil's appearance),


then home for the next Pied Piper Suite video



(IV. Pavane - Once More).