Edit Michael McDonagh's perceptive review of the Philip Glass solo recital (April 30) for the July 2011 issue of 21st-Century Music.
Off under the
sun-pierced clouds to
Diablo Valley College,
for four presentations from the Music Theoreticians (including a wild set of Joe Satriani chord changes -- the default number of chord members being 4 and 5... often 7th chords with add 4... i.e. 13), followed by two tutorials,
touching base with Owen while he's looking at work beyond figured bass (re the successful concert over the weekend), coffee with Doug, and composition of page 2 for Psalm 56 (reformatting King David: XIII from Sibelius to Encore in the process).
Homeward to transfer Le Petite Prince (i.e. The Little Prince) from PC to Mac, and continue writing the press release for the upcoming San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Lost Things Found show.
Also back-and-fourth with Western Digital (the maker of the My Passport external hard drives) on e-mail a few times -- and from trial-and-error discover that, by switching the cords on the 320 and 500 disks, they both work (at least for now). Doesn't seem to make sense, but there it is...
Out again, still raining, to San Francisco for Lisa Scola Prosek's monthly salon,
with three-handed (!) piano music by Philip Freihofner (one arm each, and up-close-and-personal on the bench, for Lisa, moi, and Phil -- respectively from low to high), videos of Camino Real: Blocks 7 and 8, plus new selections by
Loren Jones
and
Lisa -- all delightful and well-received. Lisa comments that the fast cinematic cuts are perhaps the best way to listen to and see the opera.
SF Composers Chamber Orchestra board meeting follows, then home impossibly for another Block 9 clip (10) and beginning pdf of Portraits of Three [Flute] Players (Op. 11).
And currently at 492 MB (48.09%) of the 1024 MB (four days to spare re megabyte usage)...
