Sunday, August 21, 2011
August 21 - Connecting the Lines
Time for the weekly Sierra walk -- after typical 21st-Century Music work, doing the Harriet corrections for the John Adams article, putting the main Oxford / Grove contract in the mail +
Pdf of Duo Sonata No. 1 ("Hyphenated"): I. Promenade-Blues
10th page composed for Psalm 69
90th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
5th video edited of Noe Valley Henry Miller performance
100 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3
-- up past Auburn,
Gold Run,
Bear River
Valley,
Emigrant and
Yuba
Gaps,
the
latter's
Pass,
Cisco Butte,
Castle
Ridge;
then down
Donner
Grade,
ascending gradually again past Little Chief
Cliffs, to fill in the gap between
Dollar
Hill and
Carnelian
Bay on
the Northwest
shore of
Lake Tahoe,
getting close
to finishing
this series of
connected hikes from the California coast to the Nevada border.
Return in darkness, re-listening to John Adams's Nixon in China and The Death of Kinghoffer both directions, and finishing re-reading Keith Abbott's poignant memoir of
Richard Brautigan sometime after arrival home.