Thursday, October 6, 2011
October 6 - Mixed Blessings
Sky
ripped
with
clouds,
zipping
down
through
the
celestial
unsettlement
to
DVC
and
Quiz
8 for the Theoreticians, with musical examples drawn from Frederic Chopin, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Erik Satie, and Charles Ives.
With the weather still threatening to north and east,
decide
for
an early south
and
west
to
the
Peninsula,
initially
down
Half
Moon
Bay
Canyon
past
pumpkins,
then farther
southward along the Coast,
for a stroll from Verde /
Tunitas Creek /
Myne Roads,
past
vistas
of
Aratas
Pumpkin
Farm,
Tunitas
Cliffs and
Plateau,
and
Martin's
Beach
(complete
with
wildflowers,
pounding
surf,
and
barking
dogs)
to
Triple
D
Ranch.
Yes,
that
is
the
name.
A bit further south,
to check out the next walk's prospects over Tunitas Bridge
(near the same-nomenclatured Beach,
Canyon, and
Road),
then north towards the threatening clouds of
Half Moon Bay,
Montara,
the
cliffs
of
Devil's
Slide,
Pacifica, and
Daly City -- to the
City
and
Lick-Wilmerding for the first rehearsal of the
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's The Dark Serenade show, with music by
Loren
Jones,
Mark Alburger, David Graves,
Davide Verotta,
Lisa Scola Prosek, and Philip Freihofner. Transfer Allan Crossman's electric piano to his vehicle after practice, then make the jump northeast for late-evening composition of The Cop and the Anthem (14), beginning work on Psalm 76, plus the pdf of page 3 re Aerial Requiem.