Up in the hours before dawn putting most of the old May 2011 back-issue of 21st-Century Music in published form, then out the door with the not-so-twin orbs coming and going,
down the freeway in
flame
and
fog
to
rendezvous
in
the
latter
with
Crystal and
Stanley,
making our way to Plateau
Hill
and
back, then the post box for financial greetings,
over the Bay and
back into the light,
for the last week of content with the Diablo Valley College Theoreticians. Today, it's back-to-back Philip Glass excerpts (from Satyagraha and Akhnaten (the former with all contrary motion, the latter with all common tones) for dictation (just time for the bass lines) and board harmony, introducing the final keyboard-solfege (a two-bar chorus passage from Sting's Synchronicity: King of Pain) and five seventh-chords (major, dominant, minor, half-diminished, and fully diminished in three keys (G, C, and F). Afterwards,
homeward
up
the
680
and
80
corridors
under
billows
via
errands
to
catch
up on pdf'ing (Mary Variations: XV). and composition (The Cop and the Anthem, page 55, and beginning Psalm 81),
then to the City for San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra board meeting, discussing re-introduction of trombone and tuba to our numbers, plus other gripping matters. Linger with Erling and
return late. Meanwhile, have been listening to a lot of Igor Stravinsky recently, including
The Firebird
Petrushka
The Rite of Spring
Song of the Nightingale
Renard
Histoire du Soldat
Ragtime for 11 Instruments
Pulcinella
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Les Noces
Concerto for Piano and Winds
Symphony Of Psalms
Violin Concerto
Three Sacred Choruses
Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Symphony jn C
Circus Polka
Babel
Ebony Concerto
Symphony in Three Movements
Mass
The Rake's Progress
Greeting Prelude
Agon
Tres Sacrae Cantiones (Carlo Gesualdo)
Threni
The Dove Descending
The Flood
Eight Instrumental Miniatures
Introitus in Memoriam T.S. Eliot
Requiem Canticles
The Owl and the Pussycat
