Tuesday, November 22, 2011

November 22 - Every Silver...


Finish the pdf's of Mary Variations, Op. 28, with XVI. Movie Mary, then move down 80


and


680


in reasonably fine weather to


Diablo Valley


College for the last day of content for the semester: a condensed verse of Sting's King of Pain for dictation and board harmony, with review for tomorrow's final quiz, plus more entrancing student compositional endeavors.


Thenceward


homebound,


with


evidently


more


errands


of the


season, composition of The Cop and the Anthem (page 56) and Psalm 81 (M2), and finishing a re-reading of


Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones (1970).  Also listen to a fair amount of Edgar Varese...

Hyperprism
Octandre
Ionisation
Poeme Electronique

Anton Webern...

Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
Symphony
Concerto for Nine Instruments
Piano Variations
Cantata No. 1

Alban Berg...

Piano Sonata
Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
Wozzeck
Violin Concerto

Joe "King" Oliver...

Dippermouth Blues
West End Blues

Heitor Villa Lobos...

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Max Steiner...

Casablanca

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton...

Grandpa's Spells
Blackbottom Stomp
Deadman Blues

and Cole Porter...

Kiss Me Kate