May 29 - Post-Its

Do final pdf for and post Seasons' Eves (Op. 14) on The International Music Score Library Project, begin composition of Psalm 58 (inspired by George Crumb's Makrokosmos, Volume 1, orchestrated after his Echoes of Time and the River), transfer compositions from PC to Mac via email up to Waiting for Godot (Op. 128), with a 21st clip added to video for Camino Real: Block 9.

After all this,

off with Harriet towards

San Francisco,

via the

Marin Headlands

and

Golden Gate

Bridge,

to the

Marina

(for coffee and scones)

and

Fort

Mason,

meeting

up with

Lisa and

Tom (ascending the freight elevator, because it happens to be going our way),

taking in the revival of

Erling Wold's

Queer, where

the composer-guitarist, Jab (trumpet-player for Henry Miller in Brooklyn, who has moved back to Chicago, but is on an extended tour, playing a variety of gigs in the West),

Trauma Flintstone,

Ken Berry

(Casanova in Camino Real, who remains happily resident at Bondi Beach, Australia), and

all

turn

in

amazing

performances,

under

the

able

eye

of director

Jim Cave.  No surprise, Erling's opera is every bit as fine as the ten-years-previously premiere -- in some ways even better, and a delightful time is had during the show, and after, by all (report soon in 21st-Century Music at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and eventually at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print).

May 28 - Knowingly to the Books

Big excitement is trip to the library, to resupply Harriet (who is off on Goat Hall Productions business much of the day) with the weekly videos -- including

Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811 / 2008),

Shadowlands (1985),

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004),

The Shiralee (1987),

Shock (1946),

Siddhartha (Herman Hesse, 1922 / 1972),

The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890 / 1930),

Slumdog Millionaire (2008), and

Soldier's Home (Ernest Hemingway, 1925 / 1977) -- on a day (when H obtains through the mail

Magnificent Obsession, 1954) consistent with the

weird weather of this month (rain with only brief intervals of sun, and temps in the 60's, in a recent trend  seemingly of warmer to colder, despite the lengthening days).

In other news, finish Psalm 57 (8-page variant on King David: IX), transfer compositions through The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Op. 116) from PC to Mac via email, create a pdf of Seasons' Eves (Op. 14): III. Autumn (Halloween), and incorporate a 20th clip for the Camino Real: Block 9 video.

May 27 - Fires on the Mountains

Up at 5:45am and

out the door,

through

through

a

blazing

mix

of

sun

and

shadow,

early enough to take care of errands,

for the weekly rendezvous with Crystal and Stanley.

Another

wonderful

time, with birthday gifts to bestow, before making the way to DVC and

last-minute make-up work

(exams,

quizzes,

compositions)

for the

Music Theoreticians and Historians

(with a break

to the bookstore

in-

between).

It's graduation day,

and wind up making an

impromptu visit to

Owen and the

Orchestra

on the

playing field during the ceremony, re essential department logistics.

Home, mid-evening, to compose page 7 of Psalm 57 (variant on King David: IX), transferring On the Road (Op. 112) from PC to Mac via email, doing a pdf of Seasons' Eves (Op. 14): II. Summer (Fireworks), and incorporating a 19th clip for the Camino Real: Block 9 video.

Up to an even 500 MB (48.87%) of the 1024 -- still comfortably with 8 days to spare re budgeted usage.