Page 14 of Psalm 47 composed, then out the door as the snow receeds from the Vaca Mountains,
down
the
I-80
corridor
through
the
Sulfur
Springs
Mountains,
over the Bridge,
and
up
into
the
East Bay Hills to attend service at the
First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Berkeley,
on a prominence in
Kensington with
glorious views of the Bay
and an
inclusive, stirring message within.
Intriguing music, including a duet of violin and nyckleharpa (a Swedish keyed viol, held at shoulder height under a cradled arm) and a
quartet of Monteverdians (soprano, tenor, harpsichord, and cello in music from L'Incoronazione di Poppea), with Sondheim's Into the Woods presented later in the afternoon, and who should wander in but Kim Anderman, who's in the show, as well as Meghan Dibble. Chat with them in the dressing room, with an update on Harriet, then check in with the office manager -- who turns out to be Lisa Harrington-Bailey, mother of John Bailey (Theory student, similarly appelated to San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Associate Director John Kendall Bailey), who appears soon after to make a cordial duo. And just as we are leaving -- there they are! Crystal and Christina, and it is wonderful to see them. Group hugs and an assurance of email correspondence for a rendezvous, and we shall hope for the best.
Return through
Vallejo,
over the Sulfur Springs Mountains, phoning Bette, and
cannot resist another brief walk on the newly-reopened McGary Road,
now from Foothill Canyon
Road
to the
Lone Eucalypti,
with views all around,
including
Sentinel Peak.
Make
the
rest
of
a
circuit
back,
picking up lunch for Harriet and moi at the local chicken emporium,
and
we spend the hours comparing notes on movies (amid cycles of her therapy), plus doing the 19th piano-vocal-into-orchestration page (106 orchestrated pages thus far) of New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday and the
video du soir (Salome Suite: I. Dance of the Seven Veils, Op. 178 [2009] -- somewhat of a femme de la nuit.... Oh yes, also do second draft of the William Winant article for Grove American.
