Update 21st-Century Music, begin composing Psalm 47 "Plaudite" ("Clap your Hands") in framework of Giovanni Gabrieli's spin on a related text, informed by the rhythms of Steve Reich's Clapping Music. Keyboard-solfege for the Theoreticians is Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: IV Ode to Joy, which is followed by introduction of D Dorian and Minor, and E Phrygian Modes.
Off to the hospital thereafter to visit Harriet, but, as our appointment is for mid-afternoon, there's time to explore
Crockett Hills Regional Park -- which has only been upgraded from closed land-bank status for the past couple of years (and OK, the exploration is definitely overdue) -- taking the unassumingly named
Edwards
Creek
Trail,
which actually vaults up almost back to Cummings Skyway.
Take a video of the greenway enroute that will probably be used for Poems on Crane: The Wayfarer.
Upon hitting
the 360-degree heights
adjacent to the
upper Boulevard
near the top, the first car to pass lingers, a window is rolled down for a calling out of "Mark!" It's good old former student Spencer, who happens to live nearby and is just serendipidously driving by. Do I want a ride?
As the time is now pressing, sure, and in no time we are back to point of origin at the trailhead, again in the car (greeting a friendly couple who we've encountered earlier),
and
on
through
Vallejo
to
the
medical
center,
It's
a bustling place today, now that the weekend is over, with challenging parking and good help that is unfortunately stretched a bit thin.
To the counterpoint an episode of All in the Family, Harriet is continuing to improve (under the care of an able staff, although there are challenges re therapy equipment, etc), and the word is that she can be released tomorrow.
Great news!
Heading
homeward,
it turns out to be a two-walk day,
with another short stroll along McGary Road,
now from Eucalyptus Bend
to
South Lynch Canyon Road
nigh
unto
the
municipal
border.
In
a
couple
of
hours
at
the residence, do the next piano-page-into-orchestration (6) for New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday (resulting in pages up to and including nine of II. Big),
then
bounce
back the city for
Lisa Scola Prosek's
Salon (with music of John Bilotta, Loren Jones, Martha Stoddard, and the hostess -- her Golden Gate Bridge settings -- plus the videos for Diabolic Variations: XXIII [Belly Dance] through XXVIII [Candlelight Procession]).
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Board Meeting follows down the street at Erling's with a presentation from
John McGrew --perhaps our largest-attended meeting ever at 10
(make that 11 with Phil's appearance),
then home for the next Pied Piper Suite video
(IV. Pavane - Once More).
