May 5 - Academic Adventures

Up fairly early, receiving the changes from Philip Glass's contact person re the Grove article, transferring San Fernando Hub (Op. 48) from PC to Mac, and composing seventh page of Psalm 55, reformatting King David: VII. Oh for the Wings of a Dove into Encore from Sibelius, before dropping videos at library

and

proceeding to

DVC for Quiz 14 -- Analysis -- the final academic exercise before the exam, with the next two weeks given over to student teaching and review.

Home via

the

last

walk

on

McGary Road

from the most northeasternly ranch gate

to

Red Top (nice double stop sign)

with panoramas

(heavy on the nouns, short on the adjectives)

all around.

After a supply run, movement VIII of 12 Fingers pdf'ed for linkeage and placement on IMSLP, with the video of Camino Real: Block 8 up to 45 seconds.

PC misbehaves a bit -- an error message never before seen (shut it down after a bizarre screen, and it boots right up back normal, as if nothing had happened... google issue, and it may or may not be serious) -- so redouble efforts to transfer music to the Mac by emailing over files of

Business As Usual (Op. 49)
L.A. Stories (Op. 50)
San Rafael News (Op. 51)
Abraham and Isaac (Op. 52)
Mice Suite No. 2 (Op. 53)
Israel in Trouble (Op. 54)
The Passsion According to St. Matthew (Op. 55)
For My Brother For My Brother (Op. 56)
Amazing Joseph (Op. 57)
The Ten Commandments (Op. 58)
Mice Suite No. 3 (Op. 59)
12 Preludes and Fugues ("Topical") (Op. 60)

Also make final edits of the Philip Glass article revision, and email off to Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Editor of The Grove Enclyclopedia of American Music, Second Edition.

And -- yee-hah! -- actually ahead of the game re blog usage: still at 485 MB (47.46%) of 1024 MB: good because could easily go over tomorrow...

May 4 - The Ayes

Sixth page composed for Psalm 55, reformatting King David: VII. Oh for the Wings of a Dove into Encore from Sibelius, and movement VII of 12 Fingers pdf'ed and linked... until DVC beckons, to conclude the Sting King of Pain -- now chorus as dictation / keyboard-solfege / board harmony.  Also over the details of final week and premiere the video of Camino Real: Block 7 to warm response.

Extensive time in the lab thereafter, composing / recording All the BBC Sound Files (Op. 192):

IX. International
X. Communications
XI. Water
XII. British Birds
XIII. Industry
XIV. Cities
XV. Rural Atmospheres
XVI. Cars
XVII. Sports and Leisure
XVIII. Bang!
XIX. Electronic Sounds
XX. Weather I

Return in the lovely 87-degree setting sun

to transfer Babel (Op. 47) from PC to Mac, take the Camino Real: Block 8 up to a half-a-minute.

And -- voila! -- the blog megabyte usage right on schedule: holding at 485 MB (47.4%) of the 1024 .MB.

May 3 - Narrowing In

Fifth page composed for Psalm 55, reformatting King David: VII. Oh for the Wings of a Dove into Encore from Sibelius, and movement VI of 12 Fingers pdf'ed and linked before waltzing off to DVC (computer well in hand), for dictation / board harmony on one of the theme songs: Sting's King of Pain (verse).

Head back towards home to correct a round of Music Literature papers

then

round

back

for

music from Adolf Deutsch's Some Like It Hot to Willie Dixon's Hoochie-Coochie Man, leaping ahead to Pierre Boulez and George Crumb, 

then even farther ahead after the quiz.

Direct return, so there's even time to transfer Iliad Songs (Op. 46) from PC to Mac, and begin video for Camino Real: Block 8.

Still a day ahead on megabyte usage on the bloc, now at 485 MB (47.39%) of 1024 MB -- but tomorrow should be right on schedule...

May 1 - The Mystic Convection

Second page composed for Psalm 55, reformatting King David: VII. Oh for the Wings of a Dove into Encore from Sibelius, movement IV of 12 Fingers pdf'ed and linked, and Act V Scene 1 Mice and Men transferred from PC to Mac -- time to hit the road, over hill and

across plain to

Marin's

Four

Points

Sheraton,

interviewing

Behzad Ranjbaran for Commuter Times and 21st-Century Music.  We have a pleasant chat, after which there's lingering in the lobby to do a second Psalm page,

then break for

sustenance before

making the

way over to

Veteran's

Auditorium

for

Marin Symphony's performance of Ranjbaran's Mithra (short version of interview and review by Tuesday at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com) along with works by Dvorak and Brahms.  Home again, for Camino Real: Block 7 video through 6:15.

Still holding at 484 MB (47.32%) of 1024 MB -- despite 16 new pictures...

April 30 - Ready for Anything

Begin composing Psalm 55, reformatting King David: VII. Oh for the Wings of a Dove into Encore from Sibelius, as well as linking another of 12 Fingers pdf's (for a total of 3 thus far -- a quarter of the way done) and receiving Melinda Wagner's final edit of her article, sending it on to Grove.

Then Harriet and I are out the door severally

down the beauteous

corridor to

San

Francisco,

in

the

latter

case

honing

in

on

Yerba

Buena Gardens Theatre,

meeting up with Michael Mcdonagh,

Philip Glass (leaving the the revised Grove article in his dressing room, at his request), and Eduardo Prado for

Glass's

solo

recital -- which is surprisingly strong, benefitted by music from Glassworks, The Thin Blue Line, The Screens, Hydrogen Jukebox (with a taped Allen Ginsberg), plus Mad Rush and selections from 16 Etudes and other works.  If their are questions in the spirit of Anton Rubenstein's "Ah, what mistakes!", the experience bears the authenticity akin to Charles Ives's sessons in the recording studio.  The Ensemble covers much, but the lack thereof reveals equally... not least a decided Glassian romanticism with regard to dynamics and tempi.

Afterwards give Eduardo a lift home, in thanks for him informing me of this concert, then spend quite a bit of time on a quiet Hayward

sidestreet trying to figure out how to clear excess recordings and videos from iPhone,

such that more pictures can be taken.

Proceed apace to a funky distict in Alameda,

wherein lies Rhythmics

performance space,

for Harriet's La Triaviata opening (H is seen here with Raina Simons -- clearly a convocation of wonderful singers!):

an impressive show

(including a chamber orchestra of 1222 0000 22110),

and looking forward to taking in the entirety soon.

But for now, it's off home to receive Dan Becker's revised article, sending that and a provisional Glass one to Charles Hiroshi Garrett and Grove Online / The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition.

Finished.  It's finished.  It must be nearly finished.  Many hours have been spent on the Grove project, and now my tasks in this regard have pretty much concluded.  There will be interviews to transcribe and run in 21st-Century Music, as sequels to the work, but this will be another story.

For now, back to transferring Act IV Mice and Men from PC to Mac, adding another 15 seconds of video to Camino Real: Block 7 (up to 6 minutes), and, oh yes, the Journal...

Alas, up to 484 MB (47.27%) of 1024 MB -- which seems an excessive +3, given only 31 new pics, but whatever...  Further, tomorrow will perhaps wreak more photographic havoc, so will have to take it easy through next Tuesday, which should be possible.