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

November 21 - Sun and Moon, More

Up in the hours before dawn putting most of the old May 2011 back-issue of 21st-Century Music in published form, then out the door with the not-so-twin orbs coming and going,

down the freeway in

flame

and

fog

to

rendezvous

in

the

latter

with

Crystal and

Stanley,

making our way to Plateau

Hill

and

back, then the post box for financial greetings,

over the Bay and

back into the light,

for the last week of content with the Diablo Valley College Theoreticians.  Today, it's back-to-back Philip Glass excerpts (from Satyagraha and Akhnaten (the former with all contrary motion, the latter with all common tones) for dictation (just time for the bass lines) and board harmony, introducing the final keyboard-solfege (a two-bar chorus passage from Sting's Synchronicity: King of Pain) and five seventh-chords (major, dominant, minor, half-diminished, and fully diminished in three keys (G, C, and F).  Afterwards,

homeward

up

the

680

and

80

corridors

under

billows

via

errands

to

catch

up on pdf'ing (Mary Variations: XV). and composition (The Cop and the Anthem, page 55, and beginning Psalm 81),

then to the City for San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra board meeting, discussing re-introduction of trombone and tuba to our numbers, plus other gripping matters.  Linger with Erling and

return late.  Meanwhile, have been listening to a lot of Igor Stravinsky recently, including

The Firebird

Petrushka

The Rite of Spring

Song of the Nightingale

Renard

Histoire du Soldat

Ragtime for 11 Instruments

Pulcinella

Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Les Noces

Concerto for Piano and Winds

Symphony Of Psalms

Violin Concerto

Three Sacred Choruses

Dumbarton Oaks Concerto

Symphony jn C

Circus Polka

Babel

Ebony Concerto

Symphony in Three Movements

Mass

The Rake's Progress

Greeting Prelude

Agon

Tres Sacrae Cantiones (Carlo Gesualdo)

Threni

The Dove Descending

The Flood

Eight Instrumental Miniatures

Introitus in Memoriam T.S. Eliot

Requiem Canticles

The Owl and the Pussycat