March 21 - On the Cusp, Maybe

Page 4 of Psalm 50 and some 21st-Century Music work

before

a

dictation / keyboard-solfege / board-harmony on Scott Joplin's The Entertainer,

with make-up quizzes and tutorials directly following in one of the larger, heavily-used practice rooms.

Linger afterward in the lab and over coffee with Doug,

finishing the composition of 50 (through 6) and recording same,

touching base with Bruce over possible plans for the fall.

Beyond,

the Coast

Range

beckons

to

the

Bay Bridge and San Francisco for another

Lisa Scola Prosek

Salon (with her music along with that of

Allan Crossman, David Graves, Loren Jones, and Marty Stoddard, plus Camino Real: Prologue), followed by the monthly

San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

board meeting at Erling's.  Home to put up the second movement of Psalm 6 (i.e. VI-X) and bring the video for Camino Real: Block 2 up to 6 minutes.

March 20 - Ready

Harriet at rehearsal, page 3 of Psalm 50 composed, suited up and out in the

dramatically

clearing

sky to the

Vacaville

Performing

Arts Center for the second

Solano

Symphony show, at a markedly higher standard (well, maybe until the end), with a healthy-sized audience. 

Home to bring the Camino Real: Block 2 video up to 5'15" and upload

Psalm 6: I-V on to IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project).

March 19 - Making Music

Harriet out at rehearsals for both Verdi and Weill all day (she has completely dispensed with the walking contraption), Psalm 50 page 3 composed, more helpful back and fourth with Grove subjects and editor (particularly fine clarification re the word count of the Glass), a hair-buzz downtown, the evening show with Solano Symphony at the Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts (back to the scene of the crime from last month, in performances which go reasonably well) with dangerous rain and wind (but fairly secure woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings) fore and aft, and up to all of five minutes with the video for Camino Real: Block 2.

March 18 - Run for the Books

Suspect composition of page 2 Psalm 50, another 15 seconds of Camino Real: Block 2 video (at 4'45" this is getting ridiculous), and a yet-again zip to the

library for Harriet (like clockwork from last week, just as "will close in 20 minutes" announcement is made).

Another set of surprises borrowed --

Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (1956 / 1973),

Look Back in Anger (1959 and

1989 after the 1953 play by John Osborne),

The Lost Boys (1978, re J.M. Barrie, whose Peter Pan character first appeared in 1902),

Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985 / 2007),

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (Han Suyin [Elizabeth Comber], 1952 / 1955),

 Luther (again by Osborne, 1973, from the 1961 play),

M Butterfly (David Henry Hwang, 1988 / 1993),

The Maids (Jean Genet, 1947 / 1974),

Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814 / 2009),

The Man with Two Faces (1934), and

Marked Woman (1937) -- then

back to email off Grove article drafts to

Belinda Reynolds
Alex Shapiro
Andrew Shapiro
Melinda Wagner
William Winant
Erling Wold

and begin to update Edward Strickland's Philip Glass Grove Online article.  Takes a while to find, but the updating proves easier -- now all that remains is to add info on the last 10 year's of Glass's music in the text and works list... will probably start with the latter and move to the former, both next week.  Meanwhile, Alex, Willie, and Erling check in positively re the aritcles.  Alex does a fine bit of rewrite, but a bit too long, nevertheless Charles Hiroshi Garrett proves positive in acceptance and in further editorial skill, making a third article ready for the Oxford editorial process (proceeded by American Baroque and Mona Lyn Reese), so everything is moving at a reasonable fashion towards the April 1 deadlines.

March 17 - We Never Know

Begin composing Psalm 50 with some 21st-Century Music work in basically blue skies before Quiz 8, with excerpts drawn from Frederic Chopin's Prelude in E Minor, Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto and Il Trovatore, Georges Bizet's Carmen, Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1, and Charles Ives's Variations on America.

Bit of a linger assisting those passing off quizzes, then homeward past people on rooftops

before

greater

heights

in

a

billowy

variegated

sky,

for another miniscule movie bit of Camino Real: Block 2 (all the way through 4'30'' -- truly just about Cage, with a related potential of indeterminate content), and the

dress rehearsal of

Solano Symphony's

Borodin / Beethoven / Mozart show at the Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts.