November 9 - Partly Obscured

Mary Variations: III pfd and

down the road in

clouds and

sun for another Diablo Valley College Music Theory session, today being dictation / keyboard-solfege / board-harmony re the Andrew Lloyd Webber Jesus Christ Superstar: Hosanna (first 4 bars) and a second big day of impressive

Round 3 student compositions.

Return homeward

via

errands, to catch up with grading papers, then back for the evening cadre, proceeding from Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme through Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, jumping ahead a bit to touch base with the listening of the week for

Quiz 9, then even farther as below:

+ Write your own 12-tone row (The chromatic scale in any unique mixed-up order),

with music, including

8891 Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
8892 Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde: Fugue
8898 George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
8900 Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring: II. Allegro
8903 Joe Garland - In the Mood
8906 Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5: I

Reverse again past

strange transport, to compose pages 43 and 3rd system of The Cop and the Anthem and Psalm 79.

September 1 - This Is Not a Test

Quiz 3 for the Theoreticians, with musical examples from American Indians, Gregorian Chant, and the Musica Enchiriadis, after the usual 21st-Century Music morning, then homeward to do the parts for the first two movments of Regime Change, Op. 196 -- premiere essay in using the Finale parts function, and, while at times maddening, in many ways delightful and the only way to go.  One tragic flaw seems the inability to make parts numbered from a different starting point than the score (movement 2 typically will be a different file, starting from, say page 12, whereas flute part, for instance, may only be on page 2) -- a workaround can be saving one file as the parts properly numbered; then going back and saving a second version of the music in order to number the score.  Meanwhile do some other typical tasks of the day...

Pdf for Orpheus Cycle:III (second set of 3 pages)
Pdf's of The Passion According to St. Matthew: XIX-XX
6th page composed for Psalm 70
18th clip incorporated for Camino Real: Block 9

August 31 - Seeing and Hearing

Week 3 for the Music Historians, making our way from Balinese gamelan through early Islamic music, via Gregorian chant, listening and looking ahead as above.

Before this a roving afternoon of paper grading (Xavier's alphabetization and pre-grading really helping) from Yan's Garden (Music Theory) to

Elephant Bar (Music History), the day starting with the usual 21st-Century work and Theory (the Orkney Islands Hymn to St. Magnus, lots of great student questions re modes, and History Phases: I Turkey / Asia Minor) and

ending with the impossible...

Pdf for Orpheus Cycle: III (first three pages)
Pdf's of The Passion According to St. Matthew: XVII-XVIII
5th page composed for Psalm 70
100th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
200 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3 
17th clip incorporated for Camino Real: Block 9 

August 28 - Return to the Scene

Out mid-morning with Harriet to pick up the car, which, after a check-up, proves to be in good shape.  Work on this and that through the day -- including

Linking Pdf's of Sequence Music, Op. 23
Pdfs for The Passion According to St. Matthew: XI-XII
2nd page composed for Psalm 70
97th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
170 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3


-- as H heads to a rehearsal, and decide to detour back toward the remains of the fire, thinking this a prelude to another Tahoe hike.  By the time that steps are retaken down

Vanden,

across

Foxboro

(with

a

bit

of

diversion),

south

on

Peabody

(now

re-opened),

wandering about Goodman,

Gervaise

etc.,

ultimately

west on Cement Hill, northwest in the

Manuel

Campos

country where evidently the blaze began

(Mystic at

Donnington), and

 ultimately

northeast

on

80 -- the afternoon is waning, and the traffic farther east daunting, so think it prudent to call this enough of an outing for the day, placing the 14th clip for the video of Camino Real: Block 9, and finishing up the re-reading of the

Aeschylus Oresteia in the Philip Vellacott translation.  Ah, that sense of deja vu...

August 27 - Elementary

Home with Harriet most of the day -- with general catch-up, 21st-Century Music work, and the other typical endeavors

Finishing Pdf's of Sequence Music, Op. 23, with movement III
Pdfs for The Passion According to St. Matthew: IX-X
Begin composing Psalm 70
96th orchestrated page of The Countess Cathleen
160 pages total for edit of Symphony No. 3

into the early evening, watching Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus (plus Hurricane Irene news, and calling Bette, George, and Sorrel, to ascertain that all is basically well (a tornado watch comes and goes).  Meanwhile upon stepping outside, note smoke to the

south and

southwest, similar to last month.

A fire is

raging on

Cement Hill, so, cannot resist going out to check the situation,

swinging southwest on 80, east on Dickson Hill Road, 

taking in the view from

Goodman, then north on

Vanden, west on Alamo, and south on

Peabody.

Somewhere in the tangle of suburbia east of this, there is car trouble.  Must leave the vehicle, calling Harriet, agreeing to meet her at Vanden and Newcastle (an easier rendezvous point), setting off on the bike to this destination (awkwardly laden with newspaper, milk, and a coke).  The wait is a brief one, though rather lonely, with the alarming passing to the west of a biking cadre in the dark.  Harriet's car is packed for the rehearsal tomorrow, so the passenger's seat must be shared with the mercifully collapsible bike, and somehow we arrive home safely.

Somewhere in there, finish re-reading Keith Abbott's Mordecai of Monterey and do the 13th clip for Camino Real: Block 9.