Showing posts with label Psalm 73. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psalm 73. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2011

September 25 - Portents


Up early,


perhaps due to the ethereal light from without, and, sure enough,


a red sky to take under due consideration.


Later, seemingly on cue, while doing yard work with Harriet, a few sprinkles, ending the typical summer rainless season (last previous precip, June 28),


and the string of 80's/90's/100's weather


(highest for year so far, 102, on July 5 --


and the last temp in the 70's the day after the last rains... 6/29).  Compose third page of The Cop and the Anthem and ninth for Psalm 73 (finishing latter, and recording with the Garishtone Ensemble), producing also page 8 of pdf for Sinfonietta: II.  Relatively late in the day, design a call/invite for the


Fresh Voices XI and XII shows, based on a photo that could very well be next year's blog picture, calling to mind that we are approaching 5 years on blogspot


(2008,


on


the


verge of


2012).


Also prepare material for tomorrow's teaching evaluation at DVC.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

September 24 - Masks


Up early to establish a blog for Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera at http://goathallproductions.blogspot.com/.  Also Finish parts for Suite ("Sol[ar]"): IV (as much as is slated for Swarthmore), produce seventh-page pdf of Sinfonietta: II, and compose page 8 of Psalm 73 and 2 for The Cop and the Anthem.

Friday, September 23, 2011

September 23 - Clear Before the Darkness


Produce new parts for Suite ("Sol[ar]): III, sixth-page pdf for Sinfonietta: II, plus compose page 7 of Psalm 73 --


before heading out in the evening with Harriet,


down the


80 corridor to


Berkeley for the monthly


Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera board meeting, now at Chamber Arts.  Afterwards, begin composition of The Cop and the Anthem, Op. 198.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

September 20 - Planetary


Finish new pdf for Suite ("Sol[ar]"): IV. Earth,


then


DVC-ward, for Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony on Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth, heading home thereafter


(with a side trip witnessing what further havoc hath wrought the earth-movers), for 3rd-page pdf of Sinfonietta: II,


with fourth sheet composed re Psalm 73.

Monday, September 19, 2011

September 19 - Here and High


Finish new pdf for Suite ("Sol[ar]"): III. Venus, continue work on same for Sinfonietta: II, and compose the third page of Psalm 73. before heading off to Diablo Valley College, gravelly road work on the last few blocks, for Week 6 of Theory, with a dictation on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo: Tu sei morta and quite a number of scales: E and C Minor (both Natural and Harmonic), and A and E Major.  Upon return notice strange sounds when braking and turning left.  Call the shop and decide it might be auspicious for them to take a look.  Indeed, when backing onto the road, hear another suspicious stirring, but then,


on the


entire trip


through Solano


and


Sonoma to


Marin,


all seems well.


Discuss the situation at service, and we mutually suspect that whatever happened through the construction has worked itself out (perhaps the final noise).


As such,


head south


on 101


towards the


Golden Gate,


where the weather is so mysteriously glorious that a


swing through the


Headlands


cannot be resisted


(the steep descent of west


Conzelman Road calls up the ghosts of previous brake suspicions,


which again dissipate,


at least for present).


Looping


through


Rodeo


Valley,


back on


the brink,


and


eventually,


across the


span,


San Francisco is looking relatedly wonderful,


through the priviledged confines of


Sea Cliff


and


welcoming equanimity of


Lincoln Park


and


Point Lobos Avenue,


then


south on the


Grea


Highway


and


Skyline


Boulevard.


Beyond,


Route 1


continues its


seductive way


south through


Pacifica;


Devil's Slide;


Gray Whale,


Montara,


and


Miramar Beaches; and


Half Moon Bay, to


Miramontes


Road,


where it's time to continue the string of walks along the Coast


(continuous from Pierce Point to this intersection, with many other hikes north and south of this contiguity).


For today, a stroll will suffice to


Cowell Ranch and


Verde /


Purisima Creek


Roads,


as


the


sun,


and


some


vehicles,


give up the ghost (precisely at 7:15pm in the former's case).


Return via Verde and the Coast Road, etc., north to a San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra board meeting -- with Davide, David, Loren, and Phil -- then over to Potrero Hill to drop off a Regime Change CD to Lisa for Olivia.


Later, back on the home front, establish a blog (http://sfcco.blogspot.com/) for the group.