December 6 - Hidden Delights

Begin pdf of Street Songs: II. At a Photo Shop before heading off to DVC for Week 2 Day 2 of student teaching with Jane, Rob, Sarah (sight-singing) and Anand (dictation), with brilliant compositions from

Hannah, Melissa, Miles, and Paul.  Linger afterwards, passing off quizzes with several, 

then home in calm conditions such that the season's inflatable

icons have returned.  Upon return compose the rest of The Cop and the Anthem (68 pages total) and 12th measure Psalm 81.

December 4 - Light and Dark

Catch-up and errands (including a comedy of broken and leaking bottles) are the order of the day, including pdf of eighth system Street Songs, composition re The Cop and the Anthem (64) and Psalm 81 (M10).  Harriet listens to the St. Francis mixes and is basically pleased.  Late night includes Facebook emails with Elaine, Brenda, and Dave.

December 3 - Threepenny Recordings

Acquire the original 1954 off-Broadway recording of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera -- a welcome re-acquaintance!

After the day's pdf'ing and composing (seventh system for Street Songs; 63 and M9 for The Cop and the Anthem and Psalm 81),

rendezvous

at

DVC with Zoli

Harriet, Branislav, and

Sarita to record Matthew Owens's City of St. Francis Act I Scenes 1 and 3, thanks to welcome assistance from Doug (setting the stage yesterday) and Francisco.  Late night mixing before return.

December 2 - Valentine Out of Season

Collect the paper for the day, and immediately notice that it is unusually warm -- 68 -- and,

by

the

afternoon,

having made the way back to DVC to record the rap section of Matthew Owens's City of St. Francis, the temps are 73-75... marvelous!  And, once again, so much for early November being any rigid cut-off for balmy times.

Also do the Pdf of system 6 Street Songs, and compose page 62 of The Cop and the Anthem and measure 8 of Psalm 81.  Somewhere in here, acquire the Victor Herbert / Walt Disney Babes in Toyland (1959 / 1961) -- never before seen, other than in an old picture-book, often read to Crystal and company in days of yore.

November 29 - Beacons

Another day of foggy / clear / foggy,

careening

forth to

Diablo Valley College for the second day of student teaching.  End of third round of compositions, so a presentation of Business As Usual: IIc. Information Wanted, rounds out the class, followed by an afternoon inversion of above as

clear /

foggy /

clear (the 680 corridor hangs tough with the clouds all day).  By evening, after typical musical endeavors (Street Songs pdf system 3, more composition re The Cop and the Anthem [page 59] and Psalm 81 [M5]), we head the door sequentially in the returned

stratus for

Berkeley

and

another

Kurt Weill

Project 

performance,

this

time

with

a

significant

portion

of  

The Threepenny Opera (featuring accordionist John Bilotta, artistic director Harriet March Page, and pianist Martha Cooper)  including The Ballad of Mac the Knife,

Instead of Song (Alexis Lane Jensen, Sibel Demirmen, Zoltan DiBartolo),

Barbara Song,

Jealousy Duet (Demirmen, Michelle Jasso),

Cannon Song (DiBartolo, Branislav Radadovic),

Pirate Jenny,

First Threepenny Finale, and the choral-reprise version of

Mac the Knife (Page, Lane Jensen, Dimirmen, Jasso, Radakovic, DiBartolo, Molly Mahoney, and Justin Marsh).  Excellent performances; with lots of familiar, friendly folks in attendance, including

Allan and William Crossman, Peter Josheff, Eliza O'Malley, John Veich, and Wayne Wong;

and a great time is had by all.

Homeward

lateward.