April 23 - The Evolving Situation

Help Harriet get ready for Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore rehearsal and she is out the door for a 12-hour marathon, while the endeavors at home include beginning the composition of Psalm 54 (a post-minimalist trope on Andrea Gabrieli's Ricercar 12), finishing the linking of Variations and Theme pdfs (and posting same at IMSLP), transferring Mice Suite No. 1 (Op. 41) from PC to Mac, beginning the process of filing taxes for the years (OK, a bit late), bringing the Camino Real: Block 7 video to 4:15, and getting the December 1994 issue of 20th-Century Music ready to post online.  Additionally, press person from Presser re-checks in re Melinda Wagner, and drafts of Grove articles are sent to Dan Becker and Alden Jenks.

April 22 - Good Gates

Up early

and barely

out the

door in

time to

rendezvous

with

Crystal, despite our reasonably later hour of 8am.

Another lovely time in the open space with

Stanley

in tow

(or

us),

followed by Martin errands,

and over the Bay to Emeryville,

basically

stalling

for

time

with

another

stroll

along

the

waterfront, before the Berkeley / Oakland border

to

interview

Alden

Jenks

for Grove and 21st-Century Music.  A congenial and enlightening encounter,

followed by a reverse course to

Novato Toyota for standard maintenance,

a dalliance at Chevy's for paper evaluation,

then

a

slow

meandering

wander

through

Sonoma

and

Napa,

and the most-hurried-yet dash to the

library for videos plucked off the shelf two minutes before the last-call-for-checkout of the day -- including

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008),

Out of the Past (1947),

The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham 1925/2006),

The Paper Chase (1973),

The Paris Express (The Man who Watched Trains Go By, 1938 / 1952), and

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924, David Lean, 1984 -- including a lovely anachronistic usage of Vincent Youmans's Tea for Two, 1925).  Returning to share the cinematic wealth with Harriet, the evening also includes finishing Psalm 53, linking the next four Variations and Theme movements (three-quarters through), transferring Trumpet Concerto (Op. 40) from PC to Mac, and bringing the Camino Real: Block 7 video to 4:00.

47+ new pictures... sorta OK at 476 MB (46.5%) of 1024 -- so will have to go easy through Monday...