October 5 - Following the Lights

Review day in Theory,

in a striking morning of

su

and

cloud,

with Charles Ives's Variations on America Spanish Theme as dictation / keyboard-solfege / board harmony, and more

remarkable student compositions.

Harriet out on a job, and we just miss touching bases, as, after errands -- looping around via Franklin Canyon,

Cummings

Skyway,

and I-80 over the

Sulfur Springs --

return

return

homeward

to grade papers for both classes,

setting

out

again 

in

equally

 dramatic

light

(down

(the

680,

over

the

Benicia)

for the

evening

Lit Class, for music from Henry Purcell to J.S. Bach,

looking ahead to the Classical Era.

Even the night glows usher in mystery (a not inappropriate atmospher in which to learn eliptically of the death of Steve Jobs)

for

more errands and the second homecoming of the day, where somehow the typical musical endeavors are accomplished, not without fatigue against last lights...

Second-page pdf of Aerial Requiem and finishing composition of

Psalm 75 (four pages total)

and

The Cop and the Anthem

by now in three movements

I. Madison Square
II. Broadway Cafe
III. Sixth Avenue Shop (page two of this, 13 pages total thus far)

October 4 - Close-Up

And again under

unsettled skies to Diablo Valley College, now with Giuseppe Verdi's Aida: Triumphal Entry, Db Major Scale, C Chords, and fine student compositions.

Homeward under

and

over

various

bridges,

past rail,

quarry,

hill,

canyon,

ranches,

vale,

mountains,

wall,

foothills,

dale,

knoll,

setting sail for errands -- including the

library, where it's evidently time for some old TV, with

Abbott and Costello (1952),

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955), and

All in the Family (1971), and

Dark Shadows (1966) --

and musical endeavors along the lines of

Page 12 The Cop and the Anthem
Page 3 Psalm 75

plus beginning pdf of Aerial Requiem, Op. 27.

October 3 - Who Ordered This?

More uncharacteristically early-season rain,

heading off to DVC and the

Theoreticians (Week 8 -- approaching half-way through the semester), for a dictation / board-harmony on Frederic Chopin's Piano Prelude in E Minor... plus F Minor (Natural and Harmonic), Ab Major, and the Chromatic Scale.

Homeward thereafter,

on a day proving to be the

coolest since

June 28 (and that itself having been a fairly late-spring chill), with errands and endeavors including

Composition of

Page 11 The Cop and the Anthem
Page 2 Psalm 75

plus finishing pdf of Sinfonietta, with movement V.

October 2 - Re/d

Incorporate a fine review, by Michael McDonagh re Jed Distler's 9/11 program, into the November 2011 issue of 21st-Century Music, along with the daily update, and listen to / watch this year's red-letter Met production of Richard Strauss's Capriccio (1942), while multi-tasking re...

Pdf of Sinfonietta: IV
Tenth page composed for The Cop and the Anthem
Begin composition of Psalm 75
(the latter an updated more-yet-less syncopated / modal spin on Jacob Handl's Ecce Quomodo Moritur Justis, after Isaiah 57, for 4-part voices, perhaps doubled by guitars and bass, possibly with drums in the wing)

Second day of the month, and already more days of cool 70's weather than all of last month (with rather ominous projections ahead). 

Also leaf through a volume of poetry bestowed almost 15 years ago from Carolyn (the only Wikipedia info "red" as above, amazingly re Redding, CT), as well as looking over

Joe Klein's Primary Colors (somehow of similar hue).

October 1 - Dreaming

Yes, it's all a mystery, Harriet heading out early to be a judge on an arts council, with activities on the homefront including

Daily update of 21st-Century Music
Pdf of Sinfonietta: III
Ninth page composed for The Cop and the Anthem
Finish composition of Psalm 74 (6 pages total)

Upon her return, dinner and a double-feature of The Thin Man (Dashiel Hammett, 1934) and

After the Thin Man (1936), while linking pdf's of first four movements of Suite ("Sol[ar]") parts and emailing to Debby How.