First Music Faculty Meeting of the Spring 2014 Semester -- with the economy in better shape, more funding, but fewer students across the board, yet feeling hopeful.
This after continued animated academic activity in the morning (including poster design and production),
and
a
fevered
commute --
with the proceedings starting mercifully late, such that the arrival remains a timely one.
Linger with Bruce Cooke and Owen Lee, catching up on various topics,
then head over to the business office for the monthly financial, enriched by various substitution gigs of late.
A
swing
round
round
for
errands,
then
homeward
in
the
half-
light,
the
slanting
sun
yielding
to
tinted
textures,
updating the Music History selections (6 per week x 16 weeks = 96 selections!), finish editing Psalm 107 (11 pages total), and score-study Arnold Schoenberg's Peace on Earth, Op. 13 (first three pages will do it for upcoming The Opus Project presents Opus 13, 8pm, Saturday, January 26, Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University)...
Oh, yes, also check out Kickstarter, particularly re projects of Kronos Quartet (David Harrington),
Other Minds (Charles Amirkhanian, re Conlon Nancarrow),
Allison Lovejoy,
Lisa Scola Prosek,
Switchboard,
Sheli Nan, and
Kenric Taylor (re Milton Babbitt).
