April 19 - More Color


Mostly around the house, more clean-up / re-organization, out for errands in the evening, and scattered through the hours the editing of page 7 The Decameron - Fourth Day: IX. Sieur Guillaume de Roussillon Slays his Wife's Paramour (Opus 211) + begin the editing of Psalm 121 (from Psalms, Book 5, Opus 218),


on this 44th day of summer, high 73 (Weather Underground has a new format, as of this week).


Touch base with Harriet (as has been the case every day since her departure to Seattle on the 10th), and she is on her way home at last, staying the night south of the rain, in Roseburg.  Meanwhile, in addition to reviewing Opus 16 repertory in preparation for The Opus Project presents Opus 16 (8pm, Saturday, April 26, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) and recent Alburgerian tomes, have had a fair amount of Igor Stravinsky as working background for the last three days, including:

Renard (1916)
Four Russian Peasant Songs (1917)
Song of the Nightingale (1917)
Histoire du Soldat (1918)
Ragtime for 11 Instruments (1918)
Piano-Rag Music (1919)
Pulcinella (1920)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
Mavra (1922)
Les Noces (1923)
Octet (1923)
Tilim Bom (1923)
Concerto for Piano and Winds (1924)
Sonata for Piano (1924)
Piano Serenade in A (1925)
Orchestral Suites No. 1 and No. 2 (1925)
Apollo (1926)
Oedipus Rex (1927)
The Fairy's Kiss (1928)
Four Etudes for Orchestra (1928)
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1929)
Symphony of Psalms (1930)
Violin Concerto (1931)
Duo Concertant for Violin and Piano (1932)
Persephone (1934)
Three Sacred Choruses (1934)
Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (1935)
The Card Party (1936)
Preludium for Jazz Ensemble (1938)
Concerto in Eb ("Dumbarton Oaks") (1938)
Symphony in C (1940)
Bluebird (1941)
The Star-Spangled Banner (1941)
Circus Polka (1942)
Danses Concertantes for Orchestra (1942)
Four Norwegian Moods (1942)
Ode (1942)
Babel (1944)
Scenes de Ballet (1944)
Scherzo a la Russe (1944)
Sonata for Two Pianos (1944)
Ebony Concerto (1945)