May 10 - Delusions and Realities


It was 20 years ago that a faux-Beethoven appeared on the stage with the Diablo Valley Philaharmonic at the Walnut Creek Center for the Arts, and


today he returns, longer of canine and rug,


first


heading


down


the musical corridors of I's 80


and


680


in


Solano


and


Contra Costa,


to the DVC 


Philharmonic Orchestra,


setting up the travelling-road-show equipment to deliver a semi-comedic lecture,


before


their


avidly-attended,


impressive


interpretation


of


the


German


icon's


Symphony 


No. 9 


("Choral"),


conducted by Owen Lee,


with chorus director Bret Peppo, featuring


contrabassoonist Laurie Garvey,


hornists Valerie and Steve Senavsky and Marnix van Ammers,


soprano Joyce Pricco,


alto


Carol Reynolds,


tenor David Chavez, and


violinists Maria Gusenkov / John Yoon /


Lawrence Huang /


Moet Onadera, and


bassist Trevor Murphy -- plus a host of additionally excellent other friends and associates.  Return home to continue editing pages 16 and 17 of The Decameron - Fourth Day: X and Psalm 122, plus finish up the first two videos for


Abducted by Aliens. -- I. Gemini VII Bogey and  


II. 214 BC Livy / 74 BC Plutarch.  60th day of summer, high again 73 -- third of this temperature in a row, discounting the chill of two days ago...