First rehearsal for
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's
Music of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water
(8pm, October 4, Old First Presbyterian Church,
Sacramento at Van Ness, San Francisco, CA),
including
Michael Kimbell - Front Line
Lisa Scola Prosek - Interludes from "The Lariat"
I. The Ventana Wind
II. Hualala and the Crickets
III. Variations on a Modoc War Song
Mark Alburger - Abducted by Aliens, Op. 222 (2014)
I. 1965 Gemini VII Bogey
II. 214 BC Livy / 74 BC Plutarch
III. 1561 Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon
IV. 1897 Aurora, TX, UFO Incident
V.1944 Foo Fighters / 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting
/ Roswell UFO Crash
VI. 1948 Thomas Mantell / Gorman Dogfight
VII. 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
VIII. 1957 Gordon Cooper / Antonio Vilas-Boas /
1961 Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
IX. 1966 Portage County UFO Chase
X. 1973 Pascagoula Abduction /
1976 Tehran UFO Incident / 1986 Japan Air Lines
Stardust - Railway Sonata
Loren Jones - Raven and Panther
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Previous
to
these
endeavors,
Quiz 6 for the
Theoreticians
(the musical examples drawn from Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo, Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi, and J.S. Bach),
Finale Orchestrational assistance
(alongside paper grading)
and
coffee
with
Carol,
and the pilgrimage to
SF. Home late, on the194th day of summer, high down 8 points to 78 (first apex this low since August 5's 77 and late spring temperatures ending with June 16's 75), with a second page of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1903 Gustave Charpentier composed.
Very late, express out
Anton Webern (1883-1945) - Symphony, Op. 21, No. 1 (1928)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) - Sancta Susanna, Op. 21 (1921) - Conclusion
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) - Japanese Romance, Op. 21 (1932) - II. Before Suicide [!]
Scott Sterling (b. 1970) - Scherzo Round (2014)
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989) - Northrend Tides (2013)
Pierre Boulez (b. 1926) - Le Marteau sans Maitre (1955): III. L'artesanat furieux
to Opus Project folks...
