October 28 - Smashing Surprise


Learn with alarm that, after The Opus Project presents Opus 22, some big suspicious guy apparently stepped in front of Carol's car, more-or-less intentionally jumping unto the hood and shattering the windshield.  Miracle-of-miracles, he was OK, but wanted money on the spot, rather than reporting the "accident."


In other news, make the jump to the


DVC Theoreticians, for


Richard Rodger's The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi as Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony (Continuo-Style Voice-Leading) -- and the


Music Historians, looking beyond as follows...



Write Your Own Four-Note Passage

Forwards (Ex. ABCD)

Backwards (DCBA)

Upside-Down (AGFE)

Backwards Upside-Down (EFGA)


Three Types of Jazz Bands

Dixieland (New Orleans Style)
[1-2] Clarinet
[1-2] Trumpet
Trombone
Banjo
Piano
Tuba / Bass
Drums

Swing (Big Band)
[4-5] Saxophones
[4-5] Trumpets
[4-5] Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Bebop (Bop)
Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums


Listening

Samuel Barber - Cello Concerto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOxp6bXoz48

John Cage - Living Room Music: II. Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFUJd8RRjdM

[8913] Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool

[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre: III. L'Artisanat Furieux
                                  (The Masterless Hammer: III. Furious Craftsmanship)

[8929] George Crumb - Black Angels

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227th day of summer, high again up to 78 -- with 73, definitely the signature temp of the month -- the peak of four dates each...

78 - 16, 22, 23, 28
73 - 15, 20, 26, 27

... finishing Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: VIII. Woman in the Window (8 pages total).