February 24 - Touched

By mid afternoon and into the evening, general catch-up and the composition page 8 of Abducted by Aliens: IV. 1891 Aurora, TX, UFO Incident -- on the 16th day of summerlike temperatures for the year, high for the third day in a row of 72 (five sequentially as 70, 70, 72, 72, 72) -- over videos with

Megan and Harriet.

Earlier,

Week

7

begins

with the

Theoreticians... J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 140 ("Wachet auf"): VII. Chorale, as Dictation / Board Harmony + C Melodic Minor Scale, etc., Owen's class,

and

viewful

return.

February 23 - All Relative

Another gathering of Harriet's relatives, this time in Brentwood,

with a relatively early start to the day after last night's fantastic / feverish Opus 14 concert,

down

the

fog-threatened

80 /

680

with

Megan and Harriet,

first

to

John Bilotta's

for the 

Goat Hall Productions Fresh Voices XIV Selection Committee, where, among the standouts are:

Mark Alburger - Abducted by Aliens
Richard Bagwell - To Hell with Heroes

John Bilotta - The Music Lesson from Rosetta's Stone
Yvonne Freckmann - Close Encounter of the Hillbilly Kind
Alden Jenks - Ghost Songs
Helena Michaelson - It Isn't Music That... 

That done,

northeast /

east,

mostly

via

4,

initially

to

Brentwood's

downtown

park,

then

off

across

town

to

the

nostalgic

festivities

for

a

fine

time --

enlightening

and

intriguing,

including

tour

du

maison,

and

plenteous

pictures.

Head

out homeward in the evening to compose page 7 of Aliens: IV. 1891 Aurora, TX, UFO Incident, on the 15th day of summerlike temperatures for the year, high again 72 ( 70, 70, 72, 72 the last four days; as opposed to 68, 73, 73, 75 in Brentwood)...