April 28 - Times of the Sign

Another walk along Nelson Road with Harriet,

now

the

North

Lagoon

Mountains

downslope

towards

Fairfield,

followed

by

a

reversal

up

the

slopes,

in

great

detail,

down,

and

across to appetisers and libations at Joe's Creekside,

homeward to edit page 3 of The Decameron - Fourth Day: X. The Wife of a Doctor Deems her Lover, Who Has Taken an Opiate, to Be Dead and 4 for Psalm 122 ("Laetatus sum").

Much earlier,

out

early

to

Diablo Valley College, to move percussion from the Recital Hall back to the Ensemble Room, but, lo, work has been done.

Explanations, thanks, mindfulness for the future -- take in Brett's class,

where

special

presentations are the order of the day,

then Theory, with Garret doing likewise, presenting George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps as Signt-Singing and Board Harmony.

Homeward

on

the

49th

day

of

summer,

high

finally

rebounding

to the 70's...

77, no less.

Also finish score-study of the Arnold Schoenberg Erwartung, Op. 17: Interlude (1909 - four pages total), and begin that for George Enescu's Symphony No. 2, Op. 17, No. 1 (Introduction, 1914).

April 27 - In the Beauty

Recovery mode,

catch-up,

errands,

and

editing page 2 of The Decameron - Fourth Day: X. The Wife of a Doctor Deems her Lover,  Who Has Taken an Opiate, to Be Dead and 3 for Psalm 122 ("Laetatus sum").

Also gather recordings, scores, and videos; and do general research, developing playlist for The Opus Project presents Opus 17 (8pm, May 31), as below...

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)            Then I Questioned No Further, Op. 17, No. 1 (1902)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)            King Estmere, Op 17: Introduction (1903)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)        Erwartung, Op. 17: Interlude (1909)
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962)    Malinconia, Op. 17, No. 1 (1917)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)            Handelian Rhapsody, Op. 17 (1909)       
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)            String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, No. 2 (1917)
George Enescu (1881-1955)        Symphony No. 2, Op. 17, No. 1 (1914)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)        The Nightingale: Entr'acte (1914)   
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)        Slumber Song, Op. 17, No. 9 (1907)   
Anton Webern (1883-1945)            Dearest Virgin, We Are Yours, Op. 17b (1925)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)        Sarcasm, Op. 17, No. 1 (1914)       
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)        Proteus, Op.17: Act I, Overture (1919)   
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)        Piano Sonata, Op. 17: Stretta (1920)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)            Jump Over the Shadow, Op. 17 (1923)
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)            The Royal Palace, Op. 17 (1927)   
Paul Creston (1906-1985)            Choric Dance, Op. 17 (1938)           
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)    Pastorale by Scarlatti, Op. 17, No. 1 (1928)       
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)            Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17  (1942)           
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)        Symphony No. 1, Op. 17: Andante maestoso (1937)
John Cage (1912-1992)            Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939)   
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)        Paul Bunyan, Op. 17 (1941)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)        Ollantay, Op. 17, No. 1 (1947)
Steve Reich (b. 1936)                Clapping Music (1972)
Philip Glass (b. 1937)                Music in Fifths (1969)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)            Coursing, Op. 17 (1979)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)            Two and a Half Pieces, Op. 17 (1979)    

... and begin score-study of the Schoenberg...