November 25 - Presidential Pleasure

Sting's King of Pain (always the end-of-semester theme song) for Dictation / Board Harmony with the

Diablo Valley College Theoreticians

(after

the

archetypal

a.

m.

adventure),

followed by paper-grading ecstacy,

the evening Music Historians in Quiz 14 mode (composers b. 1970 and beyond),

late out with Doug,

and beginning composition for Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: III. Eve.

November 24 - Surround Sound

Open rehearsal of George Crumb's Madrigals, Book II: I, with Alan Kingsley and Amanda Mello,

in

DVC Theory

(after Dictation / Board Harmony on Philip Glass's Akhnaten and Nefertiti, and re upcoming The Opus Project presents Opus 23, 8pm, Saturday, November 29, DVC Music Building),

followed by Diablo Valley College vocalists in 101,

plus Philharmonic Orchestra members for J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 140 ("Wachet auf").

Cybercopy

thereafter,

then

north

in

the

Clovian

fading

light

homeward to complete Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: XVIII. Harlequin Queen (10 pages total)

November 23 - Standing Tall

DVC  

J.S. Bach Cantata No. 140 ("Wachet auf") 

again,

after

the

theme-

and-

variations

south

to

Contra Costa,

and,

with Cybercopy closed,

decide to 

go for a seventh Sierra

adventure

of

the season,

but only as far a wander as the

Pacific Crest Trailhead

near

Donner

Summit,

Boreal,

and

Castle Ridge. 

Return,

via Big Bend,

 to compose page 9 Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: XVIII. Harlequin Queen.