February 2 - (Cold Rain)


High 45 -- coldest day of the year so far, by far (with only 3 50's thus far -- January 11 [54], 8 [57, and February 1 [59]) -- and third of rain (.11, after 1/29-30's .02 and .13).


Mostly indoors, more score-study (Zoltan Kodaly - Hary Janos: Battle and Defeat of Napoleon, through page 6), composition (begin Abducted by Aliens: III. 1561 Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon - an orchestration, informed by Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, of Jacopo da Bologna's Non al suo Amante),


editing (Psalm 118 "Haec Dies" - combining a variety of tropes on same),


video operas


(a run of Rossini) with


Harriet (who's out mid-day for another Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore) and Megan.