A productive last day of the month, finishing up the video of Geoge Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and continuing with items considerably earlier (taking cues from contemporary animal behavior as well as the fossil records),
with Harriet and
Megan (this latter her request for an email to a friend) -- probably being influenced by all -- while composing
Abducted by Aliens:
VI. 1948 Thomas Mantell / Gorman Dogfight
(inspired by the fourths of
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 4: I
Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra: I
Alexander Courage - Star Trek: Main Title)
VII. 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
(another triple trope, now ghoulishly on
Camille Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre and Carnival of the Animals: Fossils
George Crumb - Black Angels: Danse Macabre -- all as a passacaglia over i-bVI-iv-v)
(yet a third...
Igor Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles: Postlude
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 3
George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children: V)
Ah, yes, and the temperature / rainfall month (and precipitation year -- from July 1 -- thus far...), recapitulation and augmenting...
September 21 - 0.22
September 25 - 0.01
September 26 - 0.01
November 19 - 0.41
November 20 - 0.23
December 6 - 0.60
January 29 - 0.02
January 30 - 0.12
February 2 - 0.11
February 5 - 0.10
February 6 - 0.42
February 7 - 0.71
February 8 - 2.23
February 9 - 0.96
February 15 - 0.01
February 26 - 1.04
February 27 - 0.07
February 28 - 1.28
for a total of 8.55 to date (more rainy days this month than the rest of the rainfall year combined) -- if this were the yearly,
certainly such to qualify as a desert....
