March 13 - Testing, Testing


Theory Quiz 9, the musical selections drawn from Charles Ives's Serenity, Scott Joplin's The Entertainer, Claude Debussy's Piano Preludes, and Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring --


Owen's class following.



And


lo,


behold,


a


morning


and


an


afternoon


commute


(the


latter


including


local


lunch


and


a


scenic


semi-


rural


detour


via


Lagoon


Valley.


taking in the rest of the


Metropolitan Opera's 1990 Richard Wagner Gotterdammerung and another round the same production's Das Rheingold,


plus beginning to edit The Decameron - Fourth Day: V. Lisabetta's Brothers Slay her Lover.


21st day of summer, yet again the warmest of the year, now at 78 -- a Harry Partchian ring around the moon in the latter hours...