Take in, with Harriet and Megan, a marvelous Metropolitan Opera production of Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold (1854 / 1990) -- fantastic and surreal -- while finishing
Abducted by Aliens, Op. 222
I. 1965 Gemini 7 Bogey
II. 214 BC Livy / 74 BC Plutarch
III. 1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg
IV. 1897 Aurora, TX, UFO Incident
V.1944 Foo Fighters / 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting / Roswell UFO Crash
VI. 1948 Thomas Mantell / Gorman Dogfight
VII. 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
VIII. 1957 Gordon Cooper / Antonio Villas-Boas / 1961 Betty and Barney Hill Abduction
IX. 1966 Portage County UFO Chase
X. 1973 Pascagoula Abduction / 1976 Tehran UFO Incident / 1986 Japan Air Lines
now in its entirety (a rocketting 89 pages, c. 15 minutes duration, the last movement mapped on Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose: IX and Gustav Holst's The Planets: VII. Neptune),
on
a
day
of
late-afternoon dramatic skies,
and just a bit more precipitation (though making a nicely palindromic 8.68 total since July 1, 2013)...
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
March 1 - 0.12
March 2 - 0.01
Ah, yes, also the 86th Academy Awards, where it is nice to see Gravity win for Steven Price's fine music, and ditto Alfonso Cuarón's direction.
