It was 20 years ago that a faux-Beethoven appeared on the stage with the Diablo Valley Philaharmonic at the Walnut Creek Center for the Arts, and
today he returns, longer of canine and rug,
first
heading
down
the musical corridors of I's 80
and
680
in
Solano
and
Contra Costa,
to the DVC
Philharmonic Orchestra,
setting up the travelling-road-show equipment to deliver a semi-comedic lecture,
before
their
avidly-attended,
impressive
interpretation
of
the
German
icon's
Symphony
No. 9
("Choral"),
conducted by Owen Lee,
with chorus director Bret Peppo, featuring
contrabassoonist Laurie Garvey,
hornists Valerie and Steve Senavsky and Marnix van Ammers,
soprano Joyce Pricco,
alto
Carol Reynolds,
tenor David Chavez, and
violinists Maria Gusenkov / John Yoon /
Lawrence Huang /
Moet Onadera, and
bassist Trevor Murphy -- plus a host of additionally excellent other friends and associates. Return home to continue editing pages 16 and 17 of The Decameron - Fourth Day: X and Psalm 122, plus finish up the first two videos for
Abducted by Aliens. -- I. Gemini VII Bogey and
II. 214 BC Livy / 74 BC Plutarch. 60th day of summer, high again 73 -- third of this temperature in a row, discounting the chill of two days ago...
