February 27 - Happy


Birthday celebration for Harriet at


Tisha's with Tom, down from Walla Walla. 


We take a stroll along the Vallejo


Waterfront,


then return for


dinner and desert.


The day (high 66)


begins


with the


jaunt to


Diablo


and review of Quiz 7 material for the Theoreticians, plus continuing imaginative Student Compositions of Round 2,


returning


homeward


to begin score-study of Bela Bartok's Orchestral Suite No. 1 (Op. 3) and Igor Stravinsky's Scherzo Fantastique (Op. 3),


then


heading


Sulfur


Springs -


and Vallejo-wise with


H.M.P. for the festivities.  Upon return, we take in videos and various adventures -- late that evening, begin composing The Decameron - Third Day: IX. Gillette of Narbonne Craves Bertrand de Roussillon.