April 18 - Future Tense


Late night at UC Davis Library,


researching for Opus 5, including the tracking down of Hindemith's Funny Songs in Swiss-German Dialect, and finding that neither versions of the complete works of Sergei Prokofiev is so.



The day starts with the


morning


jaunt


to


Diablo Valley College for


Music Theory Quiz 13, Figured Bass, with excerpts drawn from works of Philip Glass, Roger Waters, and John Williams --


and,


in the return,


checking out the view from the new


Route 12 East ramp from I-80,


the afternoon / early evening given over to errands, second-page second movement of Six Enneads for Voice and Orchestra (after Plotinus), Op. 212,  seconding the 29th letter of the Russian alphabet ("i"), and emailing out the variant scores / parts for Poems on Crane: The Wayfarer to Opus 4 players.