First rehearsal of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's Moving Day show (May 4, Lick Wilmerding Auditiorium), including Harry Bernstein's Sonata for Flute, Oboe, and Piano and Plan B,
John
Beeman's
Sprites,
Davide Verotta's
Dances for Orchestra, Michael Kimbell's Time Does Not Move, Michael Cooke's Incomplete Thoughts: A Passacaglia, and
Martha
Stoddard's
Gait
Changes.
Before
that,
sun-
into-
fog
commute to
Diablo,
Quiz 14 for the Theoreticians,
with musical examples from Philip Glass and Sting,
lunch at Carrows, correcting a few papers and pouring over Opus 4 and SFCCO scores,
and
the
transit
gloria
mundi
of
Franklin Canyon,
El Sobrante Ridge,
Albany Hill (literally El Cerrito),
San Francisco Bay,
the Mission District
(with errands),
and
on
to
Lick-Wilmerding for rehearsal (with intensive score-study in the several hours previous). In late evening, catch up compositionally with Six Enneads, finishing the second movement (9 pages total), print out score (full and piano) and parts of Arnold Schoenberg's Transfigured Night, and email Opus 4 rehearsal schedule
