June 15 - Group Portrait


Fifth rehearsal of  


The Decameron - First Day, with this fantastic ensemble of Sarita Cannon, Kate Bautch, Cass Panuska


(and Tressler),


Jill Wagoner, and


Harriet March Page --


the initial one with the amazing Zofo-Duo and Goat-Hall/Alburger-Opera veteran Keisuke Nakagoshi now at the piano,


for a beginning strategy of keyboard-with-videos --


after the usual scenic commute. 


After,


take a flight past a


fire on


Route 4,


just before


Franklin


Canyon,



then surreally-marvelous


I-80,


circumnavigating the


Carquinez on


780,


bombing up homeward


past the past cinders of


several-weeks-ago's


conflagration. 


Beat the heat on this 86th day of summer (on the edge at 89),


out to Murrillo's with Harriet,


then home for William Shakespeare's As You Like It from Kenneth Branagh and an 


almost-equally enlightening Client 9, in reference to Elliott Spitzer (perhaps he should have been treated more civilly in the first of the Vocal Sonatinas...) -- plus composition of page 27 Hamlet, score-study for system 14 re Alban Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, No. 1.