September 12 - Testing the Limits


Quiz 4 for the Theoreticians,


the musical examples drawn from Medieval Organa, the Orkney Islands, Latin Lyrics, Leonin, Richard the Lionheart, Perotin, Italian Secular Dance,


Thomas of Celano, Guillaume de Machaut, and Conrad Paumann.


Before this,


finish editing the 21st-Century Music article on Malcolm Arnold


and


take


the


scenic


sun-and-fog-riddled


morning


commute.


After,



linger with students in tutorial and at the Lab,


lunch,


then



blitz


over 

to


fiery






Marin


to


check those


financial greetings at the post box,


returning


up


101,


over the


Petaluma River,


across the Plain


to


Sears


Point


Mountain and


Lagoon,


beyond Napa Slough


and


River on


37,



and


along


80


in


a


leisurely


fashion


under


the


striking


early-evening


sun.



Eveningwise,


Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in a


2009 San Francisco Opera production, while composing page 24 of At a Medical Depostion and Psalm 102, plus score-study second system re Benjamin Britten's Soirrees Musicales on the 172nd summer day of the year, high 90 (74th that-or-above).


Late night lucky revelations with Rebecca Dreyfus's Stolen (2006), re Jan Vermeer's The Concert (1664)