February 22 - On High
Page 31 of The Decameron - Third Day: VIII composed,
then out the door and
down the capricious corridor
to
Berkeley,
catching
the
tail end of a
Jerry Kuderna
Chopin (et al?) concert and confirming his participation in Opus 2.
Next, through the Cal campus
and
over
the
hills
to
Orinda
Canyon,
the
inner
East Bay,
and
Pleasant Hill's
locales we go,
lunch and printing at Cyber Copy,
then to Diablo Valley College for the monthly rehearsal of
The Opus Project Ensemble:
the repertory this month including Igor Stravinsky's The Shepherdess (Op. 2, No. 1, featuring Kate Bautch), Anton Webern's In Swift Light Vessels Gliding (Op. 2), and the beginning of Benjamin Britten's Phantasy (Op. 2) --
meeting thereafter with Sarita Cannon as her pianistic understudy in Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung, Op. 2, No. 1. Home late.