Maundy Thursday -- down to Pacifica, to rendezvous with violinists Carolyn Lowenthal and Ralph Morrison, violist Marian Taylor, and cellist Elizabeth Morrison (a Swarthmore graduate), at the Morrisons' scenic aerie overlooking the Pacific, listening to them rehearse
Alban Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3, and rehearsing Samuel Barber's Dover Beach, Op. 3.
A pleasure
all around, looking forward to The Opus Project presents Opus 3 (8pm, Saturday, March 30).
Before this,
the
foggy-sunny
transit
to Diablo Valley College, and
Quiz 10 for the Theoreticians,
featuring musical examples drawn from George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Sergei Prokofiev, and Anton Webern.
With no time to spare, head through the Coast Ranges, over the
Bay,
and down viewful
California 1
to
rehearsal.
After,
a
wander
downslope,
then
north
through
San
Francisco,
into
the
semi-
wilds
of
Marin
on
101
and
37,
across
southern
Sonoma,
and
weaving
among
the
spring-
verdant
American
Canyon /
Sulfur
Springs
and
Vaca
Mountains
of
Solano,
homeward to confront the eighth letter of the Russian alphabet ("zheh"), score-study page 9 of Berg's Altenberg Lieder: I, and begin the composition of The Decameron - Fourth Day: Novel 2.
