October 31 - Away on a Hallowed Evening

Off to San Francisco International Airport toward the wee hours beyond Halloween,

first on the

seventh deck

(hour? month? doctors? hundred dollars?)

of

Long-Term Parking,

then (via a relatively easier security check, thanks to a promotional and policy changes)

the

(computerly and even science-fictionally 2001: A Space Odysseyianly) well-appointed terminal, awaiting

flight to Philadelphia for Swarthmore College's fourth-annual Student-Alumni Composer Concert. 

Before this, first rehearsal at Thick House for

San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's Fellow Travelers show,

 including Mark Alburger's Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"),

featuring Eytan and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman,

and Eduard Prosek's  

The Curse.

The

day

of

All Hallows Eve

begins

with

Quiz 11 for the

Theoreticians,

with musical examples drawn from Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, John Cage, Richard Rodgers, Jester Hairston, and Richard Berry. 

A quick trip back to gather music for the show (Peter Schickele's Dream Dances and the Alburgerian Portraits of Three [Flute] Players,

then

a

meandering

course

to

more

dreams

and

delusions,

the weather finally warming up again (high 73, for the first summerlike interval since The Opus Project presents Opus 10 on October 26, and the 214th such of 2013).

though a bit cooler, as is typically the case, in

San Francisco

(a just-cresting-summer 70).

October 30 - Making Selections

With Harriet to the local library, stocking up on hopefully as mind-boggling documentaries as last time,

beginning with an anthropological one over the composition of page 15 for Communist Manifesto.

More composing with the Theoreticians as well, taking in fascinating ones by Cody,

Eric, and

Robbie.

Scenic added to

sonic excellence,

before

and

after,

with

the

daily

to-and-

fro,

errands

and

bibliotheca.