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.