November 21 - Open-Book Laboratory of Life
In the DVC Lab, assisting Carol with her orchestrational masterpiece, and grading papers -- the just-completed Quiz 14's of the Theoreticians, plus their Composition 2's...
all
this
before
more
beauty
of
the
morning
commute,
blustery
skies
of
raging
winds,
down the 80
and
680
corridors.
Oh yes,
also substitute teaching for Owen... a brief history of i bVII bIII, or vi V I, with prototypes, examples and variants...
Conrad Pauman - Mit Ganczem Willen
Costanzo Festa - Quando Ritrova
Henry VIII - Pastime with Good Company
J.S. Bach - Fugue in G Minor ("Little") / Cantata 140 ("Wachet Auf"): VIII
F.J. Haydn - Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise"): II
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5: I
Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
Terry Riley - In C
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: BED
Paul McCartney - Yesterday
Roger Waters - Shine on You Crazy Diamond: III
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstare: Hosanna
Thereafter,
head up to the Arts Division for yet more paperwork,
then
buzz
over
(via the
brand-new Caldecott
Bore 4)
to
Berkeley,
researching
Kurt Weill's Recordare and Benjamin Britten's On This Island: IV: both Opus 11's as well as following, of course, plus revisiting Dmitri Shostakovich's String Octet.
Interesting to also discover a new edition of Complete Shostakovich, but, alas, at present, at least, neither really so, though give the second version time.
Upon return, more earth-shaking videos with Harriet, composition of page 51 for Double Piano Concerto ("Fellow Travellers"): III, and finish score-study of Bela Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Door 5 (7 pages total).