September 6 - Victory

While checking Google Maps on the iPhone,

a new wireless network appears:

"Harriet" -- and she has succeeded, after hours and hours in the local store and on the phone in re-establishing our internet!  Yes!

Celebrate with Happy Hour at Joe's Creekside Cafe,

returning

for

rather

a

lot

of

videos, in consort with composing page 18 of Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition, on the 166th day of summer, high back up into the 90's (70th such day of the year), specifically 93.

Also continue score-study of Igor Stravinsky's Two Poemes of Verlaine: I, Paul Hindemith's Three Songs: I, and Kurt Weill's Quodlibet -- a second system each... 

September 5 - A Foggy Emptiness

Wake up to no internet,

and the "easy switchover" promised by

ATT

is

anything

but.

After Quiz 3 for the 

Theorists,

Harriet calls to say that the

two-hour morning switch has

still not occurred.

Head

homeward

anyway,

via

major

errands, but with the chaos of a familiar fixit man, and general consternation,

figure it's high time to go to UC Davis Library to reconoiter with scores for Opus 9, namely

Paul Hindemith - Three Orchestral Songs
Kurt Weill - Quodlibet
Samuel Barber - Symphony No. 1
Alan Hovhaness - Piano Quintet
Benjamin Britten - Soirees Musicales

Among the unattainable?

Darius Milhaud - Piano Suite
Dmitri Kabalevsky - Piano Concerto No. 1
Dmitri Shostakovich - Three Pieces for Cello and Piano

Call Erling on the way to, and we determine instrumentation for the fall San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra show

1111 1100 Pf 10111

Though we will most likely have

1123 2200 Pf 10111 -- and, who knows?, perhaps low brass, percussion, and violin II will arise...

Return to street parking in Davis,

then domicileward again,

composing Page 17 of Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition,

in tandem with videos (Santa Rosa not as its unique exotic self, but as anytown USA), on the 165th day of summer, a high of 89 bookending with September 2 several slightly cooler temps.  Despite all the tension, or perhaps because, a very levely evening together, nonetheless, with ecstatic joy.

Also begin score-study of Igor Stravinsky's Two Poemes of Verlaine: I, Paul Hindemith's Three Songs: I, and Kurt Weill's Quodlibet -- a system each...

September 4 - All Will Be Revealed

Vihad and Sia bring in a book of

Persian Music Theory -- almost as esoteric as the c. 850 Musica Enchiriadis,

the Rex Coeli of which is Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board Harmony, followed by a second day of imaginative Student Compositions of Round 1. 

Extensive tutorials and

lunch thereafter.

Forward

and

backward,

returning

to

compose Page 16 of Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition, noting this as the 164th summer day, high 88. 

By

 evening,

out

again

to

Zoli's

for the monthly

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Board Meeting, settingly on a theme of Up in the Air for next year and Fibs and Fairtales for Fresh Voices XIV.