February 5 - Bright Spots on the Line
Barely enought time, on yet another bright-sunshiny day, to do the 21st-Century Music update before heading out the door with Harriet,
past
smoke
over the Sulfur Springs Mountains
towards Vallejo,
to
San Francisco
for coffee, etc. at
Chat's
and
another
Thick
House
Studio
Kurt
Weill
Threepenny
Opera
rehearsal, now with our full cast once again
(Zoltan DiBartolo [Mack the Knife],
Mark Alburger [Mr. Peachum / Tiger Brown],
Harriet March Page [Mrs. Peachum],
Sibel Demirmen [Polly Peachum],
Michelle Jasso [Jenny Diver / Lucy Brown], and Allison Lovejoy [Piano]),
making it all the way through the dialogues and music (the latter including Tango Ballad
and
Jealousy Duet], much memorized.
We depart as Michelle and Allison continue in another capacity with
Claude Debussy,
under a mix low-slanting
sun
and clouds,
up
280
and
the
beautiful
80 corridor,
with
errands, to do more updates, now finishing the pdf of Street Songs with the fourth-and-final page of XIV. You Ain't Seen, plus composing a second measure for Psalm 87 "God Built the Town on a Hill" (after Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 2 ["Mysterious Mountain"]) and a ninth sheet re The Decameron.
By nightfall, blog space to spare @ 65 MB of the 1024, with a budgeted usage to this point of 72...