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...