May 31 - Play It Again

Another year for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,

now celebrating our 10th anniversary, and much of the day is given over to all matters SFCCO, after dispensing with the days pdf and compositional activities (Crystal Series 15 and Psalm 97 8).  Make ready parts and score for both Igor Stravinsky's Greeting Prelude and Mark Alburger's Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp ("Family") ---

then

blast

forth

into

the

work-a-day / magical

world

down / up / over

the

beauteous / bounteous / bustling

freeways to

Lick-Wilmerding School for rehearsal of

John Beeman - Collage

Sheli Nan - "Saga" Overture

Michael Kimbell - Concertino for Clarinet

William Severson - The Mystic Trumpeter

Martha Stoddard - Points of Reference

Samuel Ostroff - Academy

John Cage - 4'33"

Igor Stravinsky - Greeting Prelude

Mark Alburger  - Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp ("Family")

Davide Verotta - Solar Wind II

Home late, as is Harriet from a Weill performance, but finish an 11th-hour request for a last-year student's recommendation, posted in the dead of night.

May 30 - Racing, Winding

Pdf of Crystal Series, page 14,

and

down

the

windy

golden

corridor

to

John Bilotta's for work re

Goat Hall's upcoming

Kurt Weill Happy End

show,

lateraling over to Diablo Valley College to record a new mix of The Little Prince: I. Moonlight with a combined Garishtone-Tritone Orchestra,

concluding

with

a

loop

through San Pablo

and

northwest

past

the

typical

prospects

to

an

evening

including composition of Psalm 97 7, receiving welcome email messages re upcoming events, signing off Grove edits to the American Baroque article, with Harriet arriving back late after another rehearsal.

May 29 - Leaps of Faith

Happy 25th birthday to the adventurous Crystal, about to leap ahead to Harvard Divinity School.

As she is booked for another all-day adventure,

the best we can do is follow suit (albeit quite modestly) with a little outing of our own,

returning,

seemingly for the first time in five or more years to local Lagoon Valley Park (the been-there-done-that of the intervening years having taken us mostly to the Pacific, farther-afield Coast Ranges, and the Sierra).

So,

parking the car with Harriet,

we proceed

down the south shore

and

then the north of this artificially enhanced marshland

(whose negligent maintenance embodies the town council's indifference to precious open space, as the governing body is hellbent to destroy the lower half of the valley in development, which, to this point, has been spared only by indifferent economic times),

surrounded by

impressive prominences.

Homeward thereafter to do the next pdf (Crystal Series, page 13) and compositional (Psalm 97 6) work.