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.
