September 30 - Open


Up early,



out the door past


Elkhorn and


Sentinel


Peaks,


Lynch Canyon,


Sulfur Springs


Mountains,


St. John Mine Mountain Ranch,


Napa


Marsh,


Sears Point, 


Petaluma


Plain,


towards


Mount Tamalpais


United Methodist Church to check out the scene.


An intimate gathering,  


welcoming new members, with a mixture of traditional and popular idioms, talking to a number of musicians / parishioners thereafter.


Thereafter, re-visit Westminister, finding Barbara Rowe again in her office for a follow-up chat,


then


to First Presbyterian Church of


San Rafael, updating on the phone with Harriet, Bette, and George.  Lingering with the latter two results in being well-placed to meet one of the new pastors here, and we have another cordial and informative interchange.  Decide to return in seven days for FPCSR early service, WPC late, plus Mount Tamalpais -- followed the week after by attending First Pres late, in addition to Tam.


A


present,


reverse


course


through


familiar


territory for musical tasks awaiting on the homefront --

Finish score-study Varese's Octandre, pages 25-26
Fifth-page pdf for Lot in Life: I. Lottery
Finish detail edit of The Decameron - Second Day: VIII (17 total)
Compose DTD: I (7)
Email Ecclesiastes Tropes: V-VII to Debby How

-- on another


warm day at the end of


a


hot


summer.

September 29 - Buzz


At last an unscheduled day - so, schedule it up with more musical madness --

Score-study Varese's Octandre, pages 23-24
Fourth-page pdf for Lot in Life: I. Lottery
Detail edit of The Decameron - Second Day: VIII (6-10)
Compose DTD: I (6)

-- bookending a blitz to


the barber's, adjacent to an Octoberfest,


as well as various errands,


returning for more colorful events with Harriet.


Amongst the purely technical tasks of the interval, learn how to move around accents in Finale -- and at somepoint near this finally figure out how to simply select notes in the program (without having to specify rhythm -- essential in tuplet figuations and, as usual, not at all intuitive... but, once it's divined, it works)...

September 28 - Tomorrow Is Another


Daytime hours devoted to typical musical adventures --

Score-study Varese's Octandre, pages 21-22
Third-page pdf for Lot in Life
Begin the detail edit of The Decameron - Second Day: VIII (1-5)
Compose more DTD: I (5)

-- and


for


the


evening,


more,


in


the


form


of


the


 monthly


Goat Hall Productions Board Meeting,


wending


one's


way


down


the


freeways, catching up with Harriet and company at Chamber Arts in Berkeley, where much constructive work is done.


Return home to finally notice that H has nicely Memlingized (Hans Memling [1430-1494] - Angelic Consort [1485]) the couch...