September 25 - Gratitude


Chiaroscuro sky,


under which (after Varese Octandre score-study, pages 15-16)


one proceeds with alacrity towards


Diablo


Valley College, for Dictation, Keyboard-Solfege, Board Harmony on Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth, finishing up our impressive Round 1 of Student Compositions.


Percolating with ideas,


it's off to


Berkeley once more,


this time to consult the Book of Armaments re Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 6, thinking about the secondary swing theme of the first movement mixing it up in The Decameron - Third Day: I.


Mission


accomplished,


homeward


once


again


(past


typical


returns


of


the


day), the musical tasks including:

Finishing the pdf of Missa California: Agnus Dei (4 pages total)
Doing detail edit of The Decameron - Second Day: VII (17-20)
Composing a second page of Decameron - Third Day: I.



Also write Two Political Interludes, Op. 206, the movements as --

I. Blues
II. Shuffle --

pianistic variants of the old Interrupted Interludes, Op. 7, interior movements, and send off to Jerry Kuderna (to whom the work is dedicated) as email pdf's.