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.