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...