November 9 - Food for Thought

Finish the publication-preparation and visual libretto for Sex and the Bible: The Opera (Part I), with 7. Amazing Joseph: VII. Take My Youngest Son, VIII. I Am Joseph, and IX. Now I Can Die, discovering that Jacob's blessings actually make a bit of pictorial ABA possible.



Wander up to the gym with Harriet, and, metaphorically and in reality, spend most of the time on the treadmill, which, with the iPod iPhone and the



lightboard, is downright amusing. Orchestrate through page 12 of The Gospel According to St. Matthew: XXVII. The Sower upon return.

November 8 - Fun and Games

All day at home with Harriet, engaged in the simple and not-so-simple affairs of life, including page 10 of The Gospel According to St. Matthew: XXVII. The Sower orchestrated, plus publication-preparation and visual libretto to Sex and the Bible: 7. Amazing Joseph: III. Now the Ishmaelites (Potiphar's Wife) and



V. Pharaoh Had a Dream.

November 7 - Adventurous Listening

The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Haunted House Science Fiction Quiz Show turns out to be quite a concert, enthusiastically received by a capacity crowd at Oakland's Chapel of the chimes, including

Phil Freihofner - It's Only the Wind
Loren Jones - The Secret Garden
Gerhard Samuel - night and trees
Lisa Scola Prosek - Roma
Davide Verotta - Death Will Come and Have Your Eyes
Erling Wold - Sweet Encumbrance
Mark Alburger - Elijah Ghost
Michael Cooke - Open Ended




There's time fore for orchestration of Page 9 Gospel According to St. Matthew: XXVII. The Sower, printing up the program at Kinko's, and a libation with Harriet at the Tiki Bar at the corner of Pleasant Valley and Piedmont, then aft to greet well-wishers and return to the publication-preparation and visual libretto for



Sex and the Bible: 7. Amazing Joseph: II. Meanwhile Judah Left Home.

November 6 - Prepared, Pianissimo

At Kinko's finally printing up score for Elijah Ghost, plus orchestration of Page 8 Gospel According to St. Matthew: XXVII. The Sower, as the sun crazily sets over the fog-shrouded



Vaca Mountains, with the last light on the



Lagoons and



South.



Dress rehearsal, at the hauntingly beautiful Chapel of the Chimes, for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Haunted House Science Fiction Quiz Show goes well, including Elijah Ghost, and the return leads to publication-preparation and visual libretto for



Sex and the Bible: 7. Amazing Joseph: I. I Had a Dream.

November 5 - Contrasts for Clarion Calls

Page 7 of The Gospel According to St. Matthew: XXVII. The Sower as the weather goes to seed, even as far as Diablo Valley College for Quiz 12 with the Theoreticians, with voice-leading from the last three days, plus a bit of Pink Floyd's Brain Damage (Dark Side of the Moon), somehow appropriate.



Past the grim face of the college's namesake, the light gleams for an instant



beyond Berkeley, in



Emeryville's



high



rises and across



San Francisco




Bay for the third



SF Composers Chamber Orchestra Haunted House Science Fiction Quiz Show rehearsal, followed by a late-night publication-preparation and visual libretto to



Sex and the Bible: 6. Israel in Trouble: X. If It Is Thus.