On this numerically auspicious day, a year and five days have passed away, and today at Diablo Valley College it's Renaissance blind-boy sensation
Conrad Paumann's Mit Ganzcem Willen for Theory dictation and board harmony, plus impressive student compositions -- then orchestration through page 10 of The Gospel According to St. Matthew: II. The People that Walked in Darkness (while hanging around the lab, talking with Doug and Hiraoki) and the annual
San Francisco Symphony opening gala with
Harriet -- report next week in Commuter Times and 21st-Century Music (in print and online at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com [work-in-progress] and 21st-centurymusic.com [archive]).
