June 24 - The End of the Tunnel

More piano books printed, Music History class from



Ancient Iraq (c. 3500 BC) to



Angola (c. 500 BC),



Keyboard folks black-note major pentatonic (Amazing Grace) and G-major two-hand arpeggiations (+ some 12-bar blues). Time for the weekly Marin jaunt, through the sunny Caldecott towards a cloudy west end,



the stratus threatening Mt. Tamalpais,



protecting the blue skies of San Rafael. Pick up



July 2009 issue of 21st-Century Music (online at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and soon at 21st-centurymusic.com) at the printers, rendezvous with the post box and Celia's, then home past



Sears Point



Mountain,



the Sulfur Springs Range



St. John Mountain



Ranch,



Sentinel Peak,



the Lagoons and



North Lagoons,



to begin orchestration of The Opera of Daniel: III. The Fiery Furnace.

January 27 - Alarming, Gracious

Amazing Grace, after



John Newton for dictation (although we do it in C), and a renewal of the annual parking permit -- the campus law enforcer asks for my license, which of course I have never memorized until now, to a pattern of

Do
Re Re Me
Te Te Do

Rhythm

Long
short-short-long
Short-short-long

Full house for the evening Music Literature class -- extra chairs hauled in again, folks sitting at the front of the class room -- and thereafter working on the license plate theme in a J.S. Bachian prelude-and-fugue context, plus to more pages of orchestration for Babe Ruth: IV. Daybreak Dance / Feria (Turn Aside).