August 2 - Shady Deal

Lunch at Chevy's with Harriet, another working repast, finishing grading for piano class,



in palm-shaded sunlit view of the Vaca Mountains and



English Hills, returning home for much merriment, including a pool jaunt and completed orchestration of Esther Xerxes: X. Proclamation Issued (19 pages total).



Also put up information on Saul! Saul!, Mice Suites, King David, Solomon, Elijah Rock, The Opera of Daniel, Buddha's Little Instruction Book, Symphony No. 3 ("Recycled"), and Esther Xerxes up at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com, including the first half of the Tritone Orchestra recordings of Esther.

January 31 - Diocle[t](s)ian

Up seemingly ridiculously early, and out the door with H (at least the traffic is congenial at such hour) for our first rehearsal at Chamber Arts, in Berkeley, San Francisco Cabaret Opera's production of Henry Purcell's Dioclesian and the ten-minute version of my Diocletian, with Harriet March Page, Kathleen Cornelius, Maria Mikheyenko, Erin Lahm, Marilyn Pratt, Allison Collins,


Shauna Fallihee, Annemarie Ballinger, Kimberley Anderman, and Alexandra Jerinic -- all sounding wonderfully in these early stages of both pieces, with Skye at fantastically at the piano, and an-across-the-hall occasional-serenade of



impressive students in the J.S. Bach Orchestratl Suite No. 2,



complete with dog, whereupon (after dropping Alix off at Ashby Bart) we head home, coming up, between the two of us, with the intriguing notion of treating the little D as an intermezzo, with the pillars of Purcell on either side (this will actually be appropriate story chronology, too). Pleased, we have the rest of another well-appreciated (but potentially disaster-draughty inducing) sunny afternoon at leisure, which includes the orchestration of page 8 of Babe Ruth: IV. Daybreak Dance / Feria (Turn Aside).