September 17 - Birth Astride

Another page of Isaiah: Surely He Has Born Our Griefs and orchestration of The Gospel According to St. Matthew: XI before Quiz 5 for the Theoreticians -- the big one with stacks of bass clef chords re examples from Josquin des Pres, Costantzo Festa, Henry VIII, Louis Borgeois, and Claudio Monteverdi.



Marin errands, paper grading at Celias's, and completion of composing and orchestrating above.

March 26 - Es Is Genug

VLADIMIR:

This is becoming really insignificant.

ESTRAGON:

Not enough.



Finish the orchestration of King David: XIII. The Lamentations of Gilboa, and record that plus



XII. March of David and the Philistines after class.



But first, have to get there, so off we go again to Diablo Valley College Music Theory, for Quiz 10, with excerpts from George Gershwin, Sergei Prokofiev, Anton Webern, and Louis Armstrong. Tutorial with a few students after, including Scott, set up with his reader adjacent to lab computer, which makes for an efficient use of time. Somehow there's also a sufficient interval to take in the sunshine from adjacent to Las Trampas Ridge and



Creek,



before blasting back to Marin, between San Rafael Hill and



San Pedro



Ridge,



over the Pacheco Grade for car maintenance, then home to gather instrumental forces for beginning of KD: XV. Feat Song.

March 11 - Seek and Find

After several more orchestrated pages of King David: I. How Long Grieving Over Saul, arrive at St. Mary's to a doubled class size on a high-school visitation day, and we are graced with additional talented students (pianist, clarinetist, oboist, and singer) for a discussion of Music in the Enlightenment from Frescobaldi to Lully Then it's the old Charles Ives Variations on America: Spanish Variation dictation routine (plus some Chopin, Bizet, and Satie) in DVC Theory, after which the orchestration of KD: I is finished (still a novelty working on music with the laptop at school) and recorded. Beyond is the Berkeley Hillside Club, to drop off the digital projector to Harriet and San Francisco Cabaret Opera for second dress rehearsal of The Marriage of Figaro, then a detour along the frontage road for views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands,



Bay Bridge, San Francisco,



and Emeryville's Pacific Park Plaza and



Watergate Towers, eventually reaching San Francisco for another Scola Prosek Soiree with music by Lisa, Ed, Loren Jones, Davide Verotta,



plus Saul! Saul!: III. O early Piety! and IX. Hide and Seek Ye.

January 14 - Have I Got a Deal for You

San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Board Meeting tonight, and we have a cordial, riotous time (robustly attended, with Erling Wold, Lisa Scola Prosek, Philip Friehofner, David Graves, Michael Cooke, Loren Jones, Davide Verotta, and Rachel Condry) -- taking the title of the concert Free for All -- But for You, $15 and running with it, whereupon Loren takes pictures including above (the red, however, my idea...), one of which is intended tol be photoshopped into some kind of smarmy used carlot scenario.

Before this, another Lisa soiree, with music by Loren, Lisa, and Eduard Prosek, plus three sctions of Samson and Delilah (The Frank Judges) that will be part of Sex and the Bible: The Opera (Part I).



VI. Downfall



VII. Daughter

X. Delilah

Previous to that, first faculty meeting of the new year, with Owen Lee at the helm and all the usual honored subjects, including Doug Michael, Mark Steidel, Rory Snyder, and Monty Bairos -- and shortly thereafter, generate a class list for attendance/grading, etc. and revise the online syllabus for first Music Theory class tomorrow (astounding that it is already time, and further that I'm pretty much ready almost 24 hours ahead of time).



Thereafter, in the lab, where I actually finish the orchestration for S&D: XIII. Disunity (which is likely to be the conclusion of Sex and the Bible Part I], and incidentally a first instance of writing music on the laptop while at school), email the midi over to my favorite lab desktop, and record in Cubase -- an amazingly fast turnaround time in my experience....