March 23 - Death and Life

St. Mary's class on Jeremiah Clarke, Antonio Vivaldi, and Georg Philip Teleman; DVC encounter on Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf; then home to orchestrate King David: XIII. March of David and the Philistines (The Death of Saul), and begin same for


XIV. The Lamentations of Gilboa.

March 22 - Which Shall It Be

Home all day, the first in quite a while, review the Oakland show from Friday night for Piedmont Post (also at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com), finish Psalm 27 and orchestration of King David: XI. When the Wicked Came, do entire scoring of XII. Incantation (The Witch of Endor) as well,



send Indre the postcard photos for Dioclesian/Diocletian (markalburgerevents.blogspot.com and goathall.org), which she'll send to press.

March 21 - David, Diocletian, Sex

[Kimberly Anderman, Maria Mikheyenko, Alison Collins]

Finish the composition of Psalm 57 and orchestration of King David: IX. Pity! before madly dashing off to Chamber Arts, arriving at the appointed hour to find that Durand and Harriet's rehearsals have switched, so am off the hook for awhile and able to start instrumentation of KD: X. In Saul's Camp, working luxuriously on the very mobile laptop -- still a notational novelty.

[Indre Viskontas]

Eventually we get around to Alburger music/staging with MIDI tracks (which Harriet likes), then blocking for Purcell and photo shoot.



Lateral the Sex and Delilah, Op. 173, music, hot off the press to Maria, and send her sound files of same. Rain and chill, time to go home,



finish KD: X. and begin composition of Psalm 27 and scoring of KD: XI. When the Wicked Came.

March 20 - What Do We Do Now?

Begin Psalm 57 and the orchestration of King David: IX. Pity!, print up the piano-vocal score of



Sex and Delilah, and head over the



Sulfur Springs Mountains on I-80,



past St. John's Mine Hill,



to where the sun sets



over Marin's



Mt. Tamalpais,



and beyond to Oakland's Paramount Theatre --



an amazing building without and



within --



for a concert by the Oakland East Bay Symphony, featuring principal (and San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra) cellist Dan Reiter,



in a concert including Giuseppe Verdi's Otello: Act I, complete with thunder sheet, the review this Sunday at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, and eventually at 21st-centurymusic.com and The Piedmont Post. During intermission, write another page of composition and orchestration of above.

March 19 - Whirling Deserters

Finish Psalm 55 and the orchestration of King David: VII. O for the Wings of a Dove before the dash to Diablo Valley College and Quiz 9, with excerpts drawn from Charles Ives, Scott Jopin, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky.


Tutorial with Scott, beginning the orchestration of King David: VIII. Dance of the Prophets, then recording KD: II.-VII. in the lab, finishing the above instrumentation, and doing an aural mock-up of same as well.