November 10 - Never Forgetting

Provisional finish of the December 2009 issue of 21st-Century Music (21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and soon at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print), with an article on Iannis Xenakis; Theory class is a double dictation on Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach: Bed (four measures) and Roger Waters's Shine On You Crazy Diamond: III -- with discussion on figured bass and keyboard-solfege from John Williams's Star Wars: The Force. Light lunch at



Elephant Bar, grading papers; purchase a 12' audio cable for the Macbook connection to the stereo in the lecture hall; then evenng



Literature class (in spread-out quiz mode above) from the Charles Ives Three Places in New England through Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. After



further



instructions, out with Doug and Owen to the ever-popular new local bistro, then home late to orchestrate page 13 of The Gospel According to St. Matthew: XXVII. The Sower.

January 25 - Quickie

Ah, where do these three-day weekends go? ... obviously we know, but there it is, updating 21st-Century Music (items and recordings for 3/09) at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com while Harriet's at another Marriage of Figaro rehearsal (they didn't quite get betrothed as above),



eventually finishing the orchestration (all four pages total) of Babe Ruth: III. Canaanera; and a full year of blogging on blogspot (here and originally at markalburger.blogspot.com) -- and two years, since starting the picture-less one at myspace. The light gleams for an instant...