April 8 - Light in the Dark

Finish the orchestration of King David: XXIV. Rock and Strength and the composition of Psalm 18 before late pilgrimage to DVC, via Eden clouds, for dictation on Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms: II. Psalm 23 / Psalm 2,


then in the lab to record KD: XXIII. XXIII. Absalom, Absalom! (Absalon Fili Mi) (Sibelius) and XXIV. (Encore).


It's a Marin day, with benefits, beyond Mt. Tam, to Celia's paper grading,



then San Francisco for Lisa Scola Prosek soiree (music of Lisa, Loren Jones, + King David: O for the Wings of a Dove, The Witch of Endor, and Song in the Forest of Ephraim) and SF Composers Chamber Orchestra Board Meeting, where Moses Sedler joins us at the home of Erling Wold (above). Home finally, beginning instrumentation of KD: XXV. Census and Plague.

March 18 - Foggy Fuzzy Fecundity

Can spring be far away with the return of the fog?



It is close upon mountain silhouettes,



with all manners of flowery Edens



springing to life; after dreaming-composing several more pages of Psalm 55 and the orchestration of King David: VII. O for the Wings of a Dove; awakening with limited minutes; then hastening to St. Mary's for an intimate listening of Henry Purcell through Jeremiah Clarke; and DVC with film clips of W.A. Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, and Igor Stravinsky.



Composition grading follows in Marin, with post-box financial greeting, and home to a flying collapse beyond Sonoma's Route 37



Red Barn.