July 15 - Making a Search

Music from Ludwig van Beethoven's Fur Elise and Symphony No. 5 through Frederic Chopin's Preludes for the Historians; then Olivier Messian's modes and limited transposition and non-retrogradable rhythms for the Pianists + parallel chords in major and minor including examples from Giocomo Puccini's La Boheme, Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka, the Ben E. King / Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller Stand By Me, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, and Mark Alburger's Mice and Men.

Home soon after, finishing the orchestration of Esther Xerxes: I. CORO - "Bring Queen Vashti" and beginning that of II. ARIOSO - "Why don't you make a search to find some young virgins?"

Why, indeed?



Also, birthday greetings going out to S.A.A. -- with much love.

September 5 - Crystal Clear and Otherwise

Looking forward to getting together with Crystal (who is in town on break, already planning her wedding to Christina this August), next Monday.



This gives me further impetus to get my belated gift recordings together, including preparing the second of the all-Mark-voice Mice and Men CDs, admittedly, purely demo (what with the pitch-shift to approximated Curley's Wife), yet, at times, apparently, purely demonic...

MICE AND MEN, Op. 45
(Complete Works, Volume 10)

Act IV - Crooks's Shack
Act V
Scene 1 - The Barn
(C "Jus Feel that hair")



Scene 2 - The Pond