Showing posts with label Vaca Mountains. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

March 25 - More About My Exciting Commute


By the number of pictures of the I-80 / 680 corridor, one might be led to believe that I love my commute, which I pretty much do.

But there are limits.


After Theory dictation from The Wind God (specifically the 12-bar My Little Finger Blues) plus intriguing compositions from Cecilia and Joel, head back home, print up some Music History: Volume III copies, head back out, teach evening course (works by Alban Berg through Dmitri Shostakovich, not quite making it through all the rep... so we'll continue next week), extended chat with Lamar Johston and Brian Perry over the vagaries of life,



head out to Left Bank with Owen. It is at this point that the mind grows foggy: upon arriving home, no laptop. Strong recollection of having taken it into restaurant, fuzzy notion of thereafter. Try calling -- no answer. Go back, on the off chance that someone's cleaning the place on the graveyard. Dark establishment locked tight, peering in... perhaps that's a computer case on the floor where we sat. Case the joint, finding the service entrance, still no luck.


Home, orchestrating first couple of pages of Variations on Americana, figuring I may as well be productive, as slumber is not forthcoming.

Friday, February 1, 2008

February 1 - Symphony of A Thousand Tasks

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1: III ("The Huntsman's Funeral") (Frere Jacques in D Minor) for dictation today.

Do Re Me Re Do (repeated) Me Fa Sol (repeated)

Sol Le Sol Fa Me Re Do (repeated) Sol Sol Do (repeated),

Lunch with Harriet at local Italian joint, with gray views of the Vaca Mountains -- one only imagines that above they would look more like below (but probably not, since this photo is no doubt a summer fog shot),



then really beginning to write the Music History text at markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com, with medieval chapters on Jehan, Philippe de Vitry, Guillaume de Machaut, Jacopo da Bologna, and Francesco Landini; plus putting up info and pics re Op. 15 Three Places in America through Op. 24 Orpheus Cycle at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com.

Another page (7) of score preparation for Mice and Men, Act V 1C "Jus' Feel That Hair", too.