March 10 - Live Poets Society

Poetry reading at 505 Idiolexicon show (Boxcar Theatre, San Francisco),


with Kenneth Goldsmith (aka Kenny G -- the DJ, not the sax player, a confusion played upon)


and Denise Newman, both of whom deliver amazing texts, the former often with found material ranging from hilariously poignant mis-sent letters to menacingly growling last- will-and-testament, the latter with emotively evocative word associations and re-assemblages.


I serve as modern mugging music sandwich,


with the complete live one-performer-version premiere of L.A. Stories, assisted by MacBook multitrack midi and multiple Mark multiphonics from Cubase and GarageBand, four stepladders, two speakers, coats/robes, hats/wig, and toys (recordings at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com, op. 50) --


with thanks to Elliot Harmon and company for putting the show together.


Previous to this, Kurt Weill for dictation in Theory,


first eight bars of The Ballad of Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera.

March 5 - On Beyond

For Theory class, Igor Stravinsky does it again -- harmonically, theoretically -- in the boffo big chords and twisted melody (A: Re Me Do Re Me Do Re Me Do Me Sol Fi) of


The Firebird (1909): Infernal Dance of King Kashchei and



the beyond mere major-key Finale, the final system of this transposed version (of two excerpts) as dictation --

Discounting drone (pedal) bass, with bass line mirror solfege of C: Do Ra Re Fi Re Ra Do

and chords I bII6 II6 #IVB II6 bII6 I.



Performances of Mike Stubblefield's intriguing second composition on guitar and piano, with flamencoesque flourishes and 3+3+3+3+2+2 rhythms, plus L.A. Stories: Part 2. Business As Usual: IIC. Information Wanted



which will be performed Monday, March 10, at Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco (info at markalburgerevents.blogspot.com).

Home to prepare for publication the fourth page of "I've Done Another Bad Thing" from Mice and Men: Act 5, Scene 1.

February 18 - Nother Napa Notion, Night

Nother noon no-work-day, so nother Napa notion. Takes a while to get out, with car shuttling, etc., but at last passing by on Route 12, the flowers have taken over the valleys,


and the low hills are vibrant,


graced and framed


by trees,

all watched over by the moon.


Have crossed over the the west side of Napa Valley (two walks -- connecting Skyland and Kennedy Parks, crossing the river on Imola -- were taken quite a while back); there's barely enough light, even a bit of fog amongst the radient clouds,


all watched over by the moon,


in redwoodish splendor.

Nacht, wir mussen heim, so home we must go in the night, recording Pretty Little Melody, and soon putting it up at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com with all but one of the rest (somehow the original of The Hell Out of Here from San Fernando Hub is still in manuscript -- have to get it transcribed into the computer soon, and recorded and up thereafter) of L.A. Stories.



This was written just after the Rodney King riots with the found text,

All have fights in the noontime hour
All have rights in the doomtime hour
Pretty little melody gunned down gunned
Pretty little melody

Will be putting all of L.A. Stories up at markalburgerevents.blogspot.com soon, as this will constitute my contribution to the composer-poet night on March 10 at Boxcar Theater in San Francisco -- wish we could also have Kat singing Yonder in the North from Cats, Dogs, and Divas; and Was I Sleeping from Waiting for Godot.