July 17 - Music of the Starry Day

Music History class gets up to the music of George Crumb (b. 1929), with one week (including special presentations) to get to the present, which, for now, would suggest composers born in the 80's and perhaps even 90's by now (if we count little creative folks like Lauren Romano -- b. 1999).

Home, with more work on markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com and preparing for publication Mice and Men Act V Scene 2 F page 3.

June 5 - Our Crumb Camino Carillon Company

Some have



R. Crumb


but we particularly go for George and company, even though a Google fight would put them respectively at 561,000 to 237,00 -- actually would not have been surprised at an even greater disparity...



Finish up reconstructing an old back issue (January 2005, featuring an article on the Complete [G.] Crumb Project ongoing from Bridge Records) of 21st-Century Music at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, soon at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print. Off to San Francisco again for another back-to-back SF Composers Chamber Orchestra and the Saint Gregory's choir -- and great improvement occurs on both Camino Real: Block 4 and Variations on Americana, with other works proceeding apace as well.



Inspired to begin another piece (there seem to be a few of these this vacation), Op. 164 Alphabetic Homage[inization]s with III. Crumb Carillon, a sound-file superimposition of the two versions of GC's Easter Dawning on Bridge, eventually at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com.