October 19 - News to Storm Your Heart

Up reasonably early, doing two more pages of orchestration to Moses and Aaron: VIII. Intonation - "Then Moses Called" and producing a transposition of Antigone: XVI. You Think You Knew for Micah Epps (he requests down to Dm from Em, but turns out that a version in Cm is already in the computer, so I bring that, and he likes it).


Rehearsals for both John Billota's


Quantum Mechanic and my



Antigone go very well, despite present company having to cover on piano (Keisuke has a conflict today), and William Loney gets to choreograph



XI. The Spring Is Wound.


Production meeting follows,



while William works with Dalyta on XIX. News to Break Your Heart.



I drop William off at his Oakland place (Harriet goes to a grant-writing meeting in San Francisco); heading home, the setting sun sets off the Lagoon and


North Lagoon Mountains,


and I finish orchestration of M&A: VIII and begin IX. Storm/Tempest - "At Midnight,"



not to be confused with Tempest Storm.

September 28 - Burying Ourselves in the Parts

Here we are for the Antigone photo shoot -- Meghan, Alix, Erin, Michael, Eliza, Kim, Adam, Dalite, Maria, Terrence, Lisa -- amazing! Second vocal rehearsal, now with Keisuke at the piano, and we're moving right along.



Also rehearsal of John Bilata's Quantum Mechanic (with Beth and Michael, above)



and photo shoot for Amy Beth Kirsten's Ophelia Forever (featuring Cary).


The fog rolls in on chilly Berkeley and we dine at La Paz with paella, then home (where it's still 88 in the house), orchestrating the rest of Amazing Joseph: I. I Had a Dream (6 more pages for 7 total).

September 4 - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Music

Trying to send Harriet an updated September Benefit poster, I discover that pdfs can be saved as jpegs (no doubt common knowledge to millions, but definitely news to me), so here's the poster! Also means that other music and text pdfs can be posted on blogspot -- a definite plus, since there's apparently only only a modest amount of available sheet music out there on the web in any form at present..



Also discover that there are a fair number of messages in my gmail account, which I rarely use, among them a gentleman from Houston interested in the Tuba Concerto, so we go over the first seven galleys of the piano-tuba version, will look at orchestral score next week.



In googling for an appropriate tubistic image, also came across the TUBA procedure.



And what's with the matching before and after clothing?



Otherwise, of course, there's Tuba City, memorably memorialized by Ansel Adams in 1941.



Quiz 3 in Theory (Dorian, Minor, Phrygian, and intervals up through 5ths), and almost run out of quizzes, the class is so big, followed by editing a letter of recommend for Tim White, who deserves all high praise (I have him to thank for getting me on myspace and learning how to insert pictures in Word -- again, common knowledge for so many -- and, while he taught me many other things in the classes I've taken with him as a faculty colleague, those above little notions ultimately pointed me in the direction of an Apple Macbook, finally getting a cellphone, starting the five blogs on blogspot, etc....).


Also following is recording the rest (IV-VII) of the instrumental version of The Creation in the lab, to be posted at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com.

Op. 93 THE CREATION (December 3, 2000)
I. In the beginning
II. Let there be a firmament
III. Let the waters be gathered
IV. Let there be lights
V. Let the waters bring forth
VI. Let the earth bring forth
VII. Let us make man


Oh, yes, also recorded first two movements (instrumental versions, as above) of

Op. 97 QUARTET FOR THE BEGINNING OF TIME: ADAM AND EVE AND CAIN AND ABEL (August 17, 2001)
I. Liturgy of Earth
II. Vocalise for the Disobedience at the Beginning of Time

August 29 - Time Is at Its Exercise

Eight pages of orchestration of Israel in Trouble: IV. Fly Away -- Jacob fleeing his homeland and dreaming of the ladder -- Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes: Sea Interlude IV minimalized and modalized.



Make the Marin and East Bay rounds, past Albany Hill.



[West view from Richard Mix's front porch, with the fog coming in (quite a difference from the c. 100 degree heat experienced just inland a few hours previously)]

dropping off CD and score of Antigone to Richard Mix,



who's on location and on for our November shows.



Brief walk near Briones Reservoir in the East Bay Municipal Water District Lands,



then a bit lost (third time today!) before winding up at DVC to record yesterday's finished orchestration of I in T: III. Eyes Dim,


thereafter home, helping Harriet design an E-Goat Newsletter.