October 2 - Biding Time Palindromically

Help Harriet a bit in the morning with press shots for Antigone (Maria Mikheyenko and Erin Lahm as Guards above), then



Quiz 7 for the Theoreticians, with examples drawn from J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Franz Gruber, and Frederic Chopin; and recording Amazing Joseph: II. Meanwhile, Judah in the lab thereafter.



Watch the Biden-Palin debate with Harriet, while catching up with the newspapers and beginning the orchestration of AJ: III. Now the Ishmaelites (Potiphar's Wife), which is finished late (17 pages, cruising in the second half, since the piece is palindromic [!] -- inspired by Igor Stravinsky's mirror deluge in The Flood)

October 1 - Rondo a la Amazing

Finish the orchestration of Amazing Joseph: II. Meanwhile, Judah in the late morning, late afternoon, and late night.



In the intera, it's Frederic Chopin midday in Theory and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die Tote Stadt at SF Opera in the evening -- report of latter in 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com next Monday and beyond at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print for Commuter Times and 21st-Century Music.

September 29 - Target Practice

W.A. Mozart Sonata in C, K. 545, for dictation, harmony, and keyboard-solfege in Theory, then to the lab for longer than expected recording Amazing Joseph: I. I Had a Dream. After this, it's a fly up the freeway to U.C. Davis to search and rescue Aaron Copland's Music for the Theatre for orchestrational advice in II. Meanwhile, Judah -- an amazing story of coitus interuptus and father / daughter-in-law liaisons -- did Luigi Pirandello travel the latter path in writing Six Character in Search of an Author? Hard to say, kid.....



Before this, write the press release for the San Francisco Composers Orchestra Moving Targets concert (November 8, 2008), posted soon at markalburgerevents.blogspot.com, and write the review of Stuart Wallace's The Bonesetter's Daughter, on 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and soon at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print.



Evening is given over to orchestration of A section of Meanwhile, plus work on the



Opera Apocalypse! post card for Goat Hall / San Francisco Cabaret Opera and Harriet (which includes Antigone, above from the photo shot yesterday at Chamber Arts House in Berkeley).