July 25 - Errand of We'll See

Back to school to receive outstanding work from students, then dropping off Mice and Men excerpt piano-vocal scores to several cast members, past the Shakespeare Festival Hills,



over to San Francisco, up upper Market Street,



then north on the Great Highway, with views of Mt. Tamapais and Cliff House,



through Lincoln Park with more Tam



plus Golden Gate views,



past the opulence of Sea Cliff,



the residences precariously perched above Lobos Creek,



the Presidio's wonders (including a cockeyed bridge



and de-commissioned chapel),



to pastoral glimples of Marin (St. Vincent's Ranch)



and Sonoma (Sears Point Mountain), home to Act V Scene 2 F page 9 publication preparation.

June 29 - Audition Time and the Singing Is Easy

Here's Keisuke Nakagoshi all ready to begin round two auditions for the 2008-2009 Goat Hall / San Francisco Cabaret Opera season.


Many talented singers -- an even larger number of auditionees than last week, with more to come.


Meanwhile, here are Eliza O'Malley, Kat Cornelius, Harriet March Page, and Keisuke at ease at the end.


A swing up through Marin, past fog clearing from Mt. Tamalpais, and publication preparation of page 7 Mice and Men Act V Scene 2 C upon return.

June 20 - Crystal Reflections

Over the Napa River marsh farmlands and



through the Sears Point Hills to Crystal's out-of-house rendezvous



in San Rafael we go.


Another marathon chat -- about four hours, rife with universal everythings, before driving out of the parking lot



into the palmy night,



brightening for a palming off of publication preparation: Mice and Men, ActV, Scene II B, page 5.

May 14 - We Never Know

Emailing and googling for 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com this morning, Harriet's off to Modesto, and the world is heating up -- hot desert-like wind suggesting temperatures around 100 tomorrow -- if so, would be first of season.

There seems to always come a time here in late spring when one wonders exactly how high it well get as the season progresses, then the fog kicks in at the coast and we see our way clear with slightly more common-practice temps for the bulk of the duration.



Will Wonders Never Cease Department: Nick M. checks in with Edward Elgar (hardly a T. Ed Lawrence of Arabia...) most popular Pomp and Circumstance March for dictation, performing on guitar, in G:

Do Ti Do Re La Sol
Fa Mi Fa Sol Re

with its nicely sequenced second phrase, which we harmonize in standard and non-standard ways.



Fine piece by Nick T. follows (Its a Nick of all Time Signatures day...); following this, home for publication preparation of page 4-5 Mice and Men, Act V, Scene 2, listening to an array of movie and t.v. sound track excerpts (hmm...), and ultimately back out to San Francisco, approaching the Bay Bridge as the sun sets behind Marin's Mt. Tamalpais to the northwest,



for San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchesra Board Meeting at Erling's (where we decide to put another piece on the show June 7 show [markalburgerevents.blogspot.com] -- Block 4 from Camino Real, with its serendipidous John Philip Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever quotes),


with the city radiant.