April 13 - Lost in the Sun and Star Treks

Hop over these hills and a bit north, and it's the weekly Berkeley Red Horse (show next Saturday night at St. Gregory's in San Francisco - info at markalburgerevents.blogspot.com) rehearsal at Chamber Arts with Kat, Allen, Kristen, Janet, Eliza, Harriet.



Then a walk south of here on the suburban edge of the Castro Valley Hills,



followed by dress rehearsal of Steven Clark's Amok Time at Boxcar Theatre, 505 Natoma Street San Francisco (show is tomorrow! 8pm with info as above -- shot above is back at Bill's two Wednesdays ago -- by now we're all off book again, of course, but William / Bill! is seemingly still dead by the middle of Act IV, with Carl, Suzanna, Cynthia, and Susan in attendance -- hm, Cynthia and Susan....).


Home via Marin, and cannot resist a drive through the Headlands, so here's a portrait in fog from Photo Booth in the MacBook,



and sun,


with the stratus temporarily bypassing Kirby Cove in this view west,


but pouring over the highlands of adjacent Hawk Hill nonetheless,


making a beeline behind the parking lot toward the Golden Gate Bridge (eye, sir!).



Driving up to the viewpoint,


the scene east causes one to see doubles,


whether the panorama including the north tower (!) and stretching toward Mt. Diablo,


or the, shall we say, Two Towers (but neither JRRT nor NYC)



nirvanaingly framing the City.



Home again at leisure, watching a French mystery with Harriet and preparing the sixth page of the Triple Fugato section of Mice and Men Act V Scene 1.

April 9 - Wilderness of Music

Morning write-up for markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, music which somehow brings to mind the Wilderness of Rocks in Joshua Tree National Monument.

Dictation and harmony is the Bed scene from Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach --

Fm/C Eb/G C/G D

which could very well be C: iv64 bIII6 I64 II (V of V) --

followed by keyboard exercise of 12-bar blues derived from Muddy Waters's Hoochie-Coochie Man.


Home writing up Philip Glass, as above, then updating markalburgerevents.blogspot.com re upcoming Steven Clark Star Trek show on April 14 and


The Red Horse program the following 19, plus listening to John Adams (On the Transmigration of Souls), Edvard Grieg, Charles Ives, Dmitri Shostakovich (Symphony No. 8), Richard Wagner, Ralph Vaughan Williams (Symphony No. 2).


Prepare for publication the second page of the Triple Fugato of Vengeance from Act V, Scene 1 Mice and Men (some of this was sketched out on the Appalachian Trail, on the way to Mt. Katahdin).

Have to also get The Bald Soprano: Overture ready for tomorrow to give to Nora Lee at Marin Symphony.