September 15 - Canyons to the Starry Savannas

More John Williams (and no Olivier Messiaen) for dictation today: The Force from Star Wars --

Melody C: Sol Do Re Me Fa Me Sol Sol Do Re Me Sol Me Do Sol Fa

Harmony: i V7 i V i IV, with its nice surprise borrowing (aside from all the normal harmonic minor usages) of IV from the major scale.

Another day of a fair amount of listening: Sergei Rachmaninoff (imagine that), Joaquin Rodrigo, Christopher Rouse (a bit), Tan Dun, Peter Tchaikovsky, Georg Philipp Telemann (whose plethora of compositions evidently do not have a date among 'em, if Grove 1980, Wikipedia, and other available online sources total silence on this point would seem to suggest), Antonio Vivaldi....

Evening class is mostly the older minimalists, including Henryk Gorecki, Arvo Part, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Philip Glass.



The Dalai Lama escapes to India during the Glass score in Kundun (and all of this is back in the news, of course), and we all escape to our respective next destination --



Doug and Owen and our student pianist and I to Elephant Bar, in lieu of an early-closing Left Bank (I with my computer firmly clenched) --



a watering hole of much beauty with the gazelles bouncing about bounteously.


Home late, preparing for publication the second page of second imitative section of Triple Fugato of Vengeance from Mice and Men Act V Scene 1.

April 14 - Wars to Trek Across the Bay

Finished preparing for publication the opening imitative statements of Triple Fugato of Vengeance from Of Mice and Men, Act V, Scene 1 and continuing to the second, then dication and harmony at DVC of John Williams's Star Wars main theme

G: Sol Sol Sol Do Sol Fa Mi Re Do Sol Fa Mi Re Do Sol Fa Mi Fa Re

Harmony: I I64 IV I IV I bVII I


After, a spark from the infinite traccing across the galaxy of the Bay to San Francisco and the Planet Vulcan for Steven Clark's Amok Time / Star Trek opera performance at Boxcar Theatre (505 Natoma), which is a big success, graced by our impressive cast and a couple of impressive poets sharing a triple bill.