November 15 - United We Perform

Onward Ophelian, Quantum, and Antigonian Singers (set-up of Antigone with Harriet, Michael, Adam, and Terence above)! Performance of Opera Apocalypse at



Temple United Methodist Church in the far west of San Francisco



under the sign of the cross on a Saturday night (joined by Steph, in the southern crossed Sunset district, where we actually see the sunset for a change, on an extraordinarilly balmy night for this locale at the intersection 19th and Junipero Serra.



Great shows all the way around, despite once again no time to practice or sound-check in the new space. Visual cues particularly tight in the latter hal fo of Antigone. Before this, begin orchestration of Joshua Fought the Battle: II. Shall We Gather (combining Aaron Copland's At the River with Charles Ives's setting of the same, plus the latter's Symphony No. 4: I).

November 5 - Rehearsals Forever

The day is a blur of post-celebratory sentiments and positive presentiments for the upcoming triple bill of Amy Beth Kirsten's Ophelia Forever (above, with Terrence Bennan [Hamlet] and C.A. Jordan [Ophelia / Mad Mermaid]), John Bilotta's Quantum Mechanic, and my Antigone (info at goathall.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com)



Orchestrate first two pages for Hear, O Israel section of Moses and Aaron (inspired by the finale to Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor From Warsaw, depicted here in the Oskar Kokoschka portrait), dictation in Theory on Hosanna from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar (we quip, Hosanna Obama! -- all above sounding terribly religious), new recording of M&A: 17 plus the beginning of Hear. Quick zoom to Marin for paper grading at Celia's and recompense at the postbox (where gas is $2.38 on Second Street in San Rafael), over the now-$6 Golden Gate Bridge for rehearsal of OF and QM (totally unable to find any copies of any newspapers in this triumphant day after the election), followed by reverse course and collapse.