December 10 - Yee Haw!

While Harriet's out on a job in Oakland, finish the orchestration of Samson and Delilah: IX. Defeat (Ass's Jaw), and then record it, with the complete VIII. Death (Lion), after class in the lab.

Between, we have Sheyda, Carissa, and Matthew present two dictations and a board harmony -- J.S. Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring and Leo Delibes Coppelia waltz excerpt -- amazing number of art-music excerpts given by the theoreticians this semester (adding these two to the Smetana, Mussorgsky, and Shostakovich earlier).



Home for a spell improvising on the Camille Saint-Saens S&D love/betrayal scene, and play same plus The Ten Commandments / Seven Commandments movement from Moses and Aaron / Animal Opera (take your pick) for Lisa Scola, Ed, and Tom Prosek, plus Davide Verrotta and David Graves (unlike Dr. Seuss we have a reasonable number of Daves).

San Francisc Composers Chamber Orchestra Board Meeting follows, and we work so efficiently that we break early, and Michael kindly helps with the new Sibelius program. Home via Marin, staying up late to begin S&D: X. Delilah on the new-set up on the laptop. Very welcome, a bit challenging, and long overdue.

September 25 - Limit on the Late Last Suppers

Do the orchestration of The Passion According to St. Matthew: IV. Now As They Were Eating, and am a bit late to class for Quiz 6 (Baroque harmony) -- must have been something while eating... Afterwards record Cubase versions of early sections of PASM, restricted to movements I-IV, and rendezvous with Eileen Meredith and Harriet at Chevy's on Van Ness,



before attending the San-Francisco-Opera-commissioned Stewart Wallace / Amy Tan Bonesetter's Daughter, which features a meal at a Chinese restaurant in February 1997 where the protagonist's mother has a stroke -- report which will run next week at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and later for Commuter Times, 21st-Century Music, and 21st-centurymusic.com -- before returning home to a c. midnight repast.