November 10 - Nothing to Be Done

Like Estragon (the incredibly talented and chamelion-like Meghan Dibble above -- last year in my opera on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot --



who's much more her fabulous-looking self as Nurse / Eurydice in Antigone, here with Alix Jerinic, as Antigone's Handmaid), the day is mostly sitting around, thank goodness, after eight days in a row driving to Berkeley and San Francisco for rehearsals and performances, not that I'm complaining. So it's blog and kinda sorta life catch-up (Antigone pictures new and old at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com, by clicking on Op. 88), and the farthest that Harriet and I travel is to the grocery store and a 2/3 price NYT, not bad.

Right, and orchestration of page 7 for Moses and Aaron: XXI.

August 26 - Another Day

[Mark Alburger - Waiting for Godot: L. What Do We Do Now (after Samuel Beckett)]

ESTRAGON:

Another day done with.

VLADIMIR:

Not yet.

ESTRAGON:

For me it's over and done with, no matter what happens.



More bass clef work in theory, with dictation on Kyrie IV (section I), a few updates on the blog,



including posting of the Chinese Entrance Hymn for the Emperor (c. 1000 BC); evening class is Ancient Music from



Fu Hsi to



St. Ambrose, all on markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com



Left Bank with Aaron, Doug, and Owen -- then home for another orchestrated page (2) of Abraham and Isaac.

June 21 - What Exactly Did We Expect?

Oh, nothing very definite.

A kind of a prayer that it won't take all summer to get this book blog finished (markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com).

A vague supplication to the exigencies of the situation, placing seemingly inumerable pix and recs in their vaguely proper places -- but well placed to be able to teach exclusively in the new mode by Monday.



Just tooting along with the publication preparation for Mice and Men, too -- Act V, Scene 2 B page 6 -- recognizing that a tree is a tree is a tree... and that everyone needs someone...

June 13 - Waiting for Pogo

Nothing to be done when Friday the 13 falls on a Friday this month,



so here's Meghan Dibble (Estragon) and Eliza O'Malley (Vladimir) singing the opening of Waiting for Godot (with more at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com - dated February 1, 2005).




Nothing to be done but watch the beautiful/horrible/incredible documentary War/Dance (re the ongoing strifes in Northern, reaching down to Central, Uganda) with Harriet, be grateful for Crystal's safe return from such striken places as Soroti (which up to several years ago was perceived as far enough south to be secure), and mindful of the perils of the inumerable.



Nothing to be done but prepare page 20 for publication of Mice and Men, Act V, Scene 2. Hm, people waiting....