A particular favorite topic day for Theory: Inversions and Bitonality, with examples from Stravinsky's Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring --
delivering the week's quizzes at the absolute last minute,
via email, lab print-out, office xeroxing.
Head
to
UC
Berkeley
Music Library thereafter, a long time obtaining on of the below from "Ask at Circulation" "Case X", congenial chat with one of the reference librarians while waiting, further score-rounding up, and, barring other possible options available on this particular day, judicious photography, re
Dmitri Shostakovich
The Bolt, Op 27 (1931, once again)
Benjamin Britten
Hymn to St. Cecilia, Op. 27 (1942)
Gyorgy Kurtag
Quasi una Fantasia, Op. 27, No. 1 (1988)
Double Concerto, Op. 27, No. 2 (1990)
George Crumb
Night of the Four Moons (1969)
Philip Glass
Einstein on the Beach (1975)
Knee Play 2
Knee Play 4
Oliver Knussen
Two Organa, Op. 27 (1994)
Thomas Ades
Mazurkas, Op. 27 (2009)
Homeward
via
Albany, Pinole,
Hercules,
780.
680,
80... completing the instrumental parts for Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of 3) Women: XVI. Margo (Woman from Paris). High, back to a springy 69 (the tally since January 1 as 16 Days 70's, 41 Days 60's / 12 Days 50's), and the first precip of the month (.09, for a total, from the rain season beginning July 1 of 15.93).
