May 1 - Then and Now


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home all day with Megan and Harriet, composition page 12 Raising Messiah, finishing No. 4 Rag He's a Barefoot, Tangled (3 pages total).  60th day of summer, high tying yesterday and April 27's 91 (third at 90+, 18th at 80-or-more).  Also finish Totem Variations, Op. 238, with theoretically a Stravinskian Pandiatonicsm or Hindemithian Overtone deal, but, by now, this piece seems to have gone its own way.  Finally, seems appropriate on the day after the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War's end to begin Saigon Agonistes, Op. 240, with I. Dance of the Marines, based on Hindemith's The Demon, with a bit of Swing and Twelve-Tone consciousness, perhaps Crumb, Handel, Rock, and aspects of The Passion According to St. Matthew and Camino Real.  Will hold off on writing any more of this for an interval, however....