August 17 - Orientation


Well, well --


up very early,


feverishly facing the freeways.


First day of the Diablo Valley College Fall 2015 Semester for many,


including Matt Zebley's


History of Jazz class, with our own Theory and Musicianship I starting tomorrow (edifying, however, so experience another introductory approach).


More preparations for the Music Theoreticians -- plus compositional work -- at Magoo's,


then head over to


UC


Berkeley


Music Library for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 32,


followed by late lunch with Carol, talking over same, at


Leila's by the


Bay.

 
Homeward,


relatively


reasonable


petrol ($2.95),


and


another


library


run thereafter -- to edit page 6 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1885 Gustav Mahler,


over videos, on the 168th day of summer: another flame-up day at 106 -- tying with June 12th as the 3rd-highest reading of the season, 168th day of summer (17 days 100-or-more, 63  90+, 103 80-and-beyond) -- highs rather the same and spectacularly different in Pleasant Hill (102) and Pinole (70)....