October 1 - New First

Initial rehearsal for San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's Tales of the Wanderers (8pm, Saturday, October 10, 2015, Performance at Park Presidio UMC, San Francisco, CA), including

Martha Stoddard      
     Horse (2013)

Allan Crossman      
     Impromptoodle (2015)

Mark Alburger      
     Sejong the Great, Op. 235 (2015)
          I.  Early Life (Going Away Through the Arirang Mountain Pass)
          II.  Achievements (Changbu-Taryeon Entertainer)
          III.  Literature (Chung-Sun-Gok Clear-High)
          IV.  Hangul Alphabet (Jindo Arirang Island)
          V.  Death (Milyang Eastern)
          VI.  Relations (Monggeumpo Harbor)
          VII.  Family (Parangsae Blue Bird)
          VIII.  Official Titles (Sae Taryeong Bird Song)
          IX.  Depictions (Sang-Rung-San Buddha Prayer)
          X.  Portrait (Sijo-Chang Courtesan)
   

Lisa Scola Proek      

     Lucaria (2015)

          I. Overture

          II. Barcarolle

Michael Kimbell      
     Golden Gate Barcarole (2014)

Stardust          
     A la recherche des danses perdues (In Search of Lost Dances, 2015)

          I. Danse des fées distraites [Dance of the distracted faeries]
          II. Danse de la Cour des Miracles [Dance of the Court of Miracles]
          III. Danse des âmes tourmentées [Dance of the tormented souls]
          IV. Danse des hiboux magiques [Dance of the magical owls]
          V. Danse des escargots véloces [Dance of the rapid snails]
                    VI. Danse des papillons géants [Dance of the gigantic butterflies]
                    VII. Danse des feuilles tremblantes [Dance of the fluttering leaves]
                    VIII. Danse des ronds dans l'eau stagnante [Dance of the ripples in still water]
                    IX. Danse des grenouilles qui croassent [Dance of the croaking frogs
                    X. Danse des libellules suspendues [Dance of the hovering dragonflies]
                    XI. Aléatoire [Free-for-all]

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Verily a very busy day,

beginning with the gauntlet

commute,

Frederic Chopin's Piano Prelude No. 4 in E Minor as Dictation / Board Harmony for the Theoreticians,

plus imaginative Composition 2's

and

Quiz 7

(the musical examples drawn from the works of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Chopin),

paperwork at the 

Arts Division,

printing of Sejong at CyberCopy,

lunch and paper-grading at Magoos,

research 

at

UC Berkeley

Music Library re The Opus Project presents Opus 34 (8pm, Saturday, October 24, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA),

then

off 

to

practice. 

Home late,

editing page 34 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1888 Alma Maria Schindler, Op. 232, No. 10, on the 223rd day of summer, high back up 11 to 81 (144 days 80+) -- 72 in SF...