January 31 - Prime / Retrograde

Forwards

and

backwards with the Music Theoreticians --

another

bright,

ambiguous

day,

back

down to

San Ramon briefly to collect equipment (and ponder the humanities),

then onwards,

amazingly

homeward via

San Pablo Dam and other adventures.

28th day of spring:

high 61 locally and in

San Ramon...

Pleasant Hill, 58

Pinole, 68

... the total temperature tally of the month: 7 Days 60's / 21 Days 50's / 3 Days 40's.  24 Tone Preludes: IX. Serenadis Interruptus, page 7, composed upon return

January 30 - Negotiating

First Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Board meeting of the year, planning already for Fresh Voices XVII: 2017 (8pm, Saturdays-Sundays, August 5-6, 12-13 -- Bay Area Stage, Broadway, Vallejo, CA).

Before

this,

down to

Diablo Valley College,

San Ramon Campus,

to meet the Music Historians

(info for Quiz 2 posted on January 26);

after,

a

run

to

UC

Berkeley

Music

Library

re The Opus Project presents Opus 50: Even Wild (8pm, Saturday, February 25, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco).

27th day of spring,

tied for warmest of year with yesterday --

high 63,

San Ramon, 62
Concord, 61
Berkeley, 65

-- returning

on

Shattuck, Marin, and

80 to compose 24 Tone Preludes: IX. Serenadis Interruptus, page 6, late...

January 29 - Far and Near

The Divisive Egotist bans travel to the U.S. from seven Middle Eastern and North African countries.

So far,

however,

still

legal

driving north

to

16,

eventually

walking from

the intersection of

Yolo County Road 85B,

west

to

Capay

Sign,

part of a series of strolls (39 thus far) heading in the rough direction of Oregon,

returning

via

89

and

505,

this 26th day of spring

(highest temperature of the year thus far --

63 locally and in Winters; 59 Esparto),

to compose,

after errands, page 5 24 Tone Preludes: IX. Serenadis Interruptus...