February 28 - Inventions

Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo: Tu se morta and

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas: Thy Hand, Belinda / When I Am Laid in Earth for Dictation / Board Harmony with the Theoreticians

after

the

typical

glorious

early-morning

commute and preceeding

the

unquestionably

stimulating

return,

on the 56th day of spring,

high back up 3 to 60 (locally and in Pleasant Hill; 58, Pinole), composing page 12 Ezra Pounds, Op. 263: I. Exile / Return (Ezra / Nehemiah), and orchestrating a second sheet of the Ludwig van Beethoven Rondo in C Major, Op. 51, as Op. 264...

February 27 - Ascensions

To

UC

Berkeley for research re

The Opus Project presents Opus 51: Questionable Practices (8pm, Saturday, March 18, 2017, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA).

Before this,

down the

frosty

freeways and

brry-ful backroads --

in view of snow on Mt. Diablo! --

to

rendezvous

with

the

Music Historians for a romp through Baroque Music I (Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schutz, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi),

and

a

scenic

cross-county to the Cal Music Library.

After,

more

amazing

travels

and

welcome

travails,

ultimately

homeward, on the 55th day of spring, high 57 (locally and in Pleasant Hill) --

San Ramon, 56
Berkeley, 53
Pinole, 59 --

to begin orchestrating Ludwig van Beethoven's Rondo in C Major, Op. 51, as Op. 263 and continue composition of Ezra Pounds, Op. 263: I. Exile / Return (Ezra / Nehemiah) -- page 11...

February 26 - Celebrations

Happy Birthday to Harriet! --

one day early,

actually,

commandeering a cake earlier, and,

before this,

taking the 46th Inner Coast Range North Walk,

which turns out to

correspond with

Esparto's

Almond

Festival,

energizing

the environment

through Capay and beyond on California Route 16. 

As two law enforcer vehicles are parked directly at Yolo County Road 82B,

decide to leapfrog a bit re the ongoing string of strolls,

parking

at

82, and

walking west from there,

adjacent to the transition between Lamb and Blue Ridges

to Garrison Ranch. On the return trip, a state trooper passes, and, lo-and-behold, the squad car is waiting by the parked vehicle upon return. Mercifully, the pedestrian activity is deemed legal, though eccentric, and the reasonably cordial law enforcers are on their way thereafter. 

Repark and continue

walking on to the

intersection of

81;

then, back in the roadster, run the gauntlet through the waning crowds homeward,

diverting on a south / east angled course recapitulating the walks thus far, on 85B, 22, 23, 86A, 25,

87, 26,

the

ever-

eventful

orchardy

88,

29A,

89, 128, and

505. 

54th day of spring, high 59 (Capay, 57), composing page 10 Ezra Pounds, Op. 263: I. Exile / Return (Ezra / Nehemiah) late....