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...