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...