May 22 - Finale


Final Exam for the Music Historians,


including selections from Ancient and Medieval times,


plus works of Josquin des Pres, J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Steve Reich, George Crumb, Mark Alburger, and Michael Cooke. 


Hopefully much learned (another great group!), and today's wealth of written work certainly contributing to


quite a bit of end-of-semester grading,


on the


52nd day of summer,


again the warmest of the year,


up 1 to 97


(19 days 80+;


 

7 beyond 90)...



San Ramon, 100 [!]
Pleasant Hill, 93
Pinole, 65...


Celebrate


with


another


walk


in


the


relatively elevated country


now from


Compass Point Park,


spurring onto the

Tassajara Ridge Trail,


heading south to Windemere Trailhead Divide. 


Reverse


course


back


to


the


starting


point,


and


proceed

automobilically,


joyously


on


80,


homeward


to


compose page 11 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel II - The Priest of Varlungo Lies with Monna Belcolore,


while taking in the Franz Waxman (1906-1967) Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)...