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)...