June 30 - Wide Open Spaces

Back to

Western Dental --

the old one-two --

on the 91st day of summer,

high up a tick to 96, with the composition of page 6 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady accomplished...

June 29 - Below the Heights

Errands about town with Harriet:

Post

office,

utility

questions,

grocery

stores. 

90th day of summer,

high up 4 to 95 -- and now as many ete jours as printemps and hivers combined for the year.  Also compose page 5 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady...

June 28 - Paying for It

Rendering to various Caesars what is, one supposes, due to them,

on the 89th day of summer, high up 3 to 91 (49 days 80+, 24 90-or-beyond), and composing page 4 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady...

June 27 - Arrivals and Departures

Financial greetings arrive from the IRS -- thank goodness -- and a speedy deposit, lest they change their minds.  So, looks like we'll eat and pay the mortgage, on the 88th day of summer, high down 1 to 87, and composing the third page of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady...

June 26 - Activity

Down

80

to

American Canyon,

dropping off music for Teresa Foss (who we hope to feature in the excerpts from Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104, as well as John Bilotta's League of Minor Characters and Helena Michelson's The Mysteries. 

Zig-zagging

about,

back up

to the

freeway again,

and

over to Berkeley to touch base with

Meaghan Dibble, who will be in the Michelson, as well as Doug Brandt's My Little Secret and Alan Crossman's Veganlied (both excellent singers to be featured in the Crossman And Now... The Humans! as well) -- all this re Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices XVII Festival of new Music: 2017 -- Feet First into the Fire! (8pm, Saturdays, August 5 / 12, Bay Area Stage, 551 Broadway, Vallejo; 7:30pm, Saturday, August 19, St. Alban's Church, Albany [CA];  4pm, Sunday, August 29, Community Music Center, Capp Street, San Francisco). 

Next,

across the Bay,

delivering

Erling Wold

the long-overdue master CD recording of the recent San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's Alternate Facts and Lying Together concert (this past May 6 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, SF -- which featured The Decameron: Eighth Day ["Cheating Wives and Other Indescretions"], Op. 262 -- recordings of all pieces which should now soon appear at sfcco.org. 

With no end in sight,

off to Goat Hall,

to collect various odds-and-ends left in the old venue,

which perhaps someday will be concert-,

or at least rehearsal-ready,

once again... 

Still more tasks at hand,

over to Songbird Studio on 24th,

lateralling music over to Ashten Smith,

then crosstown to Chinatown and the

delightful

Clarion

Music

Center,

getting of sense of Clara Hsu's performance spaces, poetry, and translations. 

At

last

homeward,

but

a

circuituous

path:

Marin,

up

101

to

Novato,

past

Mt. Burdell

and

Olompali,

through San Antonio Valley into

Sonoma,

Petaluma,

a petrol

stop,

Frates,

116

to

12,

over

the

Napa

border,

downslope

into

the

Valley,

up

canyon

into

Solano. 

87th day of summer,

high again dropping 5,

to 88

(so, a 10-degree fall in 2 days, and, with this, we have had exactly as many intervals of printemps as of ete -- although there were 3 winter interludes to tip the balance).... 

Fairfield, 80
American Canyon, 81
Pinole, 80
Berkeley, 66
San Francisco, 68
San Rafael, 74
Petaluma, 78

Compose a second page of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady upon return...