Third rehearsal,
at Diablo Valley College Music Building, of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Fresh Voices XVII Festival of New Works: 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 -- Harriet March Page, Artistic Director; Frank Johnson, Piano), including excerpts from Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104, and the premiere of
2017: An Opera in Multiple Unnecessary Acts, Op. 261, as well as
Dikkie Schoggen's Aging Grace,
Doug Brandt's Our Little Secret,
Alan Crossman's And Now.... The Humans!,
Robert Denham's The Way Home,
Helena Michelson's The Mysteries, and
John Bilotta's The League of Minor Characters.
Lateral over to
Martinez for coffee,
Chinese
dinner
with
Gigi
and
Kelly,
then
Roxx's on Main again,
now to appreciate
Brian's Cashmere Cowboys,
including a brilliant orginal song by the bassist.
Somewhere in here have finished composing The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266:
Novel V - Three Young Men Pull Down the Breeches of a Judge (9 pages total), and continued work on (Get Your Zen On) Interstate 80-55-44-40-15-10, Op. 267 (through page 5), on the 106th day of summer, high up 5, beyond the century mark to 102, locally and in Pleasant Hill (64 days 80+, 39 / 14 at-or-beyond 90 / 100... Fairfield, 100; Martinez, 89)...
