Fourth rehearsal 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),
at
Diablo Valley College
Music,
including
2017: An Opera in Multiple Unnecessary Acts, Op. 261, and
Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104, plus
Dikkie Schoggen's Aging Grace,
Alan Crossman's And Now... The Humans!,
Doug Brandt's Our Little Secret,
Frank Johnson's Defiled Is My Name,
Helena Michelson's The Mysteries,
Robert Denham's The Way Home, and
John Bilotta's The League of Minor Characters.
Make
the
pilgrimage,
via
errands,
up
80
and
Orange,
to
Tahoe Joe's for libations and sustenance thereafter,
on the 113th day of summer,
high up 6 to 102 (70 / 45 / 17 days at 80 / 90 / 100+) --
100 in Fairfield /
Pleasant Hill -- and compose page 7 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel VI - Bruno and Buffalmacco Steal a Pig from Calandrino... Oh yes, a power outage in the early morning hours, which extends beyond our leaving for rehearsal, and is not rectified until about mid-afternoon. Greatful for restored fans, etc., after returning from Joe's, we're mystified when electricity cuts off again in the late evening. Cruise around town, ascentaining that affected area is only several blocks (lucky us), due to a permanent fix from the initial situation (automobile meets electrical pole), and we are assured that the ordeal will not last much longer, which, mercifully, proves to be the case....
