MARK ALBURGER, 2017: September 2017

September 30 - Shadows

181st day of summer,

high down a tick to 88 --

videos

and

catch-up, with the orchestration of page 6 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul"...

Samuel Becket - Waiting for Godot (1949)

ACT II

. . .

POZZO: (suddenly furious.)

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. (He jerks the rope.) On!

. . .

VLADIMIR:

Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?

(Estragon, having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again. Vladimir looks at him.) He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (Pause.) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener. (He looks again at Estragon.) At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said?

***

Nothing to be done (Whoops! That's Endgame [1957])

but

take

some

videos, in parallel to attempting to get ahead of all the work, including orchestrating page 5 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul". 180th day of summer, high down 2 to 89...

September 28 - Vision

Andrew Brooks looks at the x-rays and recommends shots rather than operation at present,

on a day that also features the Theoreticians dealing with Quiz 7: Late Baroque / Classic / Early Romantic Haromony,

with musical examples drawn from works of J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Franz Xaver Gruber, and Frederic Chopin.

179th day of

summer,

high down 2 to 91

(93 in

Pleasant Hill;

70, Pinole) --

delightfully

buzzing

about

to the appointment and later orchestration re page 4 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul" upon return...

September 27 - Advanced Romantic

C Chromatic Scale

Instruments in a Large Orchestra
(Draw a seating plan

Finally meet

Rashid Iqbal for consultation,

after

another session with the hopefully well-entertained and

visibly hard-working Music History class,

the

178th

day

summer,

high again 93 (Pleasant Hill, 92;

San

Ramon,

90) --

blitzing

hastily

north

thereafter --

iwith general catch-up and orchestration, re page 3 Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202: XI-XII (2011): Psalm 103-104 "O Bless the Lord my Soul" over various videos...