October 10 - Ein Feuer!


Eine Feuer!
Das fährt von der Erde in dem Himmel und ein Getös,
herunter wie Posaunen.
Wie's herranklirrt!


A fire!
It rises from the earth to heaven and with a tumult falling,
down as trombones!
How it rattles!


Wozzeck: Act I, Scene II - Alban Berg, after Georg Büchner...


Dizzingly smoky meeting with the


Theoreticians for Board Harmony,


surreally on Igor Stravinsky's Firebird (1909): Finale (above image not-so-historically-accurately from the Walt Disney Fantasia 2000)...


Temporarilly clearing skies during errands,


then


amazingly


back


into


it --


191st


day


of


summer,


third


day


in


a


row


of


high 82 (also apex in Pleasant Hill; 78 in Pinole) -- the breathtaking return to begin organization of  


Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272 -- to be premiered as part of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's 20th-Anniversary Gala (7:30pm, Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, SF), with 


I. Henry Miller in Brooklyn, Op. 77 (1999, Clay): VI. Arthur Rimbaud (Goat Hall, San Francisco, 2000)...