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)...