June 30 - Wide Open Spaces



Back to


Western Dental --


the old one-two --


on the 91st day of summer,


high up a tick to 96, with the composition of page 6 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady accomplished...

June 29 - Below the Heights


Errands about town with Harriet:


Post


office,


utility


questions,


grocery


stores. 


90th day of summer,


high up 4 to 95 -- and now as many ete jours as printemps and hivers combined for the year.  Also compose page 5 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady...









June 28 - Paying for It








Rendering to various Caesars what is, one supposes, due to them,


on the 89th day of summer, high up 3 to 91 (49 days 80+, 24 90-or-beyond), and composing page 4 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady...

June 27 - Arrivals and Departures


Financial greetings arrive from the IRS -- thank goodness -- and a speedy deposit, lest they change their minds.  So, looks like we'll eat and pay the mortgage, on the 88th day of summer, high down 1 to 87, and composing the third page of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady...

June 26 - Activity


Down


80



to


American Canyon,


dropping off music for Teresa Foss (who we hope to feature in the excerpts from Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104, as well as John Bilotta's League of Minor Characters and Helena Michelson's The Mysteries


Zig-zagging


about,


back up


to the


freeway again,


and


over to Berkeley to touch base with


Meaghan Dibble, who will be in the Michelson, as well as Doug Brandt's My Little Secret and Alan Crossman's Veganlied (both excellent singers to be featured in the Crossman And Now... The Humans! as well) -- all this re Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices XVII Festival of new Music: 2017 -- 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). 


Next,


across the Bay,


delivering


Erling Wold


the long-overdue master CD recording of the recent San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's Alternate Facts and Lying Together concert (this past May 6 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, SF -- which featured The Decameron: Eighth Day ["Cheating Wives and Other Indescretions"], Op. 262 -- recordings of all pieces which should now soon appear at sfcco.org


With no end in sight,


off to Goat Hall,


to collect various odds-and-ends left in the old venue,


which perhaps someday will be concert-,


or at least rehearsal-ready,


once again... 


Still more tasks at hand,


over to Songbird Studio on 24th,


lateralling music over to Ashten Smith,



then crosstown to Chinatown and the



delightful


Clarion


Music


Center,


getting of sense of Clara Hsu's performance spaces, poetry, and translations. 


At


last


homeward,


but


a


circuituous


path:


Marin,


up


101


to


Novato,


past


Mt. Burdell


and


Olompali,


through San Antonio Valley into


Sonoma,


Petaluma,


a petrol


stop,


Frates,


116


to


12,


over


the


Napa


border,


downslope


into


the


Valley,


up


canyon


into


Solano. 


87th day of summer,


high again dropping 5,


to 88


(so, a 10-degree fall in 2 days, and, with this, we have had exactly as many intervals of printemps as of ete -- although there were 3 winter interludes to tip the balance).... 

Fairfield, 80
American Canyon, 81
Pinole, 80
Berkeley, 66
San Francisco, 68
San Rafael, 74
Petaluma, 78

Compose a second page of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel IV - The Rector of Fiesole Loves a Widow Lady upon return...