July 28 - Bard Songs


Attempt at a cool Shakespeare parody, as part of the promotion for The Opus Project presents Opus 55: Bard Is the Ward (8pm, July 29, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA), including excerpts from


Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica"), Op. 55,


Mark Alburger's The Passion According to St. Matthew, Op. 55 (today in a new edition), and many more.


Finish printing repertory, and off divertingly --


via


Allison,


Monte


Vista,

Foothill


to


Pleasants Valley,


Cherry


Glen,


80,


and


680 in Solano and


Contra Costa --


to


Cybercopy for part and score reproductions,


returning


in


the


same spirit to compose page 13 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel VI - Bruno and Buffalmacco Steal a Pig from Calandrino, on this 119th day of summer, high down 2 to 100, fourth heat-wave in the month, always around the weekends (75 / 50 / 20 days at 80 / 90 / 100-or-better)

Fairfield, 92
Pleasant Hill, 96
Martinez, 88
Pinole, 60
Vallejo, 89



Mid-evening, take in Franz Waxman's Sunset Boulevard (1950),


concluding with its famous, "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."....