Final
Exam
for a
fine group of
Music Historians,
and
out
for
the
last
San-Ramon-area
walk of the
season,
back to the
Hidden Valley Trail,
now the great
U South
and
Northeast
upslope,
rising
very
gradually
to
reveal
prospects
all
around
and
a
high
bovine
upland,
then
beyond
past
more
human
indicia
to
Summit
Plateau
and
onward,
eventually
junctioning
with
the
Tassajara
Hills
footpath.
Marvelous,
with
a
meandering
deja-
vu
return
with
a
coyote sighting that soon includes a
ground squirrel -- who exactly is aware of whom?
Onward
to
start
point,
homeward via
financial errands,
dizzyward,
farewellward --
on
the
37th
day of fall,
high
earlier
for
a 3rd day in a row,
66...
Pleasant Hill, 67
San Ramon, 65
Pinole, 74
... and, yes, editing page 16 of the new edition Symphony No. 1 ("It Wasn't Classical…"), Op. 61 (1998): I. Allegro con brio late...
