May 2 - Theoretical Constructs

Excerpts from Philip Glass's Satyagraha and Akhnaten,

plus more of Sting's King of Pain for the Diablo Valley College Music Theoreticians,

on

the

33rd

day

of

summer, again the highest of the year -- 93 (locally and in Pleasant Hill) -- 2nd in the 90's, 9th 80+ (Pinole, 87) ... 

Errands

around

campus

thereafter,

and

a

head-

spinning

return

on

80

to

compose

page 2 of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel I - Gulfardo Borrows Moneys of Guasparruolo...

May 1 - Investigating

Music by composers born from 1970 and beyond, for the Music Historians,

on

by

far

the

warmest

day

of

the

year --

91 (locally and in Pleasant Hill / San Ramon...

first in the 90's... Pinole, 89) --

taking

a

short

stroll

thereafter

adjacent

to

the

College

along

Alamo

Creek,

upstream

to

its

confluence with the East Fork.  From here,

wind head-spinningly back via

San Pablo Reservoir and

80,

through Contra Costa,

Solano,

Napa,

and

onward

past

the

various

Lagoon

Mountains,

to begin composition of The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), with Novel I - Gulfardo Borrows Moneys of Guasparruolo...