April 2 - Whitewash


So the idea is not "one year closer to death", but "made it!", at 61, surpassing

Gilles Binchois, 60
Girolamo Frescobaldi, 59
Orlando Gibbons, 41
Henry VIII, 55
Jean-Baptiste Lully, 54
Johann Pachelbel, 53
Arcangelo Corelli, 59
Henry Purcell, 36
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, 26
J.C. Bach, 46
W.A. Mozart, 35
Conrad Ditters von Dittersdorf, 59
Ludwig van Beethoven, 56
Niccolo Paganini, 57
Carl Maria von Weber, 39
Franz Schubert, 31
Vincenzo Bellini, 33
Felix Mendelssohn, 38
Robert Schumann, 46
Frederic Chopin, 39
Bedrich Smetana, 60
Stephen Foster, 37
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 40
Alexander Borodin, 53
Georges Bizet, 37
Modest Mussorgsky, 42
Peter Tchaikovsky, 53
Anatoly Liadov, 59
Sergei Taneyev, 58
Isaac Albeniz, 49
Gustav Mahler, 50
Hugo Wolf, 42
Claude Debussy, 55
Ferruccio Busoni, 58
Erik Satie, 59
Enrique Granados, 48
Scott Joplin, 49
Max Reger, 43
Gustav Holst, 59
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 37
Ottorino Respighi, 56
Alban Berg, 50
Charles Tomlinson Griffes,  35
Lili Boulanger, 24
Peter Warlock, 36
Erich Korngold, 60
George Gershwin, 38
Kurt Weill, 50

Now all we need are the excellence and fame bits...


21st day of summer,


high down 2 to 77


(Pleasant Hill, 75 / San Ramon, 74),


meeting the Music Historians for a bit of fun re Sergei Prokofiev (61), Darius Milhaud (81), Paul Hindemith (68), Carl Orff (86), George Gershwin, and Francis Poulenc (64).  Score-study of Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, page 2, re The Opus Project presents Opus 64 (8pm, Saturday, April 28, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, CA),


then out afterwards for another walk in the DVC-SR to Mt. Diablo circuit,


now from The Village at Tassajara,


south on Crow Canyon to Center,


and


back. 


Return briskly


via the beauties of


680


and


80


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