[Michael Cooke, ambivalent to be featured on Quiz 14 (21st-Century Music), sometime after 11am, Wednesday, May 2, 2018, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]
Write Four Bars of Music (make it interesting and/or beautiful and/or fun and/or dangerous)
Write a Short Essay on a Favorite Piece of Music (composer/performer and name of piece)
What makes it great? Use our typical vocabulary (paragraph of five or more sentences)
Listening
Michael Cooke - Ha-Me'aggel (One Who Draws Circles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVWPSoev0jU
http://www.michaelkcooke.com/bio.html
Thomas Ades - Totentanz (Death Dance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8ySgSayK8
(@4:15 - interview w/ composer re work, previous to this...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adès
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totentanz_(Adès)
Mason Bates - The B-Sides: V. Warehouse Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZ1HhvZPlg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-Sides_(composition)
Steven Price - Gravity: Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJdAAXaMRU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Price_(composer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack
Mehdi Hosseini - The Baluch: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IvipUYrm8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Hosseini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baluch
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Face_(Lady_Gaga_song)
***
Another
busy
day
down
beautiful
680
in
Solano
and
Contra
Costa
to
meet
with the
Music Historians,
and
out
again
for
an
additional
walk
from DVC San Ramon
to Mt. Diablo
now on
Sandhill
south in
Tatcan Canyon
and
west
up
among
stalwart
oak
groves
to
the
Pass,
with views extending to Sunol and Las Trampas Ridges.
Reverse
course
down
and
up,
back
in the car,
on
the
34th day of summer,
high up 2 to 82
Fairfield, 73
Benicia / Martinez, 72
Pleasant Hill / San Ramon, 76
Danville, 71
Somewhere in there, edit page 92 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, and
out for errands...
