May 14 - Staring Resolutely at the Future


[Igor Stravinsky, not the least concerned about Exam, Part II, to be given sometime after 10:30am, Diablo Valley College, San Ramon, CA]


Write Any Scale (Other than a Major or Minor) and Identify

Write Four Chords (But Not on C) and Identify

Write the Instruments of a Large Orchestra, in Score Order



Listening


Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUSfrgPQjRM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Psalms


Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkEkxMb2yI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf


Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_(West_Side_Story_song)


John Williams - Star Wars: Main Title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NDf_b3yJU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Star_Wars


Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8AZZYpjIY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_(play)
(the Tennessee Williams source of the libretto)


Michael Cooke - Music for Humans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SSWqEOMwY

http://www.sfcco.org/mission.php
(performers in piece)

***


Continue to catch-up with paper-grading,


then


southwest


on


80,


to


South


on


680,


Contra


Costa,


and the


Music Historians for


Review III re the Exam. 


Out


thereafter


for


another


eventual


excursion



via the DVC-San-Ramon-to-Mt.-Diablo Route --


today on Blackhawk west from Magee Ranch to


Premery,


then


homeward --


on


the


50th


day


of


summer,


high


down


4


to


73 --

Pleasant Hill, 67
San Ramon, 69
Danville, 64


--- to continue editing system 111 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992), and score-study page 14 re Igor Stravinsky's Violin Concerto (1931): I, as well as Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8, Op. 65 (1943): III...