September 11 - Turning to the Light


Somber anniversary in America and life goes on,


with parallel and oblique harmony for the Theoreticians,


on


the


168th


day


of


summer,


high again 68 (Fairfield, 87 / Pleasant Hill, 89) --


errands about


campus,


then


off to


Solano College


for another rendezvous with Harriet,


followed


by


paper-grading


at


El


Pitayo --


the views


including


Vaca Mountains, Fairfield Foothills,


and


Twin Sisters --


subsequently


homeward to edit / score-study

Page 84 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II

System 11

King David, Op. 69 (1998): XII. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
     Billy the Kid (1938): Mexican Dance and Finale - Goodbye, Old Paint (1938)

John Cage (1912-1992) - Dream (1948)

System 6

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
     Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945): IV. Happy Fairy Tale