Mario Tejada (DVCSR faculty member and husband of Jennifer) visits the Music History class on this beginning of Week 9 (20th-Century I -- my content request... he being the only evaluator who has ever asked if I have a favorite session, this being next after this Wednesday's Stravinsky / Webern / Berg, which is less optimal as a quiz time), featuring works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Gustav Holst, Arnold Schoenberg, and Bela Bartok. 6th visitation through the course of the 16-year Diablo Valley College experience -- the math being every 3 years + an extra, given an accelerated schedule at San Ramon, which does its own evaluative schedule and counts summer semesters in mix, but less one at main campus, since the San Ramon's can fit into the Pleasant Hill regimen.
At any rate, all seem to have a good time in the session, and will hope for best. In contacting a few folks afterwards, happen upon a text from Cliff, which ultimately leads to a "playlist of life" over 30-years duration thus far, so, in consultation with him,
begin
Cliff Variations, Op. 287 (2018): Theme and 30 Passacaglic Life Changes, mapped over the 30 passacaglia variations of Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 4, Op. 98 (1885): IV, with Theme [Mark Alburger (b. 1957) - Crystal Series, Op. 32 (1987): I. Crystal Bells]
... on
the
209th
day
of
summer,
high
down
2
to
80
(also
the
apogee
of
the
11th,
so
continuing
a month of only 7 temp highs)
Fairfield / Pleasant Hill, 74
Martinez / Danville, 71
San Ramon, 66
Time
for
a
reward:
another
walk on the DVCSR-to-Mt-Diablo transit,
west
from
Seventh
Promontory
to
Sixth Canyon Oak. Meet a gentleman who bikes up this road several times a week... It's taken me a significant portion of the semester just to walk it once, but, no hurry of course: the parking is questionable, and beyond the South Gate, it' $10 a day until turning 62 this coming spring...
The
extensive
way
homeward
on
scenic
I-680
towards
Cordelia
and
80
leads
to
errands about town with
Harriet,
more
Cliff work and editing page 33 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III...
