December 11 - Testing, Testing


Exam time for the Theoreticians, with examples drawn from music of Howard Shore, Elton John, Mark Alburger, Kurt Cobain, and Thom Yorke.  With the new efficient 16-week semester and the lost time due to the Paradise Fire school closure, this is the first time in quite a while that the final has been given in the last week, but as the new schedule maintains our 3-hour sessions (actually even a bit expanded, all seems well in terms of many finishing within the interval (there will more opportunity during our last session Thursday, which will also feature Composition IV presentations).


A


very


scenic


commute



southwest,


on


680 -- 


tule


fog


and


clear


skies


into


Contra


Costa


towards


the


Diablo Valley College rendezvous.


Errands


and


another


beautiful


transit


thereafter


homeward,


on the 31st day of fall,


high down 4 to 59 (64 in Pleasant Hill; 61, Martinez), to edit page 81 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III and composing respectively pages 8 and 2 of

The Decameron, Op. 289 (2018)
     100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
          Tenth Day - Novel III - Mitridanes, holding Nathan in despite, journeys with intent to kill him

Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290 (2018)
     I. Bourgeois Ouverture (Comedie-Ballet) - Lully, Mil