Whoo Hoo! Re-learn how to design a new Blogspot website and begin this one, having finished last year's (markalburger2022.blogspot.com),
shortly after the re-runs of New York merriment on New Year's Day (yes, strange that no West Coast city can really compare)
as Harriet and I explosively
offer our
toasts to the
New Year...
After a few hours respite,
out again
on a beautiful morning
with the
Sierra Nevada
and Coast Ranges in view,
to
sing
with
the
Band
in
the
Davis
Community
Presbyterian
Church
Service,
which
includes
Matthew 2: 1-12
which is also
featured in
The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)
II. Now at Jesus's Birth in Bethlehem
Mary Westfall delivers a thoughtful Sermon on the subject,
emphasizing the notion of the Magi returning home by a different route, which seems to be an idea to take to heart.
A Ritual of Renewal
follows,
and
after
the
Blessing
and
greetings
Emma
meets
with
Harriet and
me
for
a
serious
but
happy
debriefing of the Christmas Concert,
and we decide to do
Gian Carlo Menotti
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951)
again next year with another Alburger piece --
most likely
Magnificat, Op. 86 (2000)
or
The Nativity According to St. Luke, Op. 106 (2002)
Elated
we
head
out,
partially
inspired
by
that
notion
of
returning home
via
a
different
route --
across
the
Valley
to
Sierra
Foothills,
first
stopping
in
Auburn
and
meandering
to
downtown
and
Tio
Pepe's
for
a
delicious
Mexican
meal,
then
a
spin
'round
town,
ultimately
back
on
80 east
to a
slightly
scenically re-located
Starbucks.
And
now
the
adventure
upslope
to
the
snow...
farther
east
and
higher
than
ruburban Colfax,
instead, all the way to the weather station of Blue Canyon,
and,
will
we
be
able
to turn around at the interchange?
Yes,
but
just
barely,
up a semi-icy, snowy slope.
Definitely time to celebrate
(God takes care of fools, at least evidently sometimes...)!
Downslope
in
the
setting
sun,
in the environs of
Gold Run and
the Transcontinental Route...
all
to
celebrate...
Down,
down,
Auburn Ravine
and
Ridges,
on what could be considered the
first day of Spring temperatures, high 60, up 1 from yesterday's 59
Davis, 58
Sacramento, 59
Auburn, 57
Blue Canyon, 34
Upon return, post Music History, Op. 335 on the
Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2020/03/music-history-op-335.html
in consort with
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
Suite in E Minor (1718)
Elton John (b. 1947)
The Lion King (1994)
and
heroic Adam Kinzinger (b. 1978) calling out the Lying Psychopath Former Occupant Criminal...