January 19 - Salvation Through Song

Davis Community Presbyterian Church

Band

and

Choir

rehearsals --

the latter being both the

Chancel

and

Chamber

groups --

great to make the

musical and

personal connections!

Before

this,

a

car

ballet

to

local

Firestone,

for

tire

pressure-indicator

gauge reparations --

then

a spin for

petrol

on

the

18th

day

of

Spring

temperatures,

high

again

55 --

making

our

way

back

to

pick

up

the

car.

Interspersed with all this,

various musical tssks, including posting

Op. 353 PALMS TO PINES PROPOSAL (August 30, 2021)
    An Ascent of Harriet March Motifs

on the Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2021/08/palms-to-pines-proposal-op-353.html

(the recording / video posted on YouTube
https://youtu.be/g830e4E3jRY)

at the same time,

assessing the

brutal damage (OK, and benefits)

of recent

precipitation, plus taking in

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
     Symphony No. 2 in D Major (1822)

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)
     Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 (1786)

Bedrich Smetana (1823-1884)
     Shakespeare Festival March, Op. 20 (1864)

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
     Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (1873)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
     L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 (1872)

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
     Symphony No. 6 in Eb Major (1905)

Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
     Excursion of Mr. Broucek to the Moon (1920)

and

Oskar Fried (1871-1941)
     Prelude and Fugue for String Orchestra, Op. 10 (1901)...