January 20 - Various Levels of Reality


Off to Fantasy Cakes with Megan and Harriet,

to begin celebration of Megan's birthday,


and


getting


there


is


an adventure in itself


across town,


picking out


delicious


comestibles,


and


returning homeward, looking forward to tomorrow's celebratory get-together....


Before this,


out


for another


Vacaville Streets walk --


from Poplar


south on Leisure,


with views of the Sierra Nevada,


plus Lagoon and


Vaca Mountains,


as well as


English Hills.


proceeding down to Fresh Strawberries,


thence


to


return


on


the


19th


day


of


Spring,


high


again


55.


During a number of times in the day,


work on musical labourings, including posting


Op. 354 STRAVINSKY ORCHESTRATIONS (September 12, 2021)
    I. Concerto in D (1946): I / III
    II. Orpheus (1947): Orpheus Weeps for Eurydice
    III. Cantata (1951): I. A Lyke-Wake Dirge


on the Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2021/09/stravinsky-orchestrations-op-354.html


while the


world turns in


weather reports, plus


F.J. Haydn (1732-1809)
     Symphony No. 104 in D Major ("London") (1795)
          III. Minuet


Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1947)
     Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56 (1843)



Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
     Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (1878)


Leo Delibes (1836-1891)
     Sylvia (1876)
          XVIIIa. Pizzicati


Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
     Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63 (1895)


Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
     Iberia, Book I (1908)
          V. Malaga



Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
1873RachmaninoffSergei1909PianoConcerto03InDMinorOp30-1843-230120-1124PM



Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
     Fugal Concerto for Flute and Oboe, Op. 40 (1923)



Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
     Metamorphoseon (1930)


Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
     Symphony No. 6 (1934)


Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
     Symphony No. 3 (1946)


William Walton (1902-1983)
     Viola Concerto (1962)


Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001)
     Suite for Orchestra (1955)


Fikret Amirov (1922-1984)
     Symphonic Dances (1963)


Yasushi Akutagawa (1925-1989)
     Music for Symphony Orchestra (1950)


Richard Rodney Bennet (1936-2012)
     Little Suite (1966)
          The Bird's Lament


with Harriet


working away, too, as well as


more reports on the


Lying Psychopath, and


Stephen Colbert (b. 1964) inverviewing Adam Kinzinger (1978)!...