January 22 - Safe Havens

At

Davis

Community

Presbyterian
 


Church


for another round of

reading, now from Genesis 1 [set in


The Creation, Op. 93 (2000)

     I. In the Beginning],


plus


another fine sermon from Interim Pastor


Derek Austin, and


and a resounding


postlude.


Another nice reception in the Fireside Room for Derek, where Harriet and I chat again with Tony Tanke, particularly re plans to co-teach a course at U.C. Davis in the Fall --


today presently on this


blustery


21st (at least by one reckoning) day of Spring temperatures, high again 55 (either 4 or 5 days with identical sequential highs, depending on the source --



56 in Davis) --


returning


in


splendor


via


I-80,

Leisure,


and


Sequoia...


placing


Op. 356 EZEKIEL DRY BONES (October 12, 2021)


on the Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2021/10/ezekiel-dry-bones-op-356.html

in counterpoint to a media environment of


John Field (1782-1837)
     Air du Bon Roi Henri IV (1812)


Edouard Lalo (1823-1892)
     Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21 (1874)


Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
     Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4 (1867)


Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
     Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 (1885)


Claude Debussy (1860-1918)
     La Mer (1905)
          II. Jeux de Vagues


Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
     12 Danzas Espanolas, Op. 5 (1890)
          IX. Mazurka Romantica


Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963)
     Suite Andalucia (1933)
          VI. Malaguena



Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
     Piano Concerto (1945)


a further


delightful


Family Zoom,


John Williams (b. 1932)
     The Empire Strikes Back (1982)

and


Chris Wallace (b. 1947) interviewing Nancy Pelosi (b. 1940)!...