February 12 - Happy Returns


Recapitulation of

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
     Sicut Cervus (c. 1594)


[as opposed to

Mark Alburger
     Secret Service, Op. 410 (2011)]


part


of


another glorious service at


Davis Community Presbyterian Church,


including


readings from James I: 17 in


several


translations,



plus


Psalm


73:


21-


-28,


and


John 3:


1-2


as well as


19-20.


The Palestrina comes off well, as does


Derek Austin's moving sermon


and blessing,


with additional postlude


coffee


and spirited


conversation.


Second


day


of


summer! --


high zooming up 14 to 74 (warmest day o' year thus far...)! --


continuing


celebration


by


dining

|

al


fresco


at


Cane's


Chicken,


capped


by


vino


at


home -- conversing with Harriet, Cliff, Bette, and John.

By-and-by, produce new edition piano-vocal for

Antigone, Op. 88 (2000)
     V. Where Is Your Pain


and post


English Folk Song Suite Revisted, Op. 377 (2022)
    For Voices and Orchestra
    I. [I'll Be] Seventeen Come Sunday / Pretty Caroline / Dives and Lazarus
    II. My Bonny Boy / Green Bushes
    III. The Baffled Knight (Blow Away the Morning Dew) / High Germany /
          Whistle, Daughter, Whistle / John Barleycorn




on the Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2022/01/english-folk-song-suite-revisited-op-377.html


in an environment of

Nicolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950)
     Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 44 (1938)


The Dick Van Dyke [b. 1925] Show (1961)
      2, XXX. A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise (1963)


David Attenborough (b. 1926)
     Planet Earth: The Blue Planet (2001)
          I, 7. Tidal Seas


Seth Meyers (b. 1973),


NOVA (1974)


    XXXVIII, 18. The Fabric of the Cosmos

and


Family


Zoom


watching


Super Bowl LVII (est. 1967 -- alas not a strong one for Philadelphia)...