A celebration of 10-year-old Carmen Ruiz Guajardo Turnbull (our talented Amahl recently -- "Mark shares my birthday, does that mean he's my age?!") and my birthdays,
on this 81st day of springtime temperatures,
high down a point to 65 (Davis again 66; Sacramento, 61) --
Palm
Sunday
zt
Davis Community
Cliff,
processing in for
a children's presentation,
parents conference,
Communion,
and
Postlude
([Leon Boellmann (1862-1897)
Suite Gothique, Op. 25 (1895)],
followed, with Harriet,
by
coffee,
plus
benefactor-
friends
Tony and Beth Tanke's generous gifts to us at Cafe
Bernardo
and
the
University
of
California,
Davis,
Mondavi
Center,
featuring
the
Alexander
String
Quartet
in
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
rendezvous'ing again with our good folks and then proceeding wirh Harriet
back
to
DCC
for
the
Writer's
Project,
again with Cliff, including the composer's text re
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Vocal Sonatina No. 5 ("Angier"), Op. 160 (2008)
I. When You Stroke a Feline
When you stroke a
feline it purrs
When you stroke an
octobus, it strokes you right back
maybe that isn't quite right It
loops its limb around a hand and ex-
explores At
first you leap and then you laugh and
then you practically shout with glee for the
touch of an octopus is unlike anything you have felt.
Flesh is slippery and silky like the inside of your lips
or a cupful of dessert.
***
which turns out to be well-rgarded by all!
Off
go
again on a quixotic Sacramento sojourn
to the J Street Spaghetti Factory to join Deborah,
Carmen, Juan,
both Daves and Donna,
family Zoom,
and
eventually
Emma ---
cheers! ---
gifts on Carmen from us,
including flowers,
a mechanical gadget, and
Psalms, Book I, Op. 172 (w009)
Psalm I "Ashrey Haiysh
for boy soprano and harp, but why not Carmen girl soprano + Emma pianist?....
Happy Birthday
to us
all!
returning
rather
tenderly
yet disorientingly to post
Genre Implosions No. 2 ("Ages East"), Op. 165 (2008)
I. Call to Prayer
on the
International Music
Score Library Project
https://imslp.org/wiki/Genre_Implosions_No._2_'Ages_East'%2C_Op.165_(Alburger%2C_Mark)
(179 works
thus far posted here)....
with earlier serenades of
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major ("Kreutzer") (1803)
JOhannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb Major (1881)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934)
and
Mily Balakirev (1837-1910)
Symphony No. 2 in D Minor (1908)...