March 31 - Chiaroscuro

Ah, yes, second day of

Spring Break,

but hardly registers in the pandemic school closures.

So,

continue with video production,

and break for

another saunter on the

near-approximate

Pony Express Trail,

now

east

from Silveyville Christmas Tree Farm Border Parking

to

Quixotic Ranch First Poles.

Back and

beyond to

Pitt School,

Sievers,

Pedrick

Produce

and

Bridge.

25th day of summer,

high again up 5 to

72,

locally

and in

Dixon

(first summery day since

March 12).

Exercise and

adages

all over,

Gioachino Rossini's Barber of Seville (1816) from the Met, and finish

Music History, Op. 335
    XI. 20th-Century Music III
        1a. Copland to Partch

        1b. Partch to Khachaturian

        1c. Khachaturian to Shostakovich

March 30 - A Celebration Out of Season

Silveyville Christmas Tree Farm

is the focus

of another

jaunt on the

approximate Pony Express Trail

(brief delay

getting

there) --

walking west from

Chicken Parking

to

Redwood

Angle Sign.

Subsequently

back,

overshooting

to

Quixotic Ranch.

63rd day of spring,

high nicely up 5 to 67 (Dixon, 66).

Errands late,

more Metropolitan Opera, and

note with sadness the passing of

Krzysztof Penderecki (November 23, 1933 - March 29, 2020... strange to note that AP obituary does not mention his seminal Threnody for [/to] the Victims of Hiroshimo, 1960.  Also finish

Music History, Op. 335
    X. 20th-Century Music II
        2e. Poulenc to Copland

Music History, Op. 335
    X. 20th-Century Music II
        2f. Copland