April 30 - Bits and Pieces


Alban Berg


Wozzeck (1922) marathon,


both the 1970 film


and


1987 Abbado / Grundhaber / Behrens


versions.


Before these,


out again


for the daily


nearly


Pony Express Trail,


now walking from Sievers Orchard Border Parking


to


Blue Pump and


back.


Return


via


a


scenic


I-80,


on the


42nd day of


summer,

high up 1 to

83


(Dixon, 82).

Finish up

Music History, Op. 335
    XIV. 21st-Century Music
        2f. Hosseini to Ross

and add to

Book of Dreams, Op. 277
     2020
          April 29-30
               1am Visit Boomer, Leave Through Side Door, Which Is Front, Strange Center Door Knob,
                        Hard to Close, Dark, Making Way Back to 325, Boomer's Big Dog, Not Totally Friendly,
                        Nipping, Wake Up, Initially Not Realizing the Dream,
                        Seeing Dancing Fragments of Comic Strip Panels…
                       Thinking It's a Ripe Night for Dreams…
               7am Trying to Open Umbrela Up in Wind for a Picnic ALong I-80 in Great Salt Lake Desert…
               8am Monastic Community, Young Man fleeing from Girlfriend Temptation in Southern CA,
                       I'm Thinking of LIfe in More Congenial Terms, Arriving Back at Accomodations,
                        Definitly Old Motel Suites,
                        Kids Playing in Room After Clean-Up, Encourage Them to Be On their Way,
                        One Child Playing HIde-and-Seek Within, Can See His Short-Pants Legs,
                        Computer OK….
                 10am Return from Long Trip to Shuttle Hop Back from Sacramento to Home,
                         with Family, We Play Out On Grass Waiting for Flight to Board,
                          I Realize I Have Forgot to Bring Ticket, Run Back in Barefoot,
                          Past Dramtic Homeless People Lolling in Grass Below Overhanging Trees,
                          Realize I Don't Have Any Idea Where Computer Is (Back in Bus, on Plane),
                          Get to Homey Ticket Counter, Social Distancing Encouraged,
                          But Not Really Enforced Due to Coronavirus, Some Friendly Thin Lady Butts in Line,
                         But Will Not Budge, Plane Leaves in 5 Minutes (It's 8:25am, Long Table Full Of Items,
                          I Talk to Ticket Agent Who's Moving Along Table Backside as I Am at Front,
                          Explain Situation, Am I Going to Be OK Getting On, She Says No, Smiling,
                          and Take a Later Flight, Then Says Something Absolutely Inexplicable,
                          Realize It's a Dream and Wake Up…. Thurssday or Friday re Distance Learning,
                          It's Thursday…. Crossword Puzzle, Bologna….

April 29 - Hair-Raising


Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2. Waters to Sting)
(Remote Lecture during Diablo Valley College Coronavirus Closure, April 29, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CioCqQh7OSc&list=PLtV-SdP8TZceHSiGdZx77NTYQawaLYT9Q

Detailed as...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2a. Waters)
Roger Waters
https://youtu.be/CioCqQh7OSc

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2b. Waters to Marley)
Roger Waters, Michael Nyman, Jimmy Page, Charles Amirkhanian, Bob Marley
https://youtu.be/PrERrST4L9A

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2c. Fripp to Adams)
Robert Fripp, Howard Shore, John Adams
https://youtu.be/W_OXmThXv58

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2d. I. Anderson to John)
Ian Anderson, David Bowie, Elton John
https://youtu.be/J189qCE81AY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2e. I. John to Lloyd Webber)
Elton John, Brian Eno, Andrew Lloyd Webber
https://youtu.be/O6KfElCn_e8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music V (2f. Lloyd Webber to Sting)
Lloyd Webber, Stephen Schwartz, Sting
https://youtu.be/Ziui12B1G9M

***


Yet one more pleasurable walking travail on the Pony Express Trail approximate on Sievers from Pitt School to Currey --


this final one from Double Pole Eastside View to Eucalyptus Approach Sign, finishing up a series of 8 non-contiguous-in-time-and-space walks from across said span (east-to-west, read from bottom-to-top)...

Eucalyptus Approach Sign to Currey 4/23
Double Pole Eastside View to Eucalyptus Approach Sign 4/29
White Tank to Double Pole Eastside View 4/27
Double Cross to White Tank Siding 4/25
Decorated Pole to Double Cross 4/24
Bee Gate to Decorated Pole 4/21
Alert Sign to Bee Gate 4/20
Pitt School to Alert Sign 4/19


There


and


back,


the latter


via


Halley,


Sweeney,


Tubbs,


Allendale...


on the 41st day of summer,


high down 7 to


82,


with Dixon at 84.


Politics


and


Metropolitan Opera streaming frames the day,


while finishing

Music History, Op. 335
    XIV. 21st-Century Music
        2e. Bates to West


-- the evening of particular note with


Alban Berg's


Wozzeck
(1922),


in William Kentrige's Dmitri- Shostakovich-Nose-style (2010)


production (2019).

More

Book of Dreams, Op. 277
     2020
          April 28-29
                4am Raspberries Falling Off Kichen Table….
                        Two Shiny Quarters on Driveway Along Sievers Avenue...