April 6 - No Place Like Home


Ta-da!  Hope you had a reasonable Spring Break!

With California schools announced closed to traditional teaching through this academic year (Fall 2019 - Spring 2020), here's the next video playlist (6 linked c. 15-minute short original movies) presentation on YouTube...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1. Stravinsky to Berg)
(Remote Lecture during Diablo Valley College Coronavirus Closure, April 6, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Eesd9I2lY&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccIfXPzbcsgLY17VLdXodI2

Playlist particulars as follows...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1a. Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky
https://youtu.be/15Eesd9I2lY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1b. Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky
https://youtu.be/u2gCnEkiXW0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1c. Stravinsky to Varese)
Igor Stravinsky, Josef Matthias Hauer, Edgar Varese
https://youtu.be/J2s4G3vwYVE
(N.B. Stravinsky - The Flood - Blocked)

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1d. Varese / Webern)
Edgar Varese, Anton Webern
https://youtu.be/_CGBiDG9QNY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1e. Webern / Berg)
Anton Webern, Alban Berg
https://youtu.be/6qx0im5yD3Q

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (1f. Berg)
Alban Berg
https://youtu.be/5yDZjKVE4sI

Same deal re lecture notes... 300-500 words, should be c. a page, feel free to just listen and watch while jotting down your thoughts... handwritten or typed, emailing pdf or jpg of same by 6pm, Friday, April 10, to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email).

It's been great hearing from you!  Miss the in-person classes and way-of-life in general!

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Music History, Op. 335
    XII. 20th-Century Music IV
        1c. Bock to Crumb


        1d. Crumb

Work on above videos from early


(around Metropolitan Opera rebroadcast of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, 1831), through


middle (w/ another Coronavirus update), to


late (a newsbreak on the


68th day of spring,


high up 3 to


58 --


let's say another .5 inches precip,


for a total of 12.6 since July 1).