April 8 - Red Zone


Good morning!  Here's the next Online Lecture (playlist of 6 linked c. 15-minute original videos on YouTube).  Looking forward to your notes on this one, as well as this past Monday's (c. 300-500 words each) -- handwritten or typed -- as pdf or jpg attachment to mus21stc@gmail.com (or school email), by 6pm, this Friday, April 10).  Hope all's well with you and yours!

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2. Berg to Copland)
(Remote Lecture during Diablo Valley College Coronavirus Closure, April 8, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnPrgWFuhqI&list=PLtV-SdP8TZceAgn3oKT-0Z8j18DO8PUBu

Details of the 6 constituent parts below...

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2a. Berg to Prokofiev)
Alban Berg, King Oliver, Ernst Toch, Max Steiner, Jelly Roll Morton, Sergei Prokofiev
https://youtu.be/OnPrgWFuhqI

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2b. Prokofiev to Hindemith)
Sergei Prokofiev, Ferde Grofe, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith
https://youtu.be/0FV-60cF0VY

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2c. Orff to Gershwin)
Carl Orff, Henry Cowell, Adolph Deutsch, George Gershwin
https://youtu.be/6tyXX4djxC0

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2d. Gershwin to Poulenc)
George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Francis Poulenc
https://youtu.be/IXCxbGZ9jn8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2e. Poulenc to Copland)
Francis Poulenc, George Antheil, Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/V6-h5ifvYv8

Mark Alburger - 20th-Century Music II (2f. Copland)
Aaron Copland
https://youtu.be/uQkyte7Obeg

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Music History, Op. 335
    XII. 20th-Century Music IV
        2a. Riley


        2b. Riley to Young

A local law enforcer shows up to check out what sort of eccentric goings-on are going on in the greenspace adjacent to the residence.  But all's well, once he learns that all is happening in the line of Music History, my attempts to homage-replicate Terry Riley's hippie / South Asian 60's-70's looks notwithstanding.


Break


for


Pony Express 'proximate,


still leapfrogging a bit, due to still-wet road shoulders, now walking from Pitt School Post Parking, south to


Mid-Orchard.


Auto


return


again,


via


Silveyville,


Allendale,


505,


Monte Vista --


70th day of spring, high down 3 to 64 (63 in Dixon).


Note with a bit of sadness that Bernie Sanders has suspended his Presidential Primary Campaign -- but probably for the best. 


While we would have loved to see him go after the Great Criminal in debates, etc, looks like Joe Biden will have even more across-the-political spectrum appeal, and what is essential is to have the Occupant ousted...