May 31 - Touch and Go


Create the video

Music History, Op. 335


    II.  Ancient Music (1. Antique Voices of Cultures)


        1c.  Polyphony and Percussion


             India - Keralite Snake Charmer; Palestine - Shepherd's Pipe; Metallic Idiophones

including

Gong,

Thumb

Piano,

Musical

Iron

Spheres,


and


Music Box.


Then go right on, beginning


       1d. Dances of Ages


            Seneca - Alligator Dance; Yurok - Women's Brush Dance; Wooden Idiophones


highlighting, among others, Log Drum,


Maraca,


and


Rain


Stick.


Work early morning (with a rest break) through Metropolitan Opera rebroadcast of


Richard Strauss's Salome (1905),


then


finally


an


outing


on

the


Pretty-Near


Pony Express Trail,


today past Yolo 98 Hill,


from Platform Parking


to


Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester Facility,


which


explains


the


suspicious


topography...


Swing by the UC Davis


llamas,


and


homeward


the


70th day of summer,


high up 5 to


80


-- Dixon,


79 /


Davis, 80...


Demonstrations continue to sweep the country and world re the death of George Floyd, under the knee of Derek Chauvin, on May 25.

Another update of

Book of Dreams, Op. 277
     2020
          May 30-31
               8am Color-Coded Coronavirus
               10am Giant Composers Chamber Orchestra Concert in Cathedral, with Choruses,
                    including a Flamboyant Diana Landau, No Social Distancing,
                    Packed Crowds Anxious for Show, Will I Conduct in Mask?,
                    Harriet and I Have Left Ours in a Truck at Distance, Head Back to Get,
                    Decide There's No Time, Previously Past Giant Colorful Housing Projects,
                    People All Out on Balconies,
                    Someone Comments That They're Not All Black and Brown, But They Are,
                    Back in Church, and Area for Snacks, But All That Remains is Popcorn,
                    Other Groups Warming Up, Rehearsing, But SFCCO Still Gettting Organized….
                    Someone Says "Small Crowd" But It's the Largest We've Ever Had,
                    Then Points to One Vacant Area,
                    Another Open Area Center Is Where Recording Will Take Place,
                    I Assist with Bizare C(h)ords…Music Color-Coded, Almost Video…
                   A Visual Video Timeline for Music...