February 18 - Merriment



Compose / orchestrate / re-configure the rest of


Broke Dance Intermezzi: B, Op. 298 (February 18, 2019)
    IVb1. Caged Bacchanale (Viniferous Pentangle) - Camille Saint-Saens, John Cage, Mark Alburger

--- [57 pages total]...



           IVb2. Badinerie Seed (Boris and Natasha) - J.S. Bach, Terry Riley



            IVb3. Danse Banane Sauvage (Freud) - Gustav Mahler, Josephine Baker

           IVb4. Basse... (Jouyssance Vous Donneray) - Thoinot Arbeau, David Munrow, Peter Warlock


            IVb5. Beleagered Bear... (Au Naturel) - Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky



    IVb6. Twelve-Step Beguine (East Side Story)
        Maurice Ravel, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Mark Alburger

...[23 systems]...



     IVb7. Prophetic Belly… (Valley of the Whales) - Paul Hindemith, Mark Alburger



       IVb8. Bergamasque Mask (Dandy) - Gabriel Faure, Arnold Schoenberg


        IVb9. Ice Bergerette (In the Brush) - Tielman Susato, Hector Berlioz


          IVb10 CrumBolero (Militaire) - Gustav Holst, Maurice Ravel, George Crumb



    IVb11. Bonne Bon... (Anatomical) - Japan, George Crumb

...[3 sheets]


        IVb12. Bechtel Bouree (Precipitous) - J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Ian Anderson, Matthew Owens

Also edit page 59 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and write


Book of Revelation, Op. 296 (2019)
Opera Oratorio after John of Patmos, AD 6-100
Chapter XIV - Great Babylon (Chlorotic, Quarter = 80, Cut Time)

Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Contrabassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
Angels
Harp, Organ, Xylophone, Marimba, Strings Strings

Sources
    Primary
        Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - A German Requiem, Op. 45 (1868)
    Secondary
        Heinrich Schutz (1585-1672) - Selig Sind die Toten (1648)
        Aaron Schoenberg (1874-1951) - Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)
        Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
        Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) - Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 (1937)
               Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Mishima (1985)

Great Babylon has fallen.  She made people drink up her wine. 
    Strong wine, immoral lust!
Those woshipping the Beast and image find they will be drinking
    God's wine of fury poured out!
This calls for strengh!  This calls for faith!  This calls for endurance!
"Use your sickle, cut the grapes from vineyards of the earth because they're ripe for harvest!"
Angles swing their sickles on the Earth and they
Cut the grapes from the vine and they throw them down into the press
And a flood came out of the press.
It was two hundred miles long and about a thousand feet deep!

...[6]...

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The Washington's Birthday holiday!

George's (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799) -- depicted above by


Gilbert Stuart (b. surname Stewart, December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828), himself painted by



Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853) -- celebration now always occurs third Monday of the month (each year sometime in the interval of 15-21).  He was, of course, a close chronological contemporary of


Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 - May 31, 1809).


The vacation date has also been called Presdient's Day, but not in California and elsewhere, where Abraham Lincoln's (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) birth is celebrated as a separate holiday, which could just as well fete


Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882)!  And their near-birth bro (all these Feb dates!)




Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847).




At any rate, this weekday break as the 47th day of spring,


high up 3 to 56...