February 8 - Short Flourish


Acquire Igor Stravinsky's Fanfare for a New Theatre -- recording, score, and video -- which comes in handy for the composition of


Book of Revelation, Op. 296 (2019)
Opera Oratorio after John of Patmos, AD 6-100

Chapter IV - Come Up Here (Ecstatic, Quarter = 160, 8/4-5/4-3/4-6/4)

Piccolo, English Horn, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba
John, Great Voice, Chorus of the Four Living Creatures
Organ, Marimba, Pedal Bass Drum, Arco Strings

Sources
    Primary
       Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
          Fanfare for a New Theatre (1954)
          Requiem Canticles (1966)
    Secondary
        John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876) - Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! (Nicaea, 1861)
        G.F. Handel (1685-1759) - Messiah (1747)

"Come up here, I'll show
What must happen after this"
"Holy! Lord God Almighty!
To receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing."

(5 pages total)

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Also edit page 49 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act IV, and compose Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290: IVb9. Bechtel Bouree (Precipitous) -- - J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Ian Anderson, Matthew Owens [6 pages total], on this coincidentally-but-unsurprisingly-by-this-point rainy (.29 of an inch additional, 12.77 since July 1) 38th day of spring, high down 6 to 51, as the second-coldest day of the year, after January 6's 50...