June 10 - Basics


Perusing thrugh the old 1964 World Book Encyclopedia: B,


noting articles on Johann Sebastian Bach,


Ballet,


and


Balloons --


possibly


the


subject


of


an opera...


plus information on Ludwig van Beethoven,


Hector Berlioz,


Leonard Bernstein,


Georges Bizet,


Johannes Brahms,


and the


Byzantine


Empire.


So,


off,


via


80


southwest


and


680


south,


to


Contra


Costa


and


DVC


for


financial


errands, then south and west to UC Berkeley Music Library for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 79-80 (8pm, Saturday, September 28), on the warmest day of the year thus far -- high up 8 to 102

Pleasant Hill, 103
Martinez, 76
Berkeley, 99


Upon return, begin composition of

Broke Dance Intermezzi: X, Op. 320 (June 10, 2019)


     IVx1. X… (Xenia)
          Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, Merce Cunningham

[9 pages]

and continue that of


Broke Dance Intermezzi: W, Op. 319
     IVw5. Witches'... (A Desert Place)
          Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi

[5]