[Michael Cooke, wondering if he will be featured on Quiz 14 (21st-Century Music), Tuesday, November 26, San Ramon / Wednesday, November 27, Pleasant Hill / Friday, December 6, Late Start]
Write Four Bars of Music (make it interesting and/or beautiful and/or fun and/or dangerous)
Write a Short Essay on a Favorite Piece of Music (composer/performer and name of piece)
What makes it great? Use our typical vocabulary (paragraph of five or more sentences)
Listening
Michael Cooke - Music for Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SSWqEOMwY
http://www.michaelkcooke.com/bio.html
Thomas Ades - Totentanz (Death Dance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G8ySgSayK8
(@4:15 - interview w/ composer re work, previous to this...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adès
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totentanz_(Adès)
Mason Bates - The B-Sides: V. Warehouse Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZ1HhvZPlg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Bates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-Sides_(composition)
Steven Price - Gravity: Debris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFJdAAXaMRU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Price_(composer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack
Mehdi Hosseini - The Baluch: I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IvipUYrm8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Hosseini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baluch
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Face_(Lady_Gaga_song)
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Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, plus music of Hans Zimmer, Prince, and Erling Wold for the DVCSR group,
then another stint on the western San-Ramon-to-Pleasant-Hill route,
now north from Green Valley Ridge Parking
to
False
Junction,
and
reversing south
to the
Creek.
From here,
a brief looksee around
Macedo Ranch, then homeward on the 228th day of summer, high down 2 to 70
Fairfield / Martinez / Pleasant Hill, 71
Danville, 68
San Ramon, 67
to take in the
fifth
Democratic
Primary
Debate and compose page 6
No Exit, Op. 330
IV. Don't Look Up
