Tuning the Air 165

A Tuning the Air Journal

Thursday October 8, 2009 – Tuning the Air 165

Just 2 of us for the sitting this morning. Straight to a guitar lesson. Then Mary Beth and I headed over to Fremont Abbey Arts Center to hang up the “Tonight!” banner and set out the sandwich boards.

My teaching schedule has been decimated this week; a combination of whatever cold/flu is going around and a simple confluence of scheduling issues, so I have an unusual amount of free time today. Bonus! I am in the middle of an irritating and time consuming but necessary task, and this helps. Plus I can warm up at my leisure before the show.

The biggest news for tonight is the return of Joel Palmer to the preshow. The boom boxes sufficed, but there is nothing quite like having a musician who can think on his feet and respond to the circumstances. On the table:

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Tuning the Air 165
Thursday October 8, 2009
Fremont Abbey Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Fall Season Show #3

Preshow:

Joel Palmer Improvisations

Set:

Entrance and Zither - F Harmonic Minor
Tuning The Air - F Harmonic Minor
Zither - F Harmonic Minor: double reverse
The Wig Maker (Gibson)
Sigh and a Kiss (Williams)
Cultivating the Beat (Williams)

Prelude XXII in G Minor (Shostakovich)
Circulation in C Harmonic Minor
Voices of Ancient Children (Kabusacki/Nunez)
Batrachomyomachy (Geballe)

Aquarela do Brasil (Barrosa)
Circulation in C Major
In My Room (Wilson)

If we are going to address the audience, here is where

Tuning The Air - KfaD scale
Mevlevi Greeting - KfaD scale
King for a Day (Jensen)

My Precious Dream (Binder)
The Bus Artist (Abuladze/Metcalf)
Kashmir (Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham)
Twilight (Williams)

Encore Potential:

49 Notes (Golden)
Eye of the Needle (Fripp)
Lament (Geballe)
Little Gangsters (Little Gangsters) (Abuladze)
Music for a Found Harmonium (Jeffes)
Thrak (Fripp)