Migratory Species return

I saw an osprey yesterday, then a pair of cormorants today. Read that the herring are running over on the Vineyard. The first New Yorkers started occasional appearances 2 weeks ago but now sightings are getting common.

Staging of "The King in Thule"

A brief note: The King in Thule has three soloists and a backup chorus. The soloists are Faust, Mephisto, and Margaret. The piece begins with a horn ensemble, followed by a song by Faust and Mephisto. It could be staged like this:

Faust, Mephisto, and Margaret are in the marketplace, walking around. Faust and Mephisto pass Margaret and both she and Faust turn back to look at each other, while walking on. Then Faust starts making plans with the devil to get the love of Margaret. While they are plotting, she feels a shiver run along her spine. Then both Faust and Margaret sing songs of love about the other. Margaret's song devolves into a folk song about the King in Thule. Later they plant the jewels in her room, later she finds them, it does not work out etc. Most of the action can be either in the marketplace or in (or just outside) Margaret's room. Structurally, I am not sure where the best place is to put the choral version of the folk song. So I put stage it during the hiding of the jewels.

When Meg finds the jewels she is horrified. She shows them to her mother, who gives them to a priest. The devil watches. This pisses off the devil who sings "by the pangs of despised love" and "the jewels for Margaret" and he and Faust exit, singing "Let's Go".

Peter Waksman In a Tuxedo

for the Mozart Requiem by the Falmouth Chorale:

King in Thule Commentary

Woods Hole Bragging

Woods Hole is known as a famous scientific community, containing important private institutions like the Oceanographic and the MBL, as well as public NOAA, USGS, and Coast Guard. The town is located where there is the only deep water harbor on the Cape and where the fishing is good.
But I find it equally important that Woods Hole is a fishing village, a place with many talented carpenters and boat builders and a place where instrumentation, gadgetry, and craftsmanship are valued and available. I went to a seminar at the Oceanographic where they bragged about how other people would develop "marine" technologies and then be forced to come to the Oceanographic to find people who knew how to make underwater electrical connectors. The 'craftsman' community in Woods Hole is as intense as the scientific one.

Not all narrative structures are linguistic

For example the smell of fear or the sound of disappointment. Or am I going to far?

I guess narrative pattern could mean: a re-useable template for connecting ideas