Haiku 2010/31

Waiting on platforms
Impatiently peering down
Those long empty tracks

fun stuff I may or may not get to: February

San Francisco Performances has an evening of modern music with Midori on February 6, and their annual subscriber concert on February 9, featuring 2009 Naumburg Competition winners Trio Cavatina.

Cal Performances presents Ragnar Bohlin conducting the Swedish Radio Choir on February 28.

It’s a big month for choral concerts: Volti performs new music on February 26-28 and Magnificat performs old music on February 12-14.

The San Francisco Symphony presents Schubert’s Mass No. 2 with A Concord Symphony, Henry Brant’s orchestration of the Ives sonata.

Berkeley Opera presents Eugene Brancoveanu as Don Giovanni in its new venue, which has got to be an improvement over the Julia Morgan Theater.

ACT presents Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, in a new production directed by John Doyle, who did the recent Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd (you know the one: Patti Lupone plays the tuba!).

The San Francisco Ballet presents Program 2, a mixed program featuring works by Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon, and Paul Taylor, and Program 3, which is all Balanchine.

Haiku 2010/30

Already unused
to bright sun, I scan the sky
for rising rain clouds

Haiku 2010/29

Were they real or dreamt,
Those strange noises in the night?
Nature, stay outside!

Haiku 2010/28

Cafeteria:
Fat bald man with booming voice:
Inescapable

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Winter-clad shoppers
Glancing quickly at rows of
Bright tropical fruits

Haiku 2010/27

(for MVD)

Water, birds, and clouds:
Where would we be without them?
Cleansing, flowing, flight

Islamic tiles

from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Haiku 2010/26

Vertical towers
Swirling clouds and slanting rain
Horizontal streets

Haiku 2010/25

Corpulent corpses
Jitter jauntily homeward:
Stench of rotting meat

Haiku 2010/24

Afternoon music:
Then home under birdless skies,
On streets slick with rain