THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 49
8pm, Saturday, January 28, 2017
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA
Program
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
In Italien Overture, Op. 49 (1904)
Allegro con fuoco
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
1812 Festival Overture, Op. 49 (1880)
Finale
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Flower Songs, Op. 49 (1902)
III. The Foxglove
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Apostles, Op. 49 (1903)
Prologue (Lento)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
Basque Fantasy, Op. 49 (1927)
Assez vif
The Opus Project Orchestra
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Eight Songs, Op. 49 (1901)
I. Bliss in the Woods (Richard Dehmel, 1863-1920)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Pan and Syrinx: Nature Scene for Orchestra, Op. 49 (1918)
Andantino (quasi allegretto)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 (1906)
Largo - Moderato - Largamente
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
Three Chorales, Op. 49, No. 2 (1912)
II. La Charite (Adagio con moto. Tres doux et lie)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Three Pieces, Op. 49 (1933)
I. Allegro con brio
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
Etude for "The Haunted Palace" of Edgar [Allan] Poe [1809-1849],
Op. 49 (1904)
Lent
Mark Alburger, Piano
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 49 (1912)
I. Allegro Moderato - Cadenza
Kristen Kline, Violin
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 49 (1905)
II. Prelude (Bruscamente irato)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Two Sonatas, Op. 49 (1900)
Sonata No. 1 in Ab Major: I. Allegro affanate
Alan Kingsley, Flute
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Double Violin Concerto, Op. 49 (1929)
I. Scherzo (Allegro)
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957)
Etude Concertante for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op. 49 (1936)
Allegro molto
Michael Cox, Trumpet / Kristen Kline and Corey Johnson, Violins
The Opus Project Orchestra
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
Wind Trio, Op. 49 (1902)
III. Double Fugue
The Opus Project Wind Trio
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
20 Children's Rhymes for Voice and Piano, Op. 49 (1923)
III. The House
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Kleinstadtbilder, 14 Moderately Easy Piano Pieces, Op. 49 (1929)
III. Oh, I did... (Slowly)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Four Portraits and a Denouement from "The Gambler", Op. 49 (1931)
I. Alexis (Allegro passionato)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
[Chamber] Symphony No. 2 ("Pastorale"), Op. 49 (1918)
I. Joyeux
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Konzertmusik, Op. 49 (1930)
Quiet andante, in quarter notes
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Concert Champêtre For Harpsichord or Piano and Orchestra (1928)
I. [Adagio -]Allegro molto
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
An Outdoor Overture (1938)
Maestoso
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)
Der Diktator, Op. 49 (1926)
Scene I: Largamente / Allegro
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49 (1949)
I. Allegro
Kat Walsh, Bassoon / The Opus Project Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 49 (1938)
I. Moderato
The Opus Project Quartet
John Cage (1912-1992)
Root of an Unfocus, for Prepared Piano (1944)
Mark Alburger, Prepared Piano
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49 (1951)
IV. BACCHUS at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling
women's tattling tongues and shouting out of boys
Stardust, Oboe
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Sonata, Op. 49 (1979)
I. PRIMA PARTE - Allegro deciso
George Crumb (b. 1929)
An Idyll for the Misbegotten (Images III) (1986)
(to be heard from afar, over a lake, on a moonlit evening in August)
Lento, con alcuna licenza
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano Strings
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)
Three Lullabies, Opus 49 (1984)
I. Go to Sleep
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Business As Usual, Op. 49 (1993)
Ib. Six Friday Nights
Stardust (b. 1962)
Post-Truth (2017)
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
Joyful Cycle (2016)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
San Francisco Fireworks Spectacular (2017)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley*
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust*
Bassoon
Kat Walsh
Trumpet
Michael Cox*
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Violin I
Kristen Kline
Violin II
Corey Johnson
Viola
Nansamba Ssesalo
*The Opus Project Wind Trio
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 50: Even Wild
8pm, Saturday, February 25, 2017
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, CA
With The Opus Project Orchestra
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) Pavane, Op. 50 (1887)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Pater Noster, Op. 50, No. 2 (1902)
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932) Piano Trio No. 4 in C Minor (1904)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 (1904)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) On the Volga, Op. 50 (1910)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Egyptian Nights, Op. 50 (1900)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Sister Beatrice, Op. 50 (1910)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) The Lack of Fire, Op. 50 (1901)
Robert Kahn (1865-1952) Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 50 (1907)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (1922)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) A Maiden Sings in the Field, Op. 50, No. 3 (1906)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Harlequin, Op. 50 (1916)
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) Ballade for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 50 (1919)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) The Hour of Return, Op. 50, No. 1 (1934)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) The Tragedy of Salome, Op. 50 (1907)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Poeme for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 50 (1926)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Piano Quartet No. 2, Op. 50 (1912)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Riders to the Sea (1925)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) String Quartet No. 2, Op 50 (1916)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 50, No. 2 (1900)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Wandering Scholar, Op. 50 (1930)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Psalm 130 ("De Profundis"), Op. 50b (1949)
Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939) Queen Margrethe, Op. 50 (1919)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970) Afterday, Op. 50 No. 1 (1906)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Mavra (1922)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Piano Mazurka, Op. 50 (1925)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) Cello Sonata, Op. 50 (1929)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) String Quartet No. 1, Op. 50 (1930)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Konzertmusik, Op. 50 (1930)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Piece Breve sur le Nom d'Albert Roussel (1929)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) The Secret Kingdom, Op. 50 (1927)
Boris Blacher (1903-1975) The Moor of Venice, Op. 50 (1955)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major ("Youth"), Op. 50 (1952)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Elibris (God of Dawn), Op. 50 (1944)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Billy Budd, Op. 50 (1951)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Guitar Serenade, Op. 50 (1955)
Giselher Klebe (1925-2009) Concerto for Five, Op. 50 (1965)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Zeitgeist (Tableau Vivant) (1988)
Alexander Goehr (b. 1932) …in real time, Op. 50 (1988)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Mishima (1984)
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010) String Quartet No. 2, Op. 50 (1991)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) L.A. Stories, Op. 50 (1994)
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Some fabulous performances,
on the sunny 25th day of spring, high 61 locally and in SF (60 Pleasant Hill), tying for the highest of the year (with January 8's 2.35 downpour) -- composing 24 Tone Preludes: IX. Serenadis Interruptus, page 4, upon return...
