May 5 - Ready, Set


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director

Alternate Facts and Lying Together

Dress Rehearsal, 7pm, Friday, May 5, 2017
Park Presidio United Methodist Church, 4301 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and Martha Stoddard, conducting

Program

7:00 
   Stardust (b. 1962)
      True of Voice Entr'acte (2017) (8')
         Act V     Scene 1: "Letting Down the Ladder"
                        Scene 2: "Queens' Romance"
                        Scene 3: "Gender Communion"
         Act VI    Scene 1: "Visit to the Tomb"
                        Scene 2: "Queens and Nomarchs"
                        Scene 3: "Debutante Ball"
        Act VII    Scene 1: "Drama at Court" ("Opet Festival" Refrain)
                        Scene 2: "Maat"
           2211 1110 Pf 2Perc 11111 (17)
      
7:30  
   Mark Alburger (b. 1957)  
      The Decameron: Seventh Day ("Cheating Wives and Other Indiscretions"),
         Op. 262 (2017) (9-15')
         Novel 1. Gianni Lotteringhi hears the knocking of his wife's lover
         Novel II - Peronella bestows her lover in a barrel
         Novel III -  Fra Rinaldo lies with his gossip
         Novel IV - Tofano locks his wife out of the house
         Novel IX - Lydia and Pyrrhus make Nicostratus believe that
            what he saw was not real
         Novel X - Tingoccio returns from the other world
            2211 1110 Pf 2Perc 11111 (17)

8:00  
   Scott Sterling (b. 1970)  
      Musical Portraits No. 2 (2017) (6')
         Promenade No. 1 / Child's Playroom / Child's Game of Ball
         The Courtiers / Promenade No. 2 / The Centipede
         The Millipede / Short Promenade No. 2 / Rapids
         Waterfall and River / The Spelunker / Short Promenade No. 1
         Ascending Steps / Old House with Creaking Door / Dark Clouds
         Short Promenade No. 2 / Statue of the Founder
            1111 1110 Perc 11111 (13)

8:25  
   Break



8:40  
   Davide Verotta (b. 1958)  
      Felicitá? (Happiness?) (2017) (9')
         2111 1110 3Perc 11111 (16)


9:10  
   Harry Bernstein (b. 1948)  
      Quintetessence (2017) (6')
         I. Easy, with moderate swing
         II. Con passione
            0000 0000 11210 (5)

9:30  
   Leon Hyman (b. 1927)  
      Ubnucho (2012) / Yehi Hasdecha (2013) / Psalm 23 (2015) (9')
         0000 0000 11110 (4)


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to


79 --



San Rafael, 64

 
San Francisco, 61 --



composing  


The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel I - Gulfardo Borrows Moneys of Guasparruolo somewhere in the mix...