THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 54
Requiem Reveille Rhapsody Romanza
8pm, Saturday, June 17, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 (1845)
I. Allegro affettuoso - Andante espressivo
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Schicksalslied (Song of Fate), Op. 54 (1871, Friedrich Holderlin, 1770-1843)
Slow, with an expression of longing
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Requiem, Op. 54 (1878)
II. Dies Irae
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
16 Children's Songs, Op. 54 (1883)
V. Legend (The Crown of Roses, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, 1825–1893)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
Orchestral March of the 76th Infantry Regiment, Op. 54 (1903)
Introduction
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Suite in D, Op. 54 (1904)
I. Maestoso
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
Mtsïri, Op. 54 (1924, Mikhail Lermontov, 1814-1841)
Moderato assai
Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924)
Prelude Pastorale, Op. 54 (1913)
Moderato assai
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Ad Astra (To the Stars), Op. 54 (1911)
I. Prelude (Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Salome, Op. 54 (1905, after Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, and Hedwig Lachmann, 1865-1918)
Scene IV: Finale
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Swanwhite, Op. 54 (1909, August Strindberg, 1849-1912, Swanwhite, 1909)
I. The Peacock
Megan Cullen, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Concertino, Op. 54 (1921)
II. Perpetuum Mobile
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Two Piano Pieces, Op. 54 (1903)
I. Scottish Legend
Megan Cullen, Piano
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Aenéas, Op. 54 (1935)
Prelude - Allegro con moto
The Opus Project Orchestra
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949)
Six Piano Sonatinas, Op. 54 (1920)
Piano Sonatina No. 1 ("Spring"): I. Allegro molto moderato
Megan Cullen, Piano
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
24 Fantasy Pieces, Suite No. 3, Op. 54
I. Dedicace - Andante espressivo
The Opus Project Orchestra
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Cello Sonata, Op. 54 (1913)
I. Allegro moderato
Aaron Urton, Cello / Megan Cullen, Piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Symphony No. 4 ("The Poem of Ecstasy"), Op. 54 (1907)
Andante. Languido
The Opus Project Orchestra
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
Calm, on the Deserted Quays, Op. 54 (1918, Albert Victor Samain, 1858-1900)
Calme (tres modere)
Megan Cullen, Soprano / The Opus Project Piano Quintet
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Five Choral Ballads, Op. 54 (1904)
I. Beside the Ungathered Rice He Lay (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Rapsodie espagnole (1907)
I. Prelude a la nuit - Tres modere
The Opus Project Orchestra
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
To my Wife, Op. 54 (1906)
I. Now and Always - Ardent and animated (Richard Dehmel, 1863-1920)
Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
Ernst Schmidt (1878-1924)
Violin Concertino No. 2, Op. 54 (1924)
Moderato
Kat Walsh, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
Summerland, Op. 54 (1907)
II. A Song from the East
Megan Cullen, Piano
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937)
I. Assai lento
The Opus Project Orchestra
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Seven Joyce Songs, Op. 54 (1926)
I. Gentle Lady
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959)
Concerto, Op. 54 (1928)
Allegro
Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Sonatina No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 54, No. 1 (1932)
II. Adagietto
Megan Cullen, Piano
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
Two Sonnets, Op. 54 (1935, Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956)
I. God and the Dancing Girl
Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Quiet City (1940)
Slow
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 54 (1939)
I. Largo
Stardust, English Horn / Keith Leung, Trumpet
The Opus Project Orchestra
John Cage (1912-1992)
A Valentine Out of Season (1944)
I. Half = 80
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54 (1954)
Prologue
Mark Alburger, Tenor and [Prepared] Piano
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 54 (1982)
Impetuosamente
Megan Cullen, Piano
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Piano Trio, Op. 54 (1956)
I. Allegro con fuoco
The Opus Project Piano Trio
George Crumb (b. 1929)
American Songbook III: Unto the Hills (2001)
I. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Alexander Goehr (b. 1932)
The mouse metamorphosed into a maid (1993, La Fontaine)
I. ritenuto - a tempo
Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)
Marian Song, Op. 54 (1985)
III. Hail Mary - Lento, Dolcissimo - Cantabilissimo
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Song from Liquid Days (1985)
I. Lightning
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Israel in Trouble, Op. 54 (1997)
VI. Shouldn't Work for Nothing
The Opus Project Orchestra
Stardust (b. 1962)
Dan's Trio No. 1 (2017)
The Opus Project Viola Trio
Kat Walsh (b. 1982)
String Quartet ("Driven") (2017)
The Opus Project String Quartet
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Twin Cans (2017)
Group 1 / Group 2
The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
A Day at Disneyland in the Style of Claude Debussy (2017)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Clarinet
Keith Leung
Bassoon
Kat Walsh
Trumpet
Keith Leung
Soprano
Megan Cullen
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Percussion
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Ken Crawford
Violin I
Kat Walsh
Violin II
Keith Leung
Viola
Greg Zinkl
Cello
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 55: Bard Is the Ward
8pm, Saturday, July 29, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
With the Opus Project Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat ("Eroica"), Op. 55 (1805)
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 55 (1916)
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Symphony No. 2 in A Minor (1859)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55 (1892)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) Chorale Variations for Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 55 (1903)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) Polonaise for Orchestra, Op. 55 (1902)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Song, Op. 55 (1904)
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932) Chorus, Op. 55 (1912)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Symphony No. 1 in Ab Major, Op. 55 (1908)
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) Rigaudon, Op. 55 (1923)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) Turkish March, Op. 55(1926)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Quartet, Op. 55 (1901)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) The Dream of the Fir, Op. 55 (1911)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Bard Songs, Op. 55 (1907)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Motet, Op. 55 (1929)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Night Ride and Sunrise, Op. 55 (1908)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Gypsy Song, Op. 55 (1923)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Invocation, Op. 55 (1904)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Clarinet Sextet, Op. 55 (1945)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Mélodie, Op. 55 (1935)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) Mlada (Youth), Op. 55 (1920)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Deux Chansons, Op. 55 (1911)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Fantasy Piece from Fourth Suite, Op. 56 (1927)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Piano Sketch, Op. 55 (1913)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) Pages Intimes, Op. 55 (1918)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Song, Op. 55 (1901)
Maurice Ravel (1874-1937) Gaspard de la Nuit (1908)
Richard Wetz (1875-1935) Passacaglia, Op. 55 (1930)
Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939) Song, Op. 55 (1933)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Chorus, Op. 55 (1907)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970) Old English Lyric, Op. 55 (1907)
Bela Bartok (1881-1943) Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (1938)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Harnasie, Op. 55 (1931)
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959) Piano Concerto, Op. 55 (1928)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) Concert Etude, Op. 55 (1931)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 55 (1932)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Les Soirees de Petrograde, Op. 55 (1920)
Alois Hába (1893-1973) Suite for Unaccompanied Clarinet, Op. 55 (1943)
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) Against War: Theme and Variations, Op. 55 (1936)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) Heavyweight, or The Glory of the Nation, Op. 55 (1928)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Piano Improvisation on a Theme of da Falla, Op 55 (1927)
Jan Koetsier (1911-2006) Impromptu, Op. 55 (1970)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Still Falls the Rain (Canticle III), Op. 55 (1954)
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996) Ludi Leopoldini (Leopoldini Games), Op. 55 (1980)
Giselher Klebe (1925-2009) The Fairy Tale of the Fair Lily, Op. 55 (1968)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik (2001)
Alexander Goehr (b. 1932) Colossos or Panic for Orchestra, Op. 55 (1992)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) The Passion According to St. Matthew, Op. 55 (1997)
Hussein Al Naswari (b. 1991) It's a Small World a la Mozart, Strauss, Chopin, and Sherman
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