SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas
Rehearsal I
7pm, Thursday, October 26, 2017
Goat Hall, 400 Missouri Street, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting
Program
7:00 Kat Walsh
Driven (3')
0000 0000 11110
7:10 Harry Bernstein / William Severson
Stringtet (2017) (15') 0000 0000 11210 (5)
Stringing me along in the key of U (WS)
Mystery, Theme and Variations (HB)
Stringing me along in the key of X (WS)
7:30 Nancie Kester
Turkish Impressions (2016) (19')
2110 0000 Dulcimer 10011 (8)
8:05 Stardust
True of Voice Finale (2017) (13')
2211 2100 2Perc 11111 (16)
Intervention / Portal / Recovery / Radicalized / Guilty? / Protest
Ideology / Nationalism / Liberation / Impossible Until It's Done
8:30 Break
8:45 Mark Alburger
2017, Op. 261 (2017) (9')
2222 2100 Pf 2Perc 11111 (19)
I. Farewell Address / II. Press Conference
III. Confirmation Hearing / IV. Tweets
V. Phone Calls / VI. Meet the Press
VII. Deutsche Welle / VIII. Joint News Conference
IX. Final Press Conference / X. Confirmation Questions
XI. Inauguration Speech Protests
XII. Women's March on Washington
9:00 John Beeman
Ishi (2017, Carla Brooke) (15')
2222 2100 5V 2Perc 11111 (23)
Scene 4: The Demon Train
Scene 6
9:30 Erling Wold
The Sinking of the Szent István (2017) (15')
2222 2100 Pf 2Perc 11111 (19)
The Strait of Otranto / The Unloved War
Blessed are the young men who hunger and thirst for glory
Ich hatt' einen Kameraden
How beautifully the rockets illuminate the night
***
All of the above in preparation for SFCCO's A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas (8pm, Saturday, November 4, 2017, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA),
on
a
day
beginning
with
Duke Ellington's Concerto for Cootie (Dictation / Board-Harmony, still catching up from 2 week's ago's fire-cancelled class) and
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar (+ Keyboard-Solfege), in addition to
Quiz 11 (works, besides the former, including those of Bela Bartok, Jester Hairston, Richard Rodgers, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage).
Print up bound parts for 2017,
and
rousingly
head
towards rehearsal,
on
the
206th
of
summer, high down 1 to 89...
Pleasant Hill, 92
Pinole, 91
Berkeley, 82
San Francisco, 85
... editing Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272: XII. Psalm 92, Op. 9 (1977, Psalms) - Community Music Center, San Francisco, 2012 late.
