THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 59
Mysterious Wonder
8pm, Saturday, November 18, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Cesar Cui (1835-1918)
Seven Vocal Quartets, Op. 59 (1901)
II. Pale Blue
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
"Pan Voyevoda [The Gentleman Provincial Governor]" Suite, Op. 59 (1904)
I. Introduction
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914)
Russian Folk Songs, Op. 59 (1907)
I. When Spring Comes - Moderato
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Song Cycle for Voice and Orchestra, Op. 59 (1910, Gilbert Parker, 1862-1932)
VI. Twilight
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
Hymn to Work, Op. 59 (1927)
Introduction
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Vespers, Op. 59 (1912)
I. Psalm 140 "Praise the Lord"
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59 (1911)
Act I - Introduction
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
In Memoriam, Funeral March for Orchestra, Op. 59 (1909)
Grave e maestoso - Finale
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
The Sea-Fairies, Op. 59 (1907, Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892)
Adagio
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Elpénor, Op. 59 (1937)
Prelude - Lent
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
Scherzo Vif, Op. 59 (1910)
Assez anime
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Symphony No. 6, Op. 59 (1930)
I. Introduction - Poco agitato e a piacere
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Piano Concerto (1930)
I. Toccata - Allegro Moderato
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Scherzo: Over the Pavements (1910)
Allegro
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59 (1905)
X. Deep River
Bela Bartok (1881-1943)
Divertimento (1939)
I. Allegro non troppo
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Oedipus Rex (1927)
Act II - Gloria
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Litany to the Virgin Mary, Op. 59 (1933)
I. O Sonorous 12-String Zither - Andante. Molto tranquillo.
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Concerto, Op. 59 (1962)
I. Moderato
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
King Vahaken: Ballet - Is There Survival?, Op. 59 (1949)
I. Overture - Andante
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Noye's Fludde, Op. 59 (1957)
Majestic
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 (1957)
II. Vivace
Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943)
Hommage à Johannes Brahms, Op. 59 (1982)
Un poco sostenuto
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Mice Suite No. 3, Op. 59 (1998)
III. Dreamsong II
Feona Lee Jones (b. 1986)
Piano Piece
Two Sopranos, Piano, and String Quartet
Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Zumba Fireworks Spectacular
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Bassoon / Alto Saxophone
Tim Machajewski
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Baritone
Brian Phelan
Percussion
Harlan Otter
Hussein Al-Naswari
Violin / Viola
Kat Walsh
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 60
Symphonies of the Air
8pm, Saturday, December 16, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA
With the Opus Project Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1170-1827) Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60 (1806)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op. 60, No. 1 (1845)
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Suite Algérienne, Op. 60 (1880)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) A Page from Homer, Op. 56 (1901)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) Little Gregorian Chant, Op. 60 (1904)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Composition, Op. 60 (1907)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) Song from Obichod, Op. 60 (1909)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) Japanese Poem, Op. 60 (1928)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Song, Op. 60 (1912)
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932) Gently into Nothing, Op. 60 (1909)
Edward MacDowell (1860 1908) Song, Op. 60 (1902)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Romance, Op. 60 (1902)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Praise the Name of the Lord, Op. 60 (1912)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60 (1912)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Song for Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Op. 60 (1909)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) En Habit de Cheval (1911)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Variations on Balkan Themes, Op. 60 (1906)
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) Piano Sonata ("French"), Op. 60 (1919)
Ede Poldini (1869-1957) En voyage, Op. 60 (1913)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) From One's Life, Op. 60 (1932)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Motet, Op. 60 (1917)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Greek Poem, Op. 60 (1930)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 60 (1915)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Symphony No. 5 ("Poem of Fire"), Op. 60 (1910)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (1931)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) Suite en Forme de Sonate, Op. 60 (1918)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 60 (1901)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) The Gong on the Hook and Ladder (1911)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Pentecost Motet, Op. 60 (1909)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 (1932)
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959) Opera Salambo, Op. 60 (1929)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) Music for Orchestra and Baritone, Op. 60 (1931)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Lieutenant Kije, Op. 60 (1934)
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) Kammerkantate No.3: Römische Kantate, Op. 60 (1937)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Lincoln Portrait (1942)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) Life of Orestes, Op. 60 (1929)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Piano Rondo, Op. 60 (1958)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No. 7, Op. 60 (1941)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Nocturne, Op. 60 (1958)
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) Little Piano Book, Op. 60 (1953)
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996) Unaccompanied Viola Sonata, Op. 60 (1981)
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010) Totus Tuus, Op. 60 (1987)
Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 60 (1991)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Prelude and Fugue ("Topical"), Op. 60, No. 1 (1998)
***
What a concert!
What a day!
Beginning
with
getting down to
Cybercopy again to print up programs, etc.,
then off to Diablo Valley College rehearsing the upcoming Goat Hall 20th-Anniversary Cabaret Concert (7:30pm, Friday, December 1),
with Harriet, Kathy, and Frank --
particularly
Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272.
17th day of fall,
high up 2 to 64
(Pleasant Hill, 65 / Pinole, 60),
with the editing of page 9 The Decameron: Ninth Day, Op. 270: Novel II - An abbess rises in haste upon return, as well as preparing for Opus 60...
