November 18 - The Opus Project presents Opus 59


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)

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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...