SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas
Rehearsal III
7pm, Thursday, November 2, 2017
Goat Hall, 400 Missouri Street, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting
Program
7:00 Kat Walsh
Driven (2017) (3')
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7:10 William Severson
Harry Bernstein
Stringtet (2017) (9')
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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)
8:00 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
8:25 Break
8:40 Mark Alburger
2017, Op. 261 (2017) (8')
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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 11211 (24)
Scene 4: The Demon Train
Scene 6: The Dinner
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
***
Ever
upward,
including
an
early
morning
rendezvous
with
the
Theoreticians, for Board Harmony on excerpts from John Williams's Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back --
on
the wonderful but barely 213th day of summer, high 70...
Pleasant Hill, 71
Pinole, 64
San Francisco, 66
-- finishing editing
Tropes on Benjamin Britten's Songs from the Chinese, Op. 271: I. The Big Chariot (3 pages total) upon late return...
