THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 60
Birthday Suite
8pm, Saturday, December 16, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60 (1806)
I. Adagio - Allegro vivace
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Suite Algérienne, Op. 60 (1880)
IV. French Military March - Alla giocoso
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
A Page from Homer: Prelude-Cantata, Op. 60 (1901)
Allegro tempestuoso
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60 (1912, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1874-1929)
Overture - Andante
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Two Songs for William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Op. 60 (1909)
I. Come away, Death! - Lento
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
En Habit de Cheval (In Horse's Clothing, 1911)
I. Choral / II. Fugue Litanique
III. Autre Choral / Fugue de Papier
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Symphony No. 5 ("Prometheus - Poem of Fire"), Op. 60 (1910)
Lento - Misty
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (1931)
I. Allegro
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Mother Goose (1910)
V. Le Jardin Feerique
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Symphony No. 4 ("Symphonie Concertante"), Op. 60 (1932)
I. Moderato
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Lieutenant Kije, Op. 60 (1934)
IV. Troika
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Lincoln Portrait (1942)
Introduction
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 7 ("Leningrad"), Op. 60 (1941)
I. Allegretto
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
12 Preludes and Fugues ("Topical"), Op. 60 (1998)
Ib. Another Cognitive Disorder (Fugue)
The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
San Francisco Symphony Fireworks Spectacular (2017)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Clarinet
Peter Brown
Soprano
Megan Cullen
Mezzo Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Baritone
Brian Phelan
Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Brian Phelan
Mia Primrose
Violin
Olga Raldugina
Viola
Adrienne Johnson
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 61
Sax and Violins
8pm, Saturday, January 27, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA
With the Opus Project Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 (1806)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (1842)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61 (1846)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) At the Grave, Op. 61 (1904)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) Summer Day in the Mountains, Op. 61 (1905)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61 (1910)
Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 61 (1915)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) The Goblet, Op. 61 (1902)
Felix Weingartner (1863-1942) Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Op. 61 (1916)
Alexander Glazunov (1864-1956) The Ruses of Love, Op. 61 (1900)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Festival Prelude, Op. 61 (1913)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Flabby Prelude (for a Dog) (1912)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Job: A Masque for Dancing (1930)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) Symphony No. 3 ("The Camp Meeting") (1911)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911)
Bela Bartok (1881-1943) Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra (1940)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Etude for Orchestra (1928)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1933)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Ballade, Op. 61 (1920)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Double Piano Concerto (1932)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Lincoln Portrait (1942)
Boris Blacher (1903-1975) Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Clementi Variations"), Op. 61
Pal Kadosa (1903-1983) Kaleidoscope, Op. 61, No. 3 and 4 (1967)
Paul Creston (1906-1985) Celebration Overture, Op. 61 (1954)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991) Organ / Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 61
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996) Steinbeis-Serenade, Op. 61 (1981)
Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 61 (1957)
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010) Marimba Concerto, Op. 61 (1997)
Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943) Flute Concerto, Op. 61 (1983)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Symphony No. 1 in C Major, ("It wasn't classical…"), Op. 61 (1998)
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And another superb show!
Wow!
Five years!
On a day
(42nd of fall, high up 2 to 63 --
Pleasant Hill, 67)
including another trip to Cybercopy and the persuance of refreshments
(immediate
and for the festive eve), with editing Page 21 new-edition Symphony No. 1 ("It Wasn't Classical…"), Op. 61 (1998): I. Allegro con brio late upon return...
