MARK ALBURGER, 2017

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')
                    0000 0000 11110

7:10    William Severson
           Harry Bernstein
               Stringtet (2017) (9')
                    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)

8:00    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')
                    2222 2100 Pf 2Perc 11211 (20)
                    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

early

morning

rendezvous

with

the

Theoreticians, for Board Harmony on excerpts from John Williams's Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back --

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...

Write Your Own Minimalist Passage, in Bass Cleff

(A series of notes featuring repetition)

Three C Seventh Chords (To be written on staff in Bass Clef)

              Major 7th      Dominant 7th     Minor 7th

7                  B                   Bb                     Bb
5                  G                   G                       G
3                  E                    E                       Eb
Root            C                    C                       C

Constituent Triads and 7th Intervals in Three Seventh-Chords

Seventh Chord                    Triad (Major or minor)     Seventh Interval
                                                      (M    or   m)              (M    or    m)

Major 7th = M7 Chord          =          MT               +              M7 Interval

Dominant 7th = 7 Chord     =    MT + m7 Interval

Minor 7th      = m7 Chord    =            mT              +              m7 Interval

Three Periods of Aesthetic History after Baroque and Before 21st-Century, and Dates

Classical, 1750-1825

Romantic, 1825-1900

20th-Century, 1900-2000

Listening

Sting - Every Breath You Take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take

Mark Alburger - Camino Real: Block 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dJSGkCrxA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alburger

http://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2003/02/camino-real-op-10.html

Tan Dun - Ghost Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtpgURs9c5Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Dun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Dun:_Ghost_Opera

Hans Zimmer - Interstellar: Cornfield Chase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vko01D77Fg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(soundtrack)

Erling Wold - Sub Pontio Pilato: Credo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PCkw3yNZDQ (@ 1:33:05)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Wold

http://www.erlingwold.com/listofworks.html

Prince - Darling Nikki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyX8w7R7xx8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Nikki

***

Quiz 12 for the Music Historians,

after

another

beautiful

morning

commute

and

before

setting

off

once

again

on Alamo Creek Trail,

now from Japonica

north

its

junction

with

the

Lower

Path,

then

returning

south

below

Monarch

Ridge

towards

Eucalyptus

Bend

point

origin.

these

wonderful

days!

How

long

will

summer

last?

This being the 212th of such,

high down 4 to 73, locally and in Pleasant Hill (San Ramon, 71 / Pinole, 63) and the editing of page 2 Tropes on Benjamin Britten's Songs from the Chinese, Op. 271: I. The Big Chariot...

MARK ALBURGER, 2017

November 2 - The Set Up

November 1 - All Souls