October 29 - Free Style


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director

A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas
Rehearsal II
7pm, Sunday, October 29, 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) (15')
                     0000 0000 11210 (5)
                    Stringing me along in the key of U (WS)
                    Stringing me along in the key of X (WS)
                    Mystery, Theme and Variations (HB)


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)  (9')
                    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

***


Much


progress


in


the second SFCCO rehearsal of AFAFEOI (8pm, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA),


on


the


209th day of summer,


high 79...


Pinole, 57



Berkeley, 58


San Francisco,


59...


preparing


for


publication 


Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272: XV. Portraits of __ (Some Multiple of 3) Women, Op. 231 (2014, Roland March): IX. Olivia (July 10-11, 2015, Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA)...

October 28 - The Opus Project presents Opus 58


THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 58
Haunted

8pm, Saturday, October 28, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA


Program


Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)     
     Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (1806)
          I. Allegro moderato


Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)     
     Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (1885)
          I. Lento lugubre
                       
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)            
     Lygeia, Op. 58 (1906)
          Chorus of Sirens

Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914)         
     Russian Folksong for Orchestra, Op. 58 (1906)
          I. Chant religieux - Geistliche Strophe (Moderato)

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)         
     Elegy, Op. 58 (1909)
          Adagio

Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924)     
     Prelude and Fugue in Bb Minor, Op. 58 (1913)
          Fugue

Anton Arensky (1861-1906)         
     The Wolves, Op. 58 (1902)
          Andante maestoso

Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)     
     Passion Week, Op. 58 (1912)
          I. Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh at Midnight

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)         
     Elektra, Op. 58 (1909)
          Moderately slow

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)         
     Commotio, Op. 58 (1931)
          Adagio

          Tim Machajewski, Bassoon / Carol Reynolds, Piano
          Kat Walsh, Alto / The Opus Project Orchestra

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)         
     Piano Piece, Op. 58 (1909)
          I. Reverie - Lento

Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)      
     Oboe Sonata, Op. 58 (1916)
          I. Allegro moderato (Pastoral - The Earth - Work in the Fields - Evening)

         Stardust, Oboe / Mark Alburger, Piano
                 
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)         
     String Trio, Op. 58 (1937)
          I. Allegro moderato

          The Opus Project String Trio

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)         
     Little Elf Shut-Eye Week, or The Dreams of Hialmar, Op. 58 (1912)
          I. The Mouse's Wedding

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)         
     Triptyque, Op. 58 (1931)
          I. Matines - Allegro moderato

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Paul Juon (1872-1940)         
     Two Easy Piano Waltzes, Op. 58 (1913)
          I. Farfalla

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)     
     Album Leaf, Op. 58 (1910)
          Con delicatezza

          Mark Alburger, Piano

Frederick Holloway (1873-954)     
     Suite Ancienne, Op. 58 (1913)
          I. Prelude Chorale

Max Reger (1873-1916)         
     Burlesque, Op. 58 (1901)
           I. Very Lively

           The Opus Project Orchestra

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)     
     Four African Dances (1904)
          I. Allegro

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)         
     Menuet sur le Nom de Haydn (1909)
          Mouvement de Menuet

          Corey Johnson, Violin / Mark Alburger, Piano

Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939)         
     Three Songs, Op. 58 (1930)
          II. Lyngby (Gyrithe Lemche, 1866-1945)

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)     
     Inner Feelings, Op. 58 (1919)
          VII. Your Remembrance

Cyril Scott (1879-1970)         
     Alpine Sketch, Op. 58 (1908)
          I. Rather slowly

          Mark Alburger, Piano

Nicolai Medtner (1880 -1951)     
     Two Pieces, Op. 58 (1945)
          II. Knight Errant

Bela Bartok (1881-1943)         
     Seven Pieces from Mikrokosmos (1940)
          V. New Hungarian Folk Song - Ben Ritmato

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)     
     Kurpian Songs, Op. 58 (1932)
          I. The White Swans

Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)         
     Tarjetas postales (Postcards), Op. 58 (1930)
          III. Madrid

Ernst Toch (1887-1965)         
     Ten Easy Etudes, Op. 58 (1931)
           V. Very calm

           Mark Alburger, Voice and Piano

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)      
     Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 58 (1951)
          Andante

          Aaron Urton, Cello / The Opus Project Orchestra

Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)         
     Le Boeuf sur le Toit or The Nothing Doing Bar, Op. 58 (1920)
          Theme of the Barman - Anime / Entrance of the Blacks

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)         
     Little Symphony, Op. 58 (1928)
                        I. Andante sostenuto

Paul Creston (1906-1985)         
     Invocation and Dance, Op. 58 (1953)
          Slow

Jan Koetsier (1911-2006)         
     Sonatina, Op. 58 (1970)
          II. Andante mesto

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)     
     Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58 (1957)
          V. Depression (Po Chu-i, 772-846) - Very slow and tired

Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)     
     Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 58 (1952)
          Animato

          Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano / Aaron Urton, Guitar

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)         
     Horn Concerto No. 2, Op. 58 (1956)
          I. Con energico

          Stardust, English Horn / The Opus Project Orchestra

George Crumb (b. 1929)         
     Otherworldly Resonances (2003)
          I. Double Helix - Very slowly, with a Zen-like intensity of concentration

Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)         
     For You, Anne-Lill, Op. 58 (1986)
          Lento cantabile

Jacques Hetu (1938-2010)         
     Violin Sonata, Op. 58 (1996)
          I. Adagio

          Alan Kingsley, Flute / Kristen Kline, Violin
          Mark Alburger, Piano

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)         
     The Ten Commandments, Op. 58 (1997)
          Moderato - Dotted Quarter / Half = 60

          The Opus Project Orchestra


Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
     Halloween Spectacular (2017)

          Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano

    

THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger                     Music Director and Conductor

Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley

Oboe / English Horn
Stardust

Bassoon
Tim Machajewski

Trumpet
Alejandro Lara-Agraz

Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Markus Alvarez
Adrienne Johnson
Carol Reynolds

Alto
Kat Walsh

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Guitar
Aaron Urton

Percussion
Ken Crawford
Hussein Al-Naswari

Violin I
Corey Johnson
Kristen Kline

Violin II
Alex Raldugin
Olga Raldugina

Viola
Kat Walsh

Cello
Aaron Urton


THE OPUS PROJECT presents

OPUS 59: Mysterious Wonder - 8pm, Saturday, November 18, 2017, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

With the Opus Project Orchestra

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)         Pan Voyevoda Suite, Op. 59 (1904)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)            Violin Sonata in C Major, Op. 59 (1904)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)               Song with Violin, Op. 59 (1906)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914)            Russian Folk Songs, Op. 59 (1907)
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932)            Azzopardi Etudes, Op. 59 (1913)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)            Song Cycle for Voice and Orchestra, Op. 59 (1910)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)             Hymn to Work, Op. 59 (1927)
Edward MacDowell (1860 1908)             Piano Sonata No. 4, ("Keltic") (1901)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)            Children's Song, Op. 59 (1902)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)            Vespers, Op. 59 (1912)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)            Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59 (1911)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)            Piano Piece, Op. 59 (1928)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)            In Memoriam, Funeral March for Orchestra, Op. 59 (1909)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)            The Sea-Fairies, Op. 59 (1907)
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)            Piano Sonata, Op. 59 (1916)
Ede Poldini (1869-1957)            Spring Waltz, Op.59 (1913)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)            Elpénor, Op. 59 (1937)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949)         Nikotina, Op. 59 (1929)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)            Scherzo Vif, Op. 59 (1910)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)            Symphony No. 6, Op. 59 (1930)
Paul Juon (1872-1940)            Mysterien, Op. 59 (1928)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)            Piano Piece, Op. 59 (1910)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)            Piano Concerto in C Major (1931)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)            Aquarelles, op. 59 (1917)
Max Reger (1873-1916)            Piece, Op. 59 (1901)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)            Scherzo: Over the Pavements (1910)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)            Saint Francois d'Assise (1910)
Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939)            Song, Op. 59 (1930)
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957)            Piano Piece, Op. 59 (1938)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)             Violin Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 59 (1908)
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954)            The Death of Cleopatra, Op. 59 (1944)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)            Oedipus Rex (1927)   
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)            Litany to the Virgin Mary, Op. 59 (1933)
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)                Suite, Op. 59 (1945)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)            Beginner's Etude, Op. 59 (1931)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)         Piano Piece, Op. 59 (1934)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)            Cocteau Poeme, Op. 59 (1920)
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)             Kammerkantate No. 2 ("White Bread Cantata"), Op. 59 (1937)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)            An Outdoor Overture (1941)
Paul Creston (1906-1985)            La Lettre, Op. 59 (1954)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)                Is There Survival? ("King Vahaken"), Op. 59 (1949)
Jan Koetsier (1911-2006)            Horn Sonatina, Op. 59 (1970)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)            Noye's Fludde, Op. 59 (1957)
Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)            String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59 (1957)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)                Scottish Dance, Op. 59 (1957)
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)                Aria for Tuba, Piano, Tam-Tam, and Bass Drum (1987)
Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943)            Hommage à Johannes Brahms, Op. 59 (1982)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)            Mice Suite No. 3, Op. 59 (1998)

...and your music, should you so desire!

***


Wonderful


concert,


on


the


208th


 day


of


summer, high down 3 again to 83 (Pinole, 61 / Pleasant Hill, 85) -- editing  



Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272: XIV. Abducted by Aliens, Op. 222 (2014, Wikipedia): I. Gemini VII Bogey (July 11-12, 2014, Community Music Center, San Francisco) very late...

October 27 - Looming


Errands about town,


preparing for The Opus Project presents Opus 58 (8pm, Saturday, October 28, Diablo Valley College Music, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA), and editing


Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272:  XIII. Decameron: 1st Day, Op. 200 (2012, Boccaccio) - Community Music Center, San Francisco, 2013 -- on the 207th day of summer, high down 3 to 86...

October 26 - Full House


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director

A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas
Rehearsal I

7pm, Thursday, October 26, 2017
Goat Hall, 400 Missouri Street, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting



Program

7:00    Kat Walsh       
             Driven (3')
                0000 0000 11110


7:10    Harry Bernstein / William Severson      
               Stringtet (2017) (15') 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)



8:05    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

8:30    Break


8:45    Mark Alburger        
               2017, Op. 261 (2017)  (9')
                    2222 2100 Pf 2Perc 11111 (19)
                    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 11111 (23)
                    Scene 4: The Demon Train
                    Scene 6


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

***


All of the above in preparation for SFCCO's A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas (8pm, Saturday, November 4, 2017, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA),


on


a


 

day


beginning


with


Duke Ellington's Concerto for Cootie (Dictation / Board-Harmony, still catching up from 2 week's ago's fire-cancelled class) and


Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar (+ Keyboard-Solfege), in addition to 


Quiz 11 (works, besides the former, including those of Bela Bartok, Jester Hairston, Richard Rodgers, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage).


Print up bound parts for 2017,


and


rousingly


head


towards rehearsal,


on


the


206th


of


summer, high down 1 to 89...

Pleasant Hill, 92
Pinole, 91
Berkeley, 82
San Francisco, 85


... editing Fresh Voices I-XVII Chronology, in Thanks, Op. 272:  XII. Psalm 92, Op. 9 (1977, Psalms) - Community Music Center, San Francisco, 2012 late.