THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 38
8pm, Saturday, February 27, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 38 (1869)
I. Allegro non troppo (E Minor)
Aaron Urton, Cello / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 (1900)
Part I - Introduction
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Symphonischer Festmarsch, Op. 38 (1907)
Maestoso
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 38 (1906)
I. Allegro passionato
Audio
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Five Songs, Op. 38 (1904)
III. In the Night, Op. 38 (1904)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Marche Militaire, Op. 38 (1915)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
The Dark Kingdom, Op. 38 (1930)
Part I - We Dead
Video
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Jazz in the Night, Op. 38 (1928, Rene Dommange, 1888-1977)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960)
Elégie (At Emil Sjögren's Funeral), Op. 38 (1918)
Video
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Children of Lauschen, Op. 38 (1907)
Mother Tells Fairytales
I. From The Beautiful Ringlet
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Six Romances, Op. 38 (1916)
I. In My Garden at Night (Alexander Block, 1880-1921) Lento
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Ode to Death, Op 38 (1919, Walt Whitman, 1819-1892)
Adagio
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 (1939)
I. Adagio
The Opus Project Orchestra
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1836)
Notturno (1904)
Hussein Al-Naswari
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
My Captain, Op. 38 (1904, Walt Whitman)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Piano-Rag Music (1919)
Quarter = 144
The Opus Project Orchestra
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 38 (1926)
I. Molto pesante
Video
Fartein Valen (1887-1952)
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 38 (1941)
I. Allegro maestoso
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 38 (1923)
I. Allegro tranquillo
Alois Haba (1893-1973)
Piano Toccata quasi una Fantasia, Op. 38 (1931)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38 (1925)
II. Very fast half-notes
The Opus Project Orchestra
Erich Korngold (1897-1957)
Five Songs, Op. 38 (1947)
I. Congratulations
Video
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Statements for Orchestra (1934)
I. Militant
The Opus Project Orchestra
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Four Walt Whitman Songs (1947)
I. My Captain
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Three Greek Songs, Op. 38 (1953)
I. Sappho
Video
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
24 Piano Preludes, Op. 38 (1944)
I. Andantino
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Six Piano Preludes, Op. 38 (1945)
II. Tranquil
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Love and Hate, Op. 38 (1934)
Video
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Piano Concerto, Op. 38 (1962)
I. Allegro appassionato
Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Occasional Overture, Op. 38 (1946)
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Piano Sonatina No. 1, Op. 38 (1950)
I. Flowing
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Beatrix Cenci, Op. 38
(1971, after The Cenci, 1819, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822)
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)
Three Other Pieces for Clarinet and Cimbalom, Op. 38a (1996)
No. 1. Kanonfele
Video
George Crumb (1929)
Star-Child (1977)
I. Introduction: Desolato
The Opus Project Orchestra
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
A Serenade for Summer, for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 38 (1976)
Video
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Proverb (1995, "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life,"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951)
Mark Alburger, Tenor
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Satyagraha (1980, Constance DeJong, b. 1950)
Act 3: III. Evening Song
The Opus Project Orchestra
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Spectral Preludes, Op. 38 (1989)
IV. Red-Orange (A)
VIII. Blue-Purple (Db)
IX. Blue (Ab)
Video
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Six Short Pieces on 12-Tone Circles (2016)
II. Allemande
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield Associate Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Clarinet
Peter Brown
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Horn
Bob Satterford
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass
John Veitch
Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Hussein Al-Naswari
Cynthia Seagren
Violin I
Keith Leung
Violin II
Donna Ashley
Viola
Donna's Friend
Cello
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 39: Strange But True!
8pm, Saturday, March 26, 2016,
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) In a Strange Land, Op. 39, No. 1 (1840)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Pomp and Circumstance March in D Major, Op. 39, No. 1 (1901)
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) Allegro Giusto, Op. 39 (1906)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Saga-Dream, Op. 39 (1908)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Symphony No. 1, Op. 39 (1899)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Capricho Espanol, Op. 39 (1915)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) The Heart, Op. 39 (1931)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Petit Suite for Small Orchestra, Op. 39 (1929)
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 39 (1922)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Piano Trio No. 2 ("Caprice"), Op. 39 (1908)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Prelude, Op. 39, No. 2 (1903)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Etude-Tableau, Op. 39, No. 2 (1917)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, Op. 39 (1922)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Kol Nidre, Op. 39 (1938)
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Prelude for Violin and Cello, Op. 39, No. 1 (1909)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970) Dagobah, Op. 39 No. 1 (1904)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Three Pieces for Clarinet (1919)
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) Penthesilea, Op. 39 (1925)
Fartein Valen (1887-1952) Song, Op. 39 (1941)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39 (1924)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Cardillac, Op. 39 (1926)
Erich Korngold (1897-1957) Symphonische Serenade for String Orchestra (1948)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Children's Pieces, Op. 39 (1944)
Paul Creston (1906-1985) Poem for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 39 (1945)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) The Limpid Stream, Op. 39 (1935)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991) True Story, Op. 39, No. 1
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Andromach's Farewell, Op. 39 (1962)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Artinis, Op. 39 (1945)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Albert Herring, Op. 39 (1947)
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 39 (1950)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 39 (1972)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Oboe Concerto, Op. 39 (1952)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Apparition (1979)
Peter Schat (1935-2003) Etudes for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 39 (1992)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Glassworks (1982)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Big Beat, Op. 39 (1990)
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Finish up program, videos, and event invites --
before
heading out with Harriet,
via errands,
to Cybercopy, where we serendipitously meet up with John Bilotta,
who has more copies of the
Fresh Voices XVI brochure ready.
From here, we make our way to the excellent show, and -- after which -- head home to do the piano-vocal score (page 12-14) and
visual libretto for Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232: VII. 1885 - Gustav Mahler (Alma's First Husband), late on the 43rd day of spring, high 68...
