May 12 - Liaisons


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director

Languorous Liaisons - Rehearsal 1
7:00pm, Thursday, May 12, 2016
Park Presidio United Methodist Church, 4301 Geary Boulevard (at 7th Avenue), SF, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting


Harry Bernstein   
     Quartetto Amabile (2013)
          I. Allegro marziale
          II. Moderato (Swing!)
          III. Relaxed and sustained (Meditative)
          IV. Inspired by Choro (Animato)

Lisa Scola Prosek   
     Mantilla (A Game Played with Cow Chips) (2016)



Michael Cooke   
     Fantasy in D... (ish) (2016)

Mark Alburger   
     Eight Waltzes, Op. 252 (2016) from Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel
          I. 1880 - Julius Viktor Berger (Alma's Mother's Extramarital Affair)
          II. 1884 - Emil Jakob Schindler (Alma's Twice-Cuckolded Father)
          III. 1894 - Schule (Alma's Curious Education)
          IV. 1895 -  Max Burckhard / Otto Mahler
               (Alma's First Premarital Affair / Mahler's Brother's Suicide)
          V. 1897 - Gustav Klimt (Alma's Second Premarital Affair)
          VI. 1910 - Walter Gropius / Sigmund Freud
               (Alma's First Extramarital Affair / Mahler's Psychoanalysis)
          VII. 1918 - Hulda Reserl / Hermine Moos / Martin Carl Johannes Werfel
               (Kokoschka's Love Doll / Alma's Illegitimate Son)
          VIII. 1937 - Franz Werfel / Carl Zuckmayer / Franz von Papen / Oskar Kokoschka
               (Alma's Farewell Party / Eve of the Nazi Anschluss)



Davide Verotta   
     Divertimento per Piano, Violin e Orchestra (2016)

           Davide Verotta, Piano / Monika Gruber, Violin



John Beeman   
     Ishi (2015)
          Scene III


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An


excellent


initial


plunge


into


the


repertory,


on the 63rd day of summer (high up a tick to 88,


besting yesterday, etc., as third-highest temperature of the year -- way lower in San Francisco, at a miserable 59),


beginnng with the Diablo Valley College commute to bestow,


upon the Theoreticians, Exam - Part I, the musical examples derived from Elton John, Mark Alburger, and Kurt Cobain.


To Cybercopy thereafter to have printed out score and parts to Eight Waltzes,


homeward


(via


errands) to rest a bit,


back


to


print


posters for  


Languorous Liasons (8pm, Saturday, May 21, St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell, San Francisco, CA),


and


off


toward


San


Francisco's


foggy


margin


for


score-study and the dynamic rehearsal...