May 15 - Liaison Lines of Energy


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director


Languorous Liaisons
Rehearsal 2
7:00pm, Sunday, May 15, 2016
Park Presidio United Methodist Church,
4301 Geary Boulevard (at 7th Avenue), SF, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey, conducting

Program

Harry Bernstein      
     Quartetto Amabile (2013) (12')
          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)
     

John Beeman   

 
     Ishi (2015)
                    Scene III

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A spirited second rehearsal,


heading


down


there


incredibly,


leisurely via 80,


over the bridge,


with


score-study


at Five Happiness.


66th day of summer at home, high 81 (another spring day in San Francisco's Richmond District -- 65, with only 19 days this year at 70+), preparing for publication the new edition of Trumpet Concerto ("Macho Concertino"), Op. 40: III....