May 20 - Dressing for Languorous Liaisons


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director

Languorous Liaisons
Dress Rehearsal, 7:00pm, Friday, May 20, 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) (11')
          I.  Moderato - Allegro - Tempo primo - Piu moderato
          II. Allegretto disturbato
          III. Cadenza
          IV. Vivace


John Beeman      
     Ishi (2015)
          Scene III

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Long


scenic


commute


via 80,


Solano's


Napa River Bridge


on 37,


into Sonoma


and


Marin,


101


glacially


up the


Waldo Grade,


across


the


Golden


Gate



to


Lincoln Drive and a wonderful dress rehearsal -- on the 71st day of summer, high 71, down 9 from yesterday, and a total of 25 from two days ago... a chilly 58 in San Francisco's Richmond...


Home late for videos (somewhat of an expose!), and


That's How It Is On This Bitch Of An Earth, Op. 254
[Title: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
     Waiting for Godot (1953)
Source Material: David Attenborough (b. 1926)
     Color Original-Broadcast Filmography (1963-2016)]

[C. The Tribal Eye (1975)]

III. The Sweat of the Sun

Admiration - Albrecht Durer was . . . astounded (3:48 )
Sound - Flute Ritual (6:00)
Sound - Mexican Music (9:00)
Sound - Marching Band (15:22 )
Sound - George Crumb Glissandi (35:27 , 42:00)
Sound - Jaw's Harp (39:00)