MARK ALBURGER, 2016: July 2016

9th rehearsal of ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL, Op. 232 (to be presented as part of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires -- 8:15pm, Fridays / Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA), including

I. 1879 - ANNA SOFIE BERGEN (Alma's Mother)

VIII. 1886 - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lover)

X. 1888 - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Photo II - Five Songs: II)

XIII. 1891 - GEZA ZICHY (Mahler's Rival)

XIX. 1897 - GUSTAV KLIMT (Alma's Second Kiss)

XXII. 1900 - ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Alma's Second Teacher / First Lover)

XXVII. 1905 - FELIX MUHR / GUSTAV MAHLER (In the Theatre)

XXXIV. 1912 - PAUL KAMMERER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lovers)

XL. 1918 - HULDA RESERL / HERMINE MOOS / MARTIN WERFEL
(Kokoschka's Doll / Alma's Son)

XLI. 1919 - THE PUPPET (Alma's Image)

LI. 1929 - FRANZ WERFEL / MANON GROPIUS (Alma's Third Husband)

Second complete run of the opera in a rehearsal -- first half now given approximately 1 hour and the second 2, for extra attention

(on the 141st day of summer,

high down 7 to 95 --

first below 100 in 8 days...

July 22's 96, and "lowest" since 21's 93!...

84 days 80+; 51, 90-or-better... Pleasant Hill, 82) --

celebrating thereafter again at the local Tahoe Joe's...

THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 43
8pm, Saturday, July 30, 2016
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA

Program

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
     Dream Children, Op. 43 (1902)
           I. Andante

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
     All-Night Vigil, Op. 43 (1900)
        I. Quarter = 60

Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
     Franciscan Landscape, Op. 43 (1919)
        I. Au Jardin de Sainte Clare

        The Opus Project Orchestra

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
     Wind Quintet, Op. 45 (1922)
        I. Allegro ben moderato

        The Opus Project Wind Quintet

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
     Symphony No. 2, Op. 43 (1902)
        IV. Finale

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
     Nocturne Symphonique (Elegie No. 2), Op. 43 (1913)
        Sostenutissimo

        The Opus Project Orchestras

Ede Poldini (1869-1957)
     Petit Decameron, Op. 43 (1909)
        I. Arabian Story - Lento

        Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
     Bacchus and Ariane, Op. 43 (1930)
        Act I - [Introduction] Allegro con brio

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Vítezslav Novák (1870-1949)
     Pan, Op. 43 (1910)

        Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
     Humoresques, Op. 43 (1911)
        I. Marche militaire (Tres rhythme)

        The Opus Project Orchestra

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
     Silhouettes d'enfants, Op. 43 (1918)
        I. Valse

        Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Paul Juon (1872-1940)
     Silhouettes, Series II, Op. 43, No. 2 (Book IV) (1909)
        IIIa. Intermezzo I - Allegretto (alla Menuetto)

        Alan Kingsley, Flute / Stardust, Oboe / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
     Symphony No. 3 ("The Divine Poem"), Op. 43 (1904)
        Introduction

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
     Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (194)
        Introduction. Allegro vivace — Variation I (Precedente)

        Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra

Max Reger (1873-1916)
     Eight Songs, Op. 43 (1900)
        V. Lullaby (Richard Dehmel)

        Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra

Charles Ives (1874-1954)
     Central Park in the Dark (1906)
        Molto adagio

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
     Theme and Variations for Orchestra, Op. 43 (1943)
        Theme (Poco allegro)

        The Opus Project Orchestra

Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
     A Gift of Silence, Op. 43 (1905)

        Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Bela Bartok (1881-1943)
     Hungarian Sketches for Orchestra (1931)
        I. Evening in Transylvania (Evening in the Village)
        II. Bear Dance

        The Opus Project Orchestra

Marion Bauer (1882-1955)
     Prelude and Fugue, Op. 43 (1948)
        Prelude

        Alan Kingsley, Flute / The Opus Project Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
     Pulcinella (1920)
        VII. Duetto (Vivo)

Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
     The Fisherman and his Wife, Op. 43 (1930)
        I. Introduction

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
     Divertissement, Op. 43 (1929)
         I. Moderato, molto ritmato

Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
     Chamber Symphony No. 1 ("Spring"), Op. 43 (1917)
        II. Chantant

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
     Speilmusik, Op. 43 (1927)
        I. Moderately moving half-notes

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
     El Salon Mexico (1936)
        Allegro vivace

        The Opus Project Orchestra

Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
     Two Russian Folk Songs, Op. 43 (1945)
        I. Andante con moto

        Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
     Symphony No. 4, Op. 43 (1936)
        I. Allegretto poco moderato

        The Opus Project Orchestra

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
     12 Armenian Folk Songs, Op. 43 (1943)
        I. Quarter = 104

        Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
     The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (1948, after the original, 1728, by John Pepusch, 1685-)
        Act I - "Through All the Employments of Life"

Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
     Serenade No. 5, Op. 43 (1950)
        I. Prelude

        Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra

George Crumb (b. 1929)
     Gnomic Variations (1981)
        Thema-lentemente, deciso

        Elizabeth Morrison, Cello / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Philip Glass (b. 1937)
     Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
        V. Vessels - Verse 1

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
     Deploration Passacaglias, Op. 43 (1992)
        I. Ockeghem

Stardust (b. 1962)
     Annie's Song No. 1: Like a Virgin (2016)

        Jill Wagoner and Annie Hepbern Smith, Sopranos / The Opus Project Orchestra

Feona Lee Jones (b. 1986)
     Etude No. 2 (2016)

         Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Golden Gate (2016)

Hussein Al-Naswari (b.1990)
     The Ultimate Disney Steinway Grand Concert (2016)

        Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano

THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield Associate Music Director and Conductor

Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley

Oboe / English Horn
Stardust

Clarinet
Michael Kimbell

Bassoon
Michael Garvey

Trombone
Scott Sterling

Soprano
Annie Hepbern Smith
Jill Wagoner

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones

Percussion
Ken Crawford
Cynthia Seagren

Violin
Kat Walsh

Viola
Kristy Venstrom

Cello
Elizabeth Morrison

Bass
Michael Stubblefield

The Opus Project presents

OPUS 44: International Fantasies
8pm, SUNDAY, August 28, 2016, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

A Multi-Media Event,
with Feona Lee Jones, and the Opus Project String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Orchestra

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)            Romance, Op. 44, No. 1 (1859)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)            Coronation Ode, Op. 44 (1902)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)             Piano Serenade, Op. 44 (1920)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)            Chorus, Op. 44 (1908)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)            Orchestral Song, Op. 44 (1900)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)            String Quartet No. 4, Op. 44 (1906)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)            Piece from "Kuolema", Op. 44 (1906)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)            Indian Fantasy, Op. 44 (1914)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)            Browning Song, Op. 44 (1900)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)             Little Symphony in G Major, Op. 44 (1939)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)             Idyll, Op. 44 (1930)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)            Open-Air Orchestral Music, Op. 44 (1904)
Paul Juon (1872-1940)            Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 44 (1909)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)            Poeme, Op. 44 (1905)
Alexander Gedike (1873-1957)             Opera at the Crossing, Op. 44 (1933)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)        Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 (1936)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)            Part-Song, Op. 44 (1926)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)            Genesis Suite: Prelude, Op. 44 (1945)
Richard Wetz (1875-1935)            Kyrie, Op. 44 (1916)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)            Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 (1928)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)            Low Song, Op. 44
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)            Felix the Cat, Op. 44 (1926)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)        Hail, Spain, Op. 44 (1936)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)            A Fadograph of Yestern Scene, Op. 44 (1971)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)            Celestial Fantasy, Op. 44 (1935)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)            Spring Symphony, Op. 44 (1949)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)            Helena Suite, Op. 44 (1992)

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Another fantastic concert,

proceeded by the 9th rehearsal of Jostein Stahlheim / John Bilotta's Rosetta's Stone

(to be given as part of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices XVI: Memories and Desires -- 8:15pm, Fridays / Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, also featuring Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232)