MARK ALBURGER, 2016: August 2016

August 31 - Directly Ahead

To UC Berkeley Music Library yet again, now for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 45

(8pm, Saturday, September 24, Diablo Valley College Music Department, Pleasant Hill, CA),

beelining there and

somewhat

lingeringly

returning,

the

172nd

day

summer,

high back down 5 to 90

(116 days 80+, 77 90-or-more) --

70 Berkeley

73 Pinole --

complete,

after errands, The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255): LXXXVI. 1964 - Elias Canetti / Al[brecht] Joseph / Friedrich Torberg (Alma's Death), 2 pages total, and 648 for the complee Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel...

August 30 - As Time Rushes By

Harmonization of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), Op. 125 (1824) "Ode to Joy" Theme (transposed to C Major) in Medieval-Parallel-Organum-at-the-5th style for the Theoreticians, as well as other Week 3 material,

the

171st

day

summer,

high

(115 / 76 days at 80 / 90-or-beyond --

89 Pleasant Hill, 74 Pinole ), returning eventually to compose beginning of

The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXXXVI. 1964 - Elias Canetti / Al[brecht] Joseph / Friedrich Torberg (Alma's Death)...

August 29 - Flaming

Work on the playlist for The Opus Project presents Opus 45 and finish orchestration re The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXXXV. 1963 - Igor Stravinsky / Walter Gropius / Oskar Kokoschka (Photo IX) -- 5 pages total --

on the 170th day of summer,

high up 3 to 93

(114 / 75 days 80 / 90+)...

August 28 - The Opus Project presents Opus 44

THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 44
8pm, Sunday, August 28, 2016
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

Program

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
     Six Evenings in St. Petersburg, Op.44 (1859)
        I. Romance

        Carol Reynolds, Piano

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
     Coronation Ode, Op. 44 (1902)
        Finale

Julius Rontgen (1859-1932)
     Nine Old Netherlandish Songs (1904)
        Part I - Three Marian Songs - III. Sweetest Jesus

        The Opus Project Ensemble

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
     String Quartet No. 4, Op. 44 (1906)
        I. Andante non tanto e comodo

        The Opus 44 Quartet

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
     Two Pieces from" Kuolema", Op. 44 (1906)
        I. Waltz Triste

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
     Indian Fantasy, Op. 44 (1914)
        Andante con moto, quasi di Marcia

          The Opus Project Ensemble

Amy Beach (1867-1944)
     Three [Robert] Browning Songs [1812-1889], Op. 44 (1900)
        II. Ah, Love, but a Day!

        Mark Alburger, Tenor / Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
     Little Symphony in G Major, Op. 44 (1939)
        I. Serene

        Video

Ede Poldini (1869-1957)
     Seven Masks, Op.44 (1910)
        VII. Villager

Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
     Two Idylls, Op. 44 (1930)
        I. The Honey Thief

        Mark Alburger, Tenor / Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
     Open-Air Musics, Op. 44 (1904)
        I. Mountain Procession

         The Opus Project Ensemble

Paul Juon (1872-1940)
     Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 44 (1909)
        I. Allegro moderato

        The Opus 44 Quintet

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
     Two Poems, Op. 44 (1905)
        I. Lento

        Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
     Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 (1936)
        I. Lento - Allegro moderato

Max Reger (1873-1916)
     Ten Little Pieces, Op. 44 (1900)
        IX. Fugato

        The Opus Project Ensemble

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
     Seven Part-Songs, Op. 44 (1926, Robert Bridges, 1844-1930)
        I. Say, Who Is This?

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
     Genesis Suite
        I. Prelude, Op. 44 (1945)

        Video

Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939)
     Three Choral Songs, Op. 44 (1918, Thoger Larsen (1875-1928)
        II. Image

Pavel Chesnokov (1877- 1944)
     All-Night Vigil, Op. 44 (1915)
                        Quarter = 80

                        The Opus Project Ensemble

Alexander Gedike (1877-1957)
     At the Crossing, Op. 44 (1933, Vasily Zhukovsky, 1783-1852)
        Natashа's Romance (Moderato)

         Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
     Suite from "Pulcinella" (1920)
        IX. Finale

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
     Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 (1928)
        IV. [Andante mosso] Andante maestoso

        The Opus Project Ensemble

Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
     Low Songs, Op. 44 (1917, Stephane Mallarme [1842-1898], 1899)
        IX. The Clothes Merchant

        Mark Alburger, Tenor / Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
     Sing und Spielmusik, Op. 44 (1926)
        I. Nine Canons : I

        Kat Walsh, Violin / Soha Sadeghi, Viola

Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
     Song of Democracy, Op. 44 (1956)
        Slow and Tender

        The Opus Project Ensemble

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
     Hail, Spain (A Salute to Spain), Op. 44 (1936)
        I. Fanfare I
        II. March of the Officers - Allegro non troppo

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
     A Fadograph of Yestern Scene, Op. 44
        (1971, James Joyce, 1882-1941, Finnegans Wake, 1939)
        Moderato, cantando liberamente

        Video

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
     Celestial Fantasy, Op. 44 (1935)

        Audio

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
     Spring Symphony, Op. 44 (1949)
        Lento, senza rigore

George Crumb (b. 1929)
     Pastoral Drone (1982)
        Boldly resounding, with precise and sharply-etched rhythm;
        like an ancient "open-air" music

Philip Glass (b. 1937)
     The Photographer (1983)
        I. A Gentleman's Honor

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
     Helena Suite, Op. 44 (1992)
        I. Beautiful Women

        Mark Alburger, Tenor / The Opus Project Ensemble

Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
     Variations on a Theme of Erik Satie (2016)
        Theme (Gnoissiene No. 1)
               I. Rachmaninoff
               II. Chopin
               III. Liszt

               Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano

THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE

Mark Alburger                        Music Director and Conductor

Bassoon
Tim Machajewski*

Tuba
Aaron Wallace

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones*
Carol Reynolds

Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Ken Crawford

Violin
Kat Walsh*

Viola
Soha Sadeghi*

Cello
Aaron Urton*

* The Opus 44 Quartet and Piano Quintet

The Opus Project presents

OPUS 45: There and Back Again- 8pm, Saturday, September 24, 2016, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, CA

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)             Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 (1880)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)           Serenade in F Major, Op. 45 (1914)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)            Partsong from the Greek Anthology, Op. 45 (1902)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)             Piano Trio, Op. 45 (1922)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)            Song, Op. 45 (1908)
Robert Kahn (1865-1952)            Clarinet Trio, Op.45 (1906)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)            The Demon, Op. 45 (1920)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)            Piece for Orchestra, Op. 45 (1910)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)            The Bridal Choice, Op. 45 (1912)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)            Barcarola, Op. 45 (1900)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)             Elegie und Round Dance, Op. 45 (1940)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)            String Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (1932)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)            Orchestral Song, Op. 45 (1912)
Paul Juon (1872-1940)            Triple Concerto, Op. 45 (1912)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)            Piano Piece, Op. 45 (1905)
Alexander Gedike (1873-1957)             For the Glory of the Soviet Pilots, Op. 45 (1934)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)            Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (1940)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)            The Morning of the Year, Op. 45 (1927)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)            String Trio, Op. 45 (1946)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)            Things in Themselves, Op. 45 (1928)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)            Two Rimbaud Poems, Op.45 (1917)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)            Hin und Zurück, Op. 45 (1927)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)            Jonny Spielt Auf, Op. 45 (1927)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)        The Return of Maxim, Op. 45 (1937)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)            Three Songs, Op. 45 (1972)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)            Armenian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 45 (1944)
John Cage (1912-1992)             Tossed As It Is Untroubled (1943)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)            The Little Sweep, Op. 45 (1949)
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010)            Serenade Quartet, Op. 45 (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)            Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992)

***

Another amazing concert, on the 169th day of summer, high up 4 back to 90 (113 days 80+ / 74 90-or-more -- Pinole, 68; Pleasant Hill, 84), returning to do the 4th page of orchestration re The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op. 255: LXXXV. 1963 - Igor Stravinsky / Walter Gropius / Oskar Kokoschka (Photo IX)...

August 27 - An Opera in 3 Husbands and Multiple Lovers (All Famous)

Goat Hall Productions
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Harriet March Page, Artistic Director
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Fresh Voices XVI
Memories and Desires

8:15pm, Fridays-Saturdays, August 12-13, 26-27, 2016
Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA

JOSTEIN STAHLHEIM / JOHN G. BILOTTA

ROSETTA'S STONE (2015, Oded Ben-Horin / John F. McGrew)
    A Neuroscience Opera in Two Acts (Duration - 40 minutes)

    ACT I:     Scene 1 - A Well-Functioning Cafe
        Scene 2 - The Music Lesson

    ACT II:    Scene 1 - A Poorly-Functioning Cafe
        Scene 2 - Deterioration - A Memory - Rosetta's Stone

    CHARACTERS

        AL HAMBRA, a music teacher            Wayne Wong

        ROSETTA, his student                          Cass Panuska

        CHORUS, The Brain Regions

            CORTEX                                           Jill Wagoner

            THALAMUS              Sarita Cannon

            HIPPOCAMPUS                              Alexis Lane Jensen

            AMYGDALA                                  Kassidy Grace Mayernik

            CEREBELLUM                               Jamie Samantha Lee

            BRAIN STEM                                  Harriet March Page

    ENSEMBLE

        CLARINET               Rachel Condry
        CELLO                                                Robin Reynolds
        PIANO                                                Feona Lee Jones
        BILL, THE CONDUCTOR                Mark Alburger

ROSETTA'S STONE (2015), a collaborative work about a professor’s descent into Alzheimer's disease and its effect on his student, was created by a team of artists in the United States and Norway: composers John G. Bilotta and Jostein Stalheim and librettists Oded Ben-Horin and John F. McGrew. In Rosetta's Stone, the professor’s mind is deconstructed into a cerebral café of brainy baristas -- Amygdala, Brain Stem, Cerebellum, Cortex, Hippocampus, and Thalamus -- in scenes that alternate with his pupil's poignant musical responses. "Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth." (R. W. Emerson)

20-minute intermission

MARK ALBURGER (b. 1957)

ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL, Op. 232
    An Opera in Three Husbands and Multiple Lovers (All Famous)
        (2016, after Wikipedia Alma Mahler, and links) (Duration - 70 minutes)

    PROLOGUE - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER

        I. 1879 - ANNA SOFIE BERGEN (Alma's Mother)
        II. 1880 - JULIUS VIKTOR BERGER (Alma's Mother's 1st Lover)
        III. 1881 - MARGARETHE (GRETE) JULIE SCHINDLER (Alma's 1st Half Sister)

IV. 1882 - OMA BERGEN (Photograph I / Alma's Grandmother)

V. 1883 - MANON AUGUSTE PAULINE SCHARMWEBER GROPIUS
(Alma's Second Husband)

VI. 1884 - EMIL JAKOB SCHINDLER (Alma's Father)

VII. 1885 - GUSTAV MAHLER (Alma's First Husband)

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

IX. 1887 - PRINCE RUDOLF (Alma's Father's Employer)

X. 1888 - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Photograph II / Alma's Portrait)

XI. 1889 - CARL MOLL (Alma's Mother's 2nd Lover)

XII. 1890 - FRANZ VIKTOR WERFEL (Alma's 3rd Husband)

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

XIV. 1892 - SYLT (Alma's First Compositional Efforts / Father's Death)

XV. 1893 - ALMA / SOPHIE / GRETE (Photograph III / Alma's Family Portrait)

XVI. 1894 - SCHULE (Alma's Education)

XVII. 1895 - MAX BURCKHARD / OTTO MAHLER
(Alma's 1st Lover / Suicide of Otto Mahler)

        XVIII. 1895 - JOSEF LABOR (Alma's 1st Teacher)
        XIX. 1897 - GUSTAV KLIMT (Alma's 2nd Lover)
        XX. 1898 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (Alma's Artistic Associations)

XXI. 1899 - MARIA MOLL (Photograph IV / Alma's 2nd Half Sister)

XXII. 1900 - ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Alma's 2nd Teacher / 3rd Lover)

XXIII. 1901 - GUSTAV MAHLER (Alma's 1st Marriage)

    ACT I - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER

        XXIV. 1902 - RICHARD STRAUSS / MARIA ANNA "PUTZI"
               (Mahler's Friend / Alma's 1st Daughter)

XXV. 1903 - HAUPTMAN / PFITZNER / P. STRAUSS / GOLDMARK / CHARPENTIER
(Viennese Life)

XXVI. 1904 - ANNA JUSTINE "GUCKI" / GABRILOWITSCH
(In the Country / Alma's 2nd Daughter)

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

XXVIII. 1906 - ALMA / MARIA / ANNA / GUSTAV (In the Home)

XXIX. 1907 - NEW YORK / MARIA ANNA /STRAVINSKY / SIBELIUS / CARUSO
(In the City)

XXX. 1908 - TOBLACH (Mahler's Premonitions of Death)

XXXI. 1909 - RODIN / TOSCANINI (Mahler's Fame)

XXXII. 1910 - WALTER GROPIUS / SIGMUND FREUD (Alma's 1st Affair)

XXXIII. 1911 - MAHLER / FRAENKEL / SCHREKER
(Mahler's Death / Bruckner's 3rd Symphony)

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

XXXV. 1913 - ANNA MAHLER / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Kokoschka's Paintings / Bride of the Wind)

XXXVI. 1914 - OSKAR KOKOSCHKA / HANS PFITZNER (World War I)

XXXVII. 1915 - SIEGFRIED OCHS / WALTER GROPIUS / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA
(Alma's 2nd Marriage)

ACT II - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS

XXXVIII. 1916 - MANON GROPIUS (Alma's 3rd Daughter)

XXXIX. 1917 - FRANZ WERFEL (Alma's 2nd Affair)

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

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

XLII. 1920 - GROPIUS / PROSTITUTE / FESTIVAL (Alma's Divorce)

XLIII. 1921 - SCHOENBERG / RAVEL / BERG / MILHAUD / POULENC (Alma's Soirees)

XLIV. 1922 - RUPERT KOLLER / ERNST KRENEK (Alma's Sons-in-Law)

XLV. 1923 - ERNST KRENEK / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Lover's Opera)

XLVI. 1924 - SCHOENBERG / WEBERN / BERG / KRENEK / SHOSTAKOVICH
(Mahler's 10th Symphony)

XLVII. 1925 - ALBAN BERG / HANNA WERFEL FUCHS-ROBETTIN (Alma's Letters)

        XLVIII. 1926 - RUPERT JOSEPH / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA / PAUL KAMMERER
               (Alma's Inspiration)
        XLIX. 1927 - FRANZ WERFEL / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Alma's Indecision)
        L. 1928 - ALBAN BERG / OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Kokoschka's Letters)

ACT III - ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL

LI. 1929 - FRANZ WERFEL / MANON GROPIUS (Alma's 3rd Marriage)

LII. 1930 - ANNA MAHLER / PAUL VON ZSOLNAY (Anna's 3rd Marriage)
LIII. 1931 - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW / PAUL VON ZSOLNAY (Anna's 3rd Separation)

LIV. 1932 - THEO JOHANNES HOLLNSTEINER (Alma's 3rd Affair)

LV. 1933 - HEINRICH BRUENING / ADOLF HITLER (Alma's World)

LVI. 1934 - ELIAS CANETTI / MAID (Manon's Polio)

LVII. - 1935 MANON GROPIUS / ALBAN BERG (Manon / Berg's Deaths)
LVIII. 1936 - JOHANNES HOLLNSTEINER / KURT SCHUSCHNIGG (Manon's Eulogy)

LIX. 1937 - WERFEL / ZUCKMAYER / VON PAPEN / KOKOSCHKA
(Alma's Farewell Party)

        LX. 1938 - ANSCHLUSS (Alma's Departure)

    CHARACTERS

        ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER (Austrian Composer / Socialite)            Kassidy Grace Mayernik
            Anna Justine "Gucki" Mahler (Austrian Sculptor / Alma's 2nd Daughter)
            Hans Pfitzner (German Composer / Alma's 4th Lover)
            The Alma Doll (Kokoschka's Design / Moos's Manufacture)
            Darius Milhaud (French Composer / Alma's 4th Soiree Attendee)
            Hanna Fuchs-Robettin (Werfel's Sister / Berg's Mistress)
            Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) II

        ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER                                                Larissa Lorenz
            Julius Viktor Berger (Austrian Artist / Alma's Mother's 1st Lover)
            Manon Gropius (Alma's 3rd Daughter)
            Hulda Reserl (Chambermaid / Kokoschka's Mistress)
            Anton Webern (Composer / Schoenberg's 1st Student / Alma's 4th Editor)
            Rupert Koller (Anna Mahler's 1st Husband)
            Gladwyn Kingsley Noble (American Herptologist / Kammerer's Critic)
            Franz von Papen (German Officlal / Alma's 2nd Party Attendee)
            Egon Friedell (Austrian Philosopher / Cabaret Performer)

        ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS                                Christa Durand
            Carl Moll (Austrian Artist / Alma's Mother's 2nd Lover / Alma's Stepfather)
            Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber Gropius (Gropius's Mother)
            Marie Theienemann Hauptmann (Hauptman's Wife)
            Madame M (Mahler's Lover)
            Igor Stravinsky (Russian Composer / Mahler's Critic)
            Franz Schreker (German Composer / Alma's 2nd Suitor)
            Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer I
            Maid (To Manon, in Alma's Employ)
            Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) III
            Carl Zuckmayer (German Writer / Alma's 1st Party Attendee)

        ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL                  Jill Wagoner
            Anna Sophie Bergen Schindler (German Soprano / Alma's Mother)
            Otto Mahler (Austrian Composer / Mahler's Younger Brother)
            Pauline Strauss (German Soprano / Richard Strauss's Wife)
            Doctor (Delivering Martin Carl Johannes Werfel)
            Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee I
            Gropius's Prostitute Police Officer I
            Maurice Ravel (French Composer / Alma's 2nd Soiree Attendee)
            Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian Composer / Alma's 5th Editor)

        GUSTAV MAHLER (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Husband)                  Mark Alburger
            Hermine Moos (German Avant-Garde Puppet Maker / Artist)
            Alban Berg (Composer / Schoenberg's 2nd Student / Alma's 3rd Soiree Attendee / Editor)
            Adolf Hitler (German Nazi-Party Leader)
            Nazi II (Storm-Trooper / Border Guard / Negotiator)

        WALTER GROPIUS (German Architect / Alma's 2nd Husband)                   Jamie Samantha Lee
            Crown Prince Rudolf (Alma's Father's Employer)
            Oma Bergen (Alma's Grandmother)
            Geza Zichy (Hungarian One-Armed Pianist-Composer/ Mahler's Rival)
            Max Burckhard (Austrian Theatre Director / Alma's 1st Lover)
            Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Soiree Attendee / 2nd Editor)
            Bruno Walter (German Conductor / Mahler's 1st Colleague)
            Richard Strauss (German Composer / Mahler's 2nd Colleague)
            Felix Muhr (Artist / Alma's 2nd Admirer)
            Jean Sibelius (Finnish Composer / Mahler's 4th Colleague)
            Auguste Rodin (French Sculptor)
            Arturo Toscanini (Italian Conductor / Mahler's 2nd Associate)
            Paul Kammerer (Austrian Biologist / Alma's 7th Lover)
            Kokoschka Doll-Party Attendee II
            Paul Zsolnay (Austro-Hungarian Publisher / Anna's 3rd Husband)
            Johannes Hollnsteiner (Austrian Theologian / Alma's 9th Lover)
            Heinrich Bruening (Chancellor of Weimar Germany)
            Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) IV / Nazi I

        OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Austrian Artist / Alma's 8th Lover)                       Jacqueline Goldgorin
            Gustav Klimt (Austrian Artist / Alma's 2nd Lover)
            Margarethe Julie Schindler (Alma's 1st Half-Sister)
            Maria Moll Eberstaller (Alma's 2nd Half-Sister)
            Maria Anna "Putzi" Mahler (Alma's 1st Daughter)
            Sigmund Freud (Austrian Neurologist / Mahler's Psychoanalyst)
            Gropius's Prostitute
            Francis Poulenc (French Composer / Alma's 3rd Soiree Attendee)
            Adolf von Zsolnay (Austrian Honorary Consul General / Paul Zsolnay's Father)
            Elias Canetti (Bulgarian-German Writer / Alma's 2nd Critic)
            Brunner Arbeitzeitung (Anti-Alma Newspaper Reporter) I

        FRANZ WERFEL (Austrian Writer / Alma's 3rd Husband)                          Harriet March Page
            Emil Jakob Schindler (Austrian Artist / Alma's Father)
            Alexander von Zemlinsky (Composer / Alma's 2nd Teacher / 3rd Lover)
            Gerhart Hauptmann (German Writer / Alma's 1st Admirer)
            Carl Goldmark (Austro-Hungarian Composer / Mahler's 3rd Colleague)
            Gustave Charpentier (French Composer / Alma's 5th Lover)
            Enrico Caruso (Italian Tenor / Mahler's 1st Associate)
            Joseph Fraenkel (Austro-American Neurologist / Alma's 1st Suitor)
            Siegfried Ochs (German Composer / Alma's 3rd Suitor)
            Kokoschka Doll-Party Police Officer II
            Gropius's Prostitute Police Officer II
            Ernst Krenek (Composer / Anna's 2nd Husband / Alma's 1st Critic / 1st Editor)
            Albrecht Joseph (German-American Theatre / Film Director)
            Anna Sophie Bergen Schindler Moll

        ALMA DOPPELGANGER PIANIST                                                             Feona Lee Jones
            Josef Labor (Austrian Composer / Alma's 1st Teacher)
            Ossip Gabrilowitsch (Russian-American Pianist / Alma's 6th Lover)

    ORCHESTRA

        FLUTE / PICCOLO                                                                                          Alan Kingsley
        Bb / A CLARINET                                                                                           Peter Brown
        BASSOON                                                                                                        Michael Garvey
        C / Bb TRUMPET                                                                                             Michael Cox
        HORN                                                                                                                Bob Satterford
        PIANO                                                                                                               Feona Lee Jones
        VIOLIN                                                                                                              Jonathan Ho
        CELLO                                                                                                               Robin Reynolds
        CONDUCTOR                                                                                                   Mark Alburger

The opera tropes multiple musics from Bedrich Smetana and Gustav Mahler to Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Bernstein, and George Crumb -- including orchestrations of Alma Mahler's Five Songs (1910)

***

Wow! What a run! And the best performance yet,

the

168th

day

summer,

high again 86

(112 days 80+ --

Walnut Creek, 74), ending with a third page of orchestration for The Great Widow (Alma, Part II), Op.255: LXXXV. 1963 - Igor Stravinsky / Walter Gropius / Oskar Kokoschka (Photo IX)...