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
***
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
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...
