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
***
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....
