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
***
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)
