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)
***
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)
on this the 140th day of summer, high down 5 to 102...
83 days 80+
50 days 90+
17 days 100+
Pleasant Hill 96
Pinole
65
Berkeley
61
San Francisco
63
