SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
In Uncertain Times
Rehearsal, 7pm, Thursday, October 6, 2016
Park Presidio United Methodist Church, 4301 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and Martha Stoddard, conducting
Program
Roberto Becheri
I Costruttori (The Builders): a Short Cantata for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
(2016, Roberto Becheri)
Martha Stoddard
The Song of the Loon (2015)
Lisa Scola Prosek
Ubi Sunt (Where Have They Gone) from "Lucaria" (2016)
Madrigal
Aria
Davide Verotta
To the Point (2016) (6')
Stardust
True of Voice Overture (2016)
Mark Alburger
Variations on The Romanesca, Op. 251 (2016)
I. Luis de Narvaez (1490-1547) - Gardeme las Vacas (1538)
II. Braye Lute Book (b. c. 1530) - (Variations Romanesca, 1560)
III. Dublin Virginal Book (b. c. 1540) - Variations Romanesca (1570)
IV. Frescobaldi (1583-1643) - Aria della Romanesca (1616)
V. England (b. c. 1620) - Greensleeves to a Ground (1650)
VI. Johannes Pachelbel (1653-1708) - Canon in D (1694)
VII. Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Dido and Aeneas (1689)
VIII. J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Organ Passacaglia in C Minor (1713)
IX. F.J. Haydn (1732-1809) - Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise") (1791)
X. W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) - "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je Maman" (1781)
XI. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Symphony No. 7 (1812)
XII. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - Piano Quintet ("Trout") (1819)
***
A fantastic first reading,
preceded
by
the
flaming
morning commute,
Jerrod's
Composition I and
Quiz 8 for the
Theoreticians (Romantic Harmony),
southwest
for
key pickup, paper-grading, and rehearsing.
Home late, on the 207th day of summer, high 84 (143 days 80+) --
Pleasant Hill, 81
Pinole, 77
Berkeley, 69
San Francisco, 74
-- finishing The Decameron: Sixth Day, Op. 257: Novel I. A knight offers to carry Madonna Oretta on horseback with a story (6 pages total), upon return...
