THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 29
8pm, Saturday, May 23, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1913)
Prelude and Fugue in G# Minor, Op. 29 (1915)
Video
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Mandoline, L. 29 (1882)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Three Songs, Op. 29 (1895, Otto Julius Bierbaum, 1865-1910)
III. Nachtgang (Nightwalk)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Snofrid, Op. 29 (1900, Viktor Rydberg, 1828-1895)
Opening Chorus
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
The Opus Project Orchestra
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Four Songs, Op. 29 (1922)
III. Die Stille Stadt (The Silent City, Richard Dehmel, 1863 - 1920)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Segovia, Op. 29 (1925)
Video
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Symphony No. 2, Op. 29 (1901)
I. Andante
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Die Toteninsel (The Isle of the Dead), Op. 29
(1909, after the Arnold Böcklin [1827–1901] painting)
Lento
The Opus Project Orchestra
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
St. Paul's Suite, Op, 29 (1913)
III. Intermezzo (Andante con moto / Vivace)
Alan Kingsley, Flute
The Opus Project Strings
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Suite for Septet, Op. 29 (1925)
I. Ouverture (Allegretto - Sehr flott [Very Lively])
The Opus Project Septet
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
I. Allegro moderato
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
The Opus Project Orchestra
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 29 (1940)
II. Vivace, ma non troppo
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Metopes [Greek Architectural Panels], Op. 29 (1915)
I. L'isle de Sirenes (Isle of the Sirens)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Cantata No. 1, Op. 29 (1939, Hildegard Jone, 1891-1963)
I. Zundender Lichtblitz des Lebens (Igniting Lightning of Lives)
Getragen / lebhaft (Solemn / lively)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
The Opus Project Orchestra
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
Two Piano Pieces, Op. 29 (1921)
I. Consolation
Mark Alburger, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 29 (1917)
II. Andante assai
Video
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Klaviermusik mit Orchester (Klavier: Linke Hand), Op. 29 (1923)
[Piano Music with Orchestra (Piano: Left Hand)]
IV. Finale: Bewegte Halbe (Moving Half[-Note]s)
Hussein Al-Naswari and John Veitch, Pianos
The Opus Project Orchestra
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Piano Concerto in B-flat Major, Op. 29 (1948)
I. Allegro moderato
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Prelude and Dance for Piano, Op. 29 (1941)
Video
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Op. 29
(1932, Alexander Preis, 1905-1942, after the
Nikolai Semyonovich [1831-1895] novel)
Prelude
Detumescence
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
Scott Sterling, Trombone
The Opus Project Orchestra
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Hermit Songs, Op. 29 (1953)
V. Crucifixion (The Speckled Book, c. 1100,
trans. Howard Mumford Jones, 1892-1980)
VII. Promiscuity (c. 800, from Kenneth Jackson [1909-1991]
A Celtic Miscellany, 1972 [!])
John Veitch, Tenor
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano
John Cage (1912-1992)
Totem Ancestor for Prepared Piano (1942)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Benjamin Britten (1913-1975)
Prelude and Fugue for 18, Op. 29 (1943)
I. Prelude
The Opus Project Orchestra
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Two Chinese Songs, Op. 29
(1945, from 170 Chinese Poems, trans. Arthur Waley, 1889-1966)
I. All Alone (Traditional)
II. These Days (Wang Chi, b. 700)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Piano Quintet, Op. 29 (1963)
I. Introduzione
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Clarinet Sonatina, Op. 29 (1951)
I. Allegro con brio
Video
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Madrigals, Book IV (1969, Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936)
I. Por que naci entres espejos?
(Why was I born surrounded by mirrors?)
Alan Kingsley, Flute
Jill Wagoner, Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Alto Saxophone Sonata (1970)
II. Allegro energico
Video
William Bolcom (b. 1938)
Nine Bagatelles (1996)
I. The Ghost Mazurka
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Prayer Bell Sketch, Op. 29 (1997)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Street Songs, Op. 29 (1985, after Found Texts)
XIV. You Ain't Seen (Song to a Three-Year Old)
Video
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
As If! Tonal 12-Tone in F (2015)
The Opus Project Orchestra
John Veitch (b. 1989)
Three Pieces for Organ (2015)
II. Waltz
Video
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Eva Langfeldt
Stardust
Clarinet / Piccolo Clarinet
Chris Diggins
Bassoon / Saxophone
Tim Machajewsi
Trumpet / Horn
Keith Leung
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Tuba
John Veitch
Soprano
Jill Wagoner
Tenor
Mark Alburger
John Veitch
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
John Veitch
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Violin I
Kat Walsh
Violin II
Carol Earley
Viola
Christy Venstrom
Cello
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 3-and-0: A Time Odyssey
8pm, Saturday, June 27, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with Alice Chen and The Opus Project Orchestra
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (1896)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30 (1912)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 (1927)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Ragtime for 11 Instruments (1917)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Variations for Orchestra, Op. 30 (1940)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Seven, They are Seven, Op. 30 (1918)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) 2 Love Poems, Op.30 (1915)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Clarinet Quintet, Op. 30 (1923)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Three Pieces, Op. 30 (1939)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Golden Mountains, Op. 30 (1931)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Prayers of Kierkegaard, Op. 30 (1954)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) 4 Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 30 (1966)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1975) Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30 (1943)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Violin Concerto, Op. 30 (1963)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Symphonic Study Machines, Op. 30 (1951)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Violin Concerto, Op. 30 (2002)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Merton Songs, Op. 30 (1986)
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First rehearsal Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of 3) Women / Fallen Angels with our excellent cast of Meghan Dibble, Alexis Lane Jensen, Reina Parks, Paige Patrick, Jill Wagoner -- as part of Goat Hall Productions / San Frnacisco Cabaret Opera Fresh Voices XV: Incarnate, all under the expert direction of Harriet March Page.
Getting
there
is
an adventure (which includes finishing productions of videos for the evening), as is the rest of the day, including the opulent Opus 29 presentation,
where Aaron Urton, John Veitch, and Carol Reynolds provide ample assistance.
Out afterwards, and home late, producing page 12 of Sinfonia, Op. 241, and already planning for Opus 30, finishing this 82nd day of summer, up two to 77 (71 in Pleasant Hill)...
