THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 32
8pm, Saturday, August 29, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
Four Poems [Romances] for Voice and Piano, Op. 32
(1911, Yakov Polonsky, 1819–1898)
I. In Times of Loss (orch. John Veitch, 2015)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
The Origin of Fire, Op. 32 (1902)
Lento assai
The Opus Project Orchestra
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Odes Anacreontiques, Op. 32 (1926, anon. Ancient Greek in the style of Anacreon,
trans. Leconte de Lisle, 1818-1894)
II. Ode XXXIV Sur une jeune fille
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Two Poems, Op. 32 (1903)
II. Allegro Con eleganza Con fidueia
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
13 Piano Preludes, Op. 32 (1910)
I / X
Feona Lee Jones, Piano / John Veitch, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Planets, Op 32 (1916)
I. Mars, the Bringer of War
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Symphony No. 2 (1902)
V. Allegro molto vivace (finale)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
From Today to Tomorrow, Op. 32 (1928, Gertrud Bertha Schoenberg, 1893-1967)
Very moderately
Carol Reynolds, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor
The Opus Project Orchestra
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
Two Pieces for Bass and Piano, Op. 32 (1909)
I. Prelude
Aaron Urton, Cello / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Three Songs to Words of Dmitri Davydov [1811-1888], Op. 32 (1915)
I. Dawn
Alan Kinglsey, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Four Pieces, Op. 32 (1918)
III. Gavotte (orch. John Veitch, 2015)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
String Quartet No. 5, Op. 32 (1923)
The Opus Project String Sextet
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 32 (1942)
Video
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Hamlet, Op. 32 (1932)
II. Overture
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Vanessa, Op. 32 (1958, Gian Carlo Menotti, 1911-2007)
Act I - Fiery
The Opus Project Orchestra
John Cage (1912-1992)
Variations V (1968, Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
Excerpt
Video
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 (1945)
Andante con moto
The Opus Project Orchestra
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Variations for an Album, Op. 32 (1947)
Theme / Variations I-II
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Concerto for Duo Piano and Strings, Op. 32 (1951)
I. Allegro
Video
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)
Elutut Lebenslauf [Curriculum vitae] for Two Basset Horns and Two Pianos
(Tuned 1/4-Tone Apart), Op. 32 (1992)
Introduction
The Opus Project Wind-Piano Quartet
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Lux Aeterna (1971)
(REFRAIN) "Masked Dance for a Dead Prince" - Grave, somber
Music for a Summer Evening (1974)
V. Music of the Starry Night: Five-Fold Galactic Bells
"SONG OF RECONCILIATION" -
Joyous, ecstatic; with a sense of cosmic time
The Opus Project Orchesra
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Impromptus, Op. 32 (1972)
IV. Moderato
The Opus Project Bass Clef Ensemble
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Ophelia's Last Dance, Op. 32 (2010)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Crystal Series, Op. 32 (1987)
I. Crystal Bells
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
Lullaby for Peace (2011)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari
The Big Apple Chorale (2015)
Theme and Variation
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield
Associate Music Director
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Abigail Rolley
Clarinet
Peter Brown
Tenor Saxophone
Matthew Mayoff
Trevor Strohl
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Michael Cox
Horn
Bob Satterford
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Soprano
Carol Reynolds
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Mandolin
Corey Johnson
Guitar
Michael Stubblefield
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Ken Crawford
Carol Reynolds
Violin I
Corey Johnson
Violin II
Carol Earley
Viola
Kat Walsh
Cello
Young June Kim
Erina Lay
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 33 - Love, Love, Love (Valentines Out of Season)
8pm, Saturday, September 26, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Piece for Piano, Op. 33, No. 1 1928)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Elegy and Toccata, Op. 33 (1950)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33 (1919)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Sonata No.1, Op.33 (1916)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Songs from Old Texts, Op. 33 (1923)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Counterplan, Op. 33 (1932)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Nocturne, Op. 33 (1959)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Love Songs of Hafiz, Op. 33 (1936)
John Cage (1912-1992) A Valentine Out of Season (1948)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Peter Grimes, Op. 33 (1945)
John Lennon (1940-1980) All You Need Is Love (1967)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, Op. 33 (1988)
Tickets -- $10 - $20 -- available at the door.
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After finishing printing, program, and videos for the performance -- bomb
down
the
freeway,
to pick up Carol,
and,
via donuts,
off to Cybercopy,
and, eventually, the fantastic show.
Out afterwards
locally, then home to begin editing Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1888 Alma Maria Schindler, Op. 232, No. 10, on the 180th day of summer, high way down 16 to 86 (115 days 80+), with Pleasant Hill and Pinole respectively at 82 / 75....
