Halloween, and the best we can do is dress in black, editing page 3 of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1890 - Franz Viktor Werfel, Op. 232, No. 12, on the 252nd day of summer (168 days 80+)...
October 31 - Dark
Halloween, and the best we can do is dress in black, editing page 3 of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1890 - Franz Viktor Werfel, Op. 232, No. 12, on the 252nd day of summer (168 days 80+)...
October 30 - On the Cusp
Romanticism Quiz for the Music Historians, and beyond to the dawn of the 20th Century...
C Whole-Tone Scale
C D E F# G# A# C
12-Tone Scale
Any re-ordering of a Chromatic Scale
Two Typical New-Music Chamber Ensembles
Pierrot (after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire [Moonstruck Pierrot])
Flute
Clarinet
Piano
Violin
Cello
Histoire (after Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat [A Soldier's Tale])
Clarinet
Bassoon
Trumpet
Trombone
Percussion
Violin
Bass
Igor Stravinsky Birth / Death Dates and Three Stylistic Periods - Types of Music Written
1882-1971
Nationalist / Exotic (Russian / Post-Impressionist / Primitive / Modernist) - Ballets
Neoclassic - Ballets, Concertos, Operas, Symphonies
Serial - Ballets, Memorial Pieces
Listening
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4: I
Charles Ives - Symphony No. 4: I
Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire: I. Moondrunk
Bela Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 1: I
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: Dances of the Adolescents
Alban Berg - Three Pieces for Orchestra: I
***
Ah, the differences of a day and hour, zipping there and
back, with the intervening class as above, beginning the editing of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1890 - Franz Vikor Werfel, Op. 232, No. 12, on the 251st day of summer, high 87 (85 in Pleasant Hill)...
heading out again in the evening
to take in Sarah Ruhl's
Dead Man's Cell Phone at Solano College (first time on the main campus, after 15 years residency in the county),
with Megan and Harriet as part of the Stage Crew -- a course they are taking, and a required one, at that, for Harriet's Theatre Major -- great show, with quixotic music...
Homeward
lateward...
October 29 - Spectrum
The dawn gets later
and the
commute earlier,
rendezvous'ing with the Theoreticians for Dictation / Board-Harmony Voice-Leading on Paul McCartney's Yesterday, bars 1-7,
followed by the written and
aural aspects of Quiz 11, featuring excerpts drawn from the music of Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen, Bela Bartok, John Cage, Jester Hairston, and Richard Rodgers.
Paper-grading and composition thereafter at Magoos,
transitioning over to UC Berkeley for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 35 (8pm, Saturday, November 21, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) and
thence to a visit with Carol also re upcoming concert.
Homeward finally to finish editing Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1889 - Carl Moll, Op. 232, No. 11 (four pages total), on the 250th day of summer, high 82 locally and at DVC... 78 / 71 - Pinole / Berkeley...
October 28 - Alert
An
imcredible
number
of
videos
audited,
over
editing
page 3 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1889 - Carl Moll, Op. 232, No. 11, on the 249th day of summer, high 78...
October 27 - Fire in the Whole
Getting off the freeway, almost pull up in front of a stopped car, but, moments before, detect slight smoke emerging from same, so, shift lanes just in time to nevertheless be immobile for minutes as said vehicle, Hindenberg-like, "Bursts into flames! Bursts into flames!"). While still stuck in the general morass, a firetruck arrive pronto to begin putting out the conflagration, not before traffic finally moves, and we make our getaway.
After an interval, and upon return, the poor auto-da-fe'ed auto is finally transported away, and c. an hour later, nothing (yes, a third crossing of the same intersection, though three different directions) remains to acknowledge that the situation ever occurred but a few charred ashes....
In other news,
make the ungodly early-morning commute, and begin
Voice-Leading-for-Keeps with the Theoreticians, featuring Paul McCartney's Yesterday as Dictation / Board-Harmony. Composition and
Opus 35 meeting with
Carol and a return, on the 248th day of summer, high down 7 to 73 (71 in Pleasant Hill and Pinole) -- continuing to edit page 2 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1889 - Carl Moll, Op. 232, No. 11...
October 26 - Day Errant
Out
and
about for
this and
that, returning to begin editing Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1889 - Carl Moll, Op. 232, No. 11, on the 248th day of summer, high 80 (165 days 80+) --
with a late-night run to
UC Davis Library for research re The Opus Project presents Opus 35 (8pm, November 21, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA)
October 25 - Rah, Rah
Against a counterpoint of videos, compose page 20 Four Michaels (Zodiac Concerto, after The Book of Jude), Op. 245, and develop repertory for
THE OPUS PROJECT presents Opus 35:
Numbers Game
Rehearsal/Concert: 5/8pm, Saturday, November 21,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (Funeral March), Op. 35 (1839): III. Funeral March - Piano / Orchestra
http://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No.2,_Op.35_%28Chopin,_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHZHy2B6MCc
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1898) - Orchestra
http://imslp.org/wiki/Don_Quixote,_Op.35_%28Strauss,_Richard%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJNEuvfeshg
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Two Songs, Op. 35 (1908): I. Jubal - Soprano / Piano
http://imslp.org/wiki/2_Songs,_Op.35_%28Sibelius,_Jean%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zir45Q5cPs8
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Two Chinese Poems, Op. 35 (1927): II. Réponse d'une épouse sage - Soprano / Piano
http://imslp.org/wiki/2_Po%C3%A8mes_Chinois,_Op.35_%28Roussel,_Albert%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZObRY1JLAU
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Three Piano Preludes, Op. 35 (1903): II. Elevato (Bb Major)
http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Preludes,_Op.35_%28Scriabin,_Aleksandr%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0YSJmaYP-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMtaOwwytw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IHiuAzTfbY
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
The Bells, Op. 35 (1913) - Orchestra
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Bells,_Op.35_%28Rachmaninoff,_Sergei%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk8P9C3hdgw
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Four Songs for Voice and Violin, Op. 35 (1917): I. Jesu Sweet
http://imslp.org/wiki/4_Songs_for_Voice_and_Violin,_Op.35_%28Holst,_Gustav%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INGxIuYIjx4
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Six Pieces for Male Chorus, Op. 35 (1930): V, VI - Orchestra
UC Davis / Berkeley Music Libraries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aeiFWZdya0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibc3dnPNmGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njUMa4clSBk
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
Two Pierrot Pieces, Op. 35 (1904): I. Pierrot Triste (Lento) - Piano
http://imslp.org/wiki/2_Pierrot_Pieces,_Op.35_%28Scott,_Cyril%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_RSY7YIjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg4l_qa9khY
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916) - Violin / Orchestra
http://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No.1,_Op.35_%28Szymanowski,_Karol%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_mciYd4kU
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Cello Concerto, Op. 35 (1924) - Cello / Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52XVig5MK7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9v4TPkzW30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SGdtQKfJ8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcoxKCEHS8
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Five Melodies without Words, Op. 35 (1920) - Soprano / Piano
http://imslp.org/wiki/5_M%C3%A9lodies,_Op.35_%28Prokofiev,_Sergey%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcYjB5GeShc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkiCwhOqbzU
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
The Serenades, Op. 35 (1924) - Soprano / Oboe
http://imslp.org/wiki/Die_Serenaden,_Op.35_%28Hindemith,_Paul%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBdnPmzXzY
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Symphony No. 2, Op. 35 (1944) - Orchestra
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCvRaP6H4TQ
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1933): IV - Piano / Orchestra
http://en.scorser.com/S/Sheet+music/shostakovich+piano+concerto/-1/1.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0EsE1LT5ZA
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
A Hand Of Bridge, Op. 35 (1959) - Vocal Quartet / Orchestra
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQp2dRkZE
Benjamin Britten (1913-1975)
Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 (1945) - Soprano / Piano
UC Davis Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dsjNDONCU
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
King Lear, Op. 35 (1948) - Wind Quintet / Piano / Timpani
UC Davis Library
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)
Hölderlin-Gesänge, Op. 35a (1997) - Voice
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjfvje8iNV0
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Makrokosmos, Volume II (1973) - Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wsJYUrleIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWvwgNQv7_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U393o8cfF9E
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 35 (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIafGQMd1PU
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Missa California, Op. 35 - Voices / Orchestra
IMSLP ASAP
***
High 82 (ABA 82-81-82 most recent three days) on the 247th day of summer (164 at 80+)...
October 24 - The Opus Project presents Opus 34
THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 34
8pm, Saturday, October 24, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
Seven Poems, Op. 34 (1912) (Yakov Polonsky,1819–1898)
III. The Mask
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 34 (1904)
III. Waltz (G Minor)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Ten Piano Bagatelles, Op. 34 (1916)
I. Waltz
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 34 (1923)
II. Slow, very solemn
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Concert for Small Orchestra, Op. 34 (1927)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Poeme Tragique, Op. 34 (1903)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
14 Romances, Op. 34 (1912)
XIV. Vocalise
Jill Wagoner / The Opus Project Orchestra
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Lullay My Liking, Op. 34, No. 2 (1916) (Sloane Manuscript, c. 1400)
The Opus Project Vocal Quartet and Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Accompaniment to a Film-Scene, Op. 34 (1930)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Three Masques, Op. 34 (1916)
I. Sheherazade
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
String Quartet No. 11, Op. 34 (1924)
Video
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 (1919)
Un poco allegro
The Opus Project Orchestra
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
Jewish Poems, Op.34 (1916)
I. Chant de Nourrice
Alois Hába (1893-1973)
Fantasy for Flute and Piano, Op. 34 (1927)
Allegro agitato
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Jill Wagoner, Voice / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
String Trio No. 1, Op. 34 (1924)
TOCCATA. Fast Halves
The Opus Project Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
24 Piano Preludes, Op. 34 (1933)
X. C-Sharp Minor
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Wondrous Love Variations, Op. 34 (1959)
Theme
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Benjamin Britten (1913-1975)
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
(Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Henry Purcell), Op. 34 (1946)
Theme
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Bomarzo, Op. 34 (1967, Manuel Mujica Lainez)
"Dies Irae" Orchestral Interlude
Video
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972)
I. Primeval Sounds (Genesis I) (Cancer)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Different Trains (1988)
I. America Before the War
The Opus Project Orchestra
The Cave (1993)
Act II: East Jerusalem - II. Surah 3 - Koran - Arabic Chant
Video
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Songs for Rebecca, Op. 34 (1988)
I. Spiral
III. Aves
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Symphony No. 1 (2014)
I. Moderato
The Opus Project Orchestra
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield Associate Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Clarinet
Kenneth Rhee
Bassoon
Michael Garvey
Trumpet
Michael Cox
Lucie Valentine
Soprano
Jill Wagoner
Alto
Kat Walsh
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass
John Veitch
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Ken Crawford
John Veitch
Violin
Carol Earley
Viola
Kat Walsh
Cello
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 35
Numbers Game
8pm, Saturday, November 21, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Six Pieces for Male Chorus, Op. 35 (1930)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Five Songs without Words, Op. 35 (1920)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Two Gardner Poems, Op. 35 (1917)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) The Serenades, Op. 35 (1924)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1933)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) A Hand Of Bridge, Op. 35 (1959)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) The Lord's Prayer, Op. 35 (1962)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1975) Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 (1945)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Missa California, Op. 35 (1988)
***
Another miraculous concert,
preceeded by video and program production, and last-minute communications. Return to compose page 19 Four Michaels (Zodiac Concerto, after The Book of Jude), Op. 245High down one to 81 on the 246th day of summer (163 days 80+), the same in Pleasant Hill...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)