November 21 - The Opus Project presents Opus 35


THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 35

8pm, Saturday, November 21, 2015
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

          Feona Lee Jones / The Opus Project Ensemble / Monty Python Video

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)      
     Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1898)
          I. Introduction - Moderate tempo

          The Opus Project Ensemble



Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)      
     Two Songs, Op. 35 (1908)
          I. Jubal (Ernst Josephson, 1851-1906)

        
          Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Enrique Granados (1867-1916)  
     Paisaje, Op. 35 (1913)


          Feona Lee Jones, Piano



Albert Roussel (1869-1937)      
     Two Chinese Poems, Op. 35 (1927)
          II. Réponse d'une épouse sage 
          (Chang-Chi [Qi Qian, 710-782], trans. Henri-Pierre Roché [1879-1959],                       
          after the English translation by Herbert Allen Giles [1845-1935])

         Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano



Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)  
     Three Piano Preludes, Op. 35 (1903)
          II. Elevato (Bb Major)

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano



Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)  
     The Bells, Op. 35 (1913, Constantine Balmont [1867-1942],
          after Edgar Allan Poe [1809-1849])
          I. Listen! Hear the Silver Bells

          The Opus Project Ensemble


Gustav Holst (1874-1934)      
     Four Songs for Voice and Violin, Op. 35 (1917, Anon, 1400)
          I. Jesu Sweet (Andante)
      
          Mark Alburger, Tenor / Corey Johnson, Violin

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)  
     Six Pieces for Male Chorus, Op. 35 (1930)
          VI. Obligation

          The Opus Project Ensemble

Cyril Scott (1879-1970)      
     Two Pierrot Pieces, Op.35 (1904)
          I. Pierrot Triste (Lento)

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)  
     Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916)
          Vivace assai - Introduction

Ernst Toch (1887-1965)      
     Cello Concerto, Op. 35 (1924)
          III. Finale

          The Opus Project Ensemble




Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)      
     Five Melodies without Words, Op. 35 (1920)
          II. Lento, ma non troppo

          Corey Johnson, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano



Alois Hába (1893-1973)      
     Mother, Quartertone Opera in Ten Scenes, Op. 35 (1929)
          Overture

          Video



Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)      
     The Serenades, Op. 35 (1924)      
          Part I
          II. An Phyllis: Toccata (Cello)

          Aaron Urton, Cello

Paul Creston (1906-1985)      
     Symphony No. 2, Op. 35 (1944)



Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)  
     Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1933)  
          IV. Allegro con brio (Finale)


          Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Ensemble / Shostakovich Video

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)      
     A Hand Of Bridge, Op. 35 (1959)
          Opening

          The Opus Project Ensemble



Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)      
     The Lord's Prayer, Op. 35 (1962)  

          Video
  


Benjamin Britten (1913-1975)  
     The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35 (1945)
          I. [IV] Oh my Blacke Soule! Now Thou Art Summoned

               Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)  
     King Lear, Op. 35 (1948)
          I. Lear's Dance of Vengeance

          The Opus Project Ensemble

Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)      
     Holderlin Songs, Op. 35 (1997)
          I. An...Hommage A D.E. Sattler


          Mark Alburger, Voice

George Crumb (b. 1929)      
     Makrokosmos (Volume II): Twelve Fantasy Pieces after the Zodiac (1973)
          I. Morning Music (Genesis II) Cancer - Exuberantly, with primitive energy

          Mark Alburger, Piano


Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)  
     Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 35 (1974)

          Video

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)      
     Missa California, Op. 35 (1988)
          I. Kyrie
          II. Gloria
          III. Credo
          IV. Sanctus
          V. Agnus Dei

          The Opus Project Ensemble



Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)   
     Six Short Piano Pieces on 12-Tone Circles (2015)
          I. Prelude

          Michael Stubblefield, Piano



           THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE

Mark Alburger                    Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield                Associate Music Director and Conductor

Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley

Bassoon
Tim Machajewski

Soprano
Feona Lee Jones

Alto
Cynthia Seagren

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Bass
John Veitch


Piano
Mark Alburger
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch

Percussion
Ken Crawford
Cynthia Seagren

Violin
Corey Johnson

Cello
Aaron Urton

Bass
Michael Stubblefield


THE OPUS PROJECT presents

OPUS 36: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery

8pm, Sunday, December 20, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event,
with Allan Kingsley, Jill Wagoner, Feona Lee Jones, and The Opus Project Orchestra

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)         Sonatina, Op. 36, No. 1 (1797)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)            Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 (1803)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)            Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (1877)
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1913)            At the Reading of a Psalm, Op.36 (1915)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)            Enigma Variations, Op. 36, No. 11 (1899)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)             Sonatine Bureaucratique (1917)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)            A la Cubana, Op. 36 (1914)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)            Symphony in C Sharp Minor, Op. 36a (1932)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)            Piano Concerto, Op. 36 (1927)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)            Poeme Satanique, Op. 36 (1903)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)            Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 (1931)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)            Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1936)
Marion Bauer (1882-1955)            Piano Concerto (“American Youth”), Op. 36 (1943
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954)        Prelude and Fugue, Op. 36 (1935)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)            Piano Sonata No. 3 (1917)
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)            Elegie, Op. 36 (1924)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)            Capriccetti, Op. 36 (1925)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)            Five Balmont Poems, Op. 36 (1921)  
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)            Kammermusik No. 2, Op. 36 No. 1 (1924)  
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)            The Priest and Balda, Op. 36 (1934)  
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)            Toccata Festiva, Op. 36 (1960)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)            Two Ghazals, Op. 36 (1933)          
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)        String Quartet No. 2, Op. 36 (1945)
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013)            Serenade for Flute and Strings, Op. 36 (1956)
George Crumb (b. 1959)            Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos, Volume III) (1974)
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)            Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 36, No. 1 (1975)       
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)            Lot in Life, Op. 36 (1988)

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Produce videos and program,


before heading off to pick up


Carol,


who ably assists in


production,


set-up,


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box office for another remarkable show.  Late, finish composition of The Decameron - Fifth Day, Op. 247: Novel I - Cimon, by Loving, Waxes Wise, Wins Iphegenia, Op. 247, No. 1 and edit a third sheet re Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1893 - Alma / Sophie / Grete, Op. 232, No. 15 -- on the 266th day of summer, high 73... 70 in Pinole / Pleasant Hill...