THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 35
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,
and
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...
