THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 36
8pm, Sunday, December 20, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Sonatina No. 1, Op. 36, No. 1 (1797)
I. Allegro
Feona Lee Jones, Prepared Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 (1803)
I. Adagio molto – Allegro con brio
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (1877)
I. Finale - Allegro con fuoco
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1913)
Cantata No. 2 ("At the Reading of a Psalm"), Op.36 (1915)
Introduction
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma"), Op. 36 (1899)
XI. (G.R.S.) [George Robertson Sinclair and his Great Bulldog, Dan]
The Opus Project Orchestra
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Six Songs, Op. 36 (1900)
V. March Snow (Josef Julius Wecksell, 1838–1907)
Feruccio Busoni (1864-1924)
Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 36a (1900)
I. Langsam
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Sonatine Bureaucratique (1917)
I. Allegro
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
A la Cubana, Op. 36 (1914)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Harriet March Page, Alto / Corey Johnson, Violin
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Symphony in C Sharp Minor, Op. 36a (1932)
I. Moderato
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Piano Concerto, Op. 36 (1927)
I. Allegro molto
Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Poeme Satanique, Op. 36 (1903)
Allegro
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 (1931)
II. Non allegro
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Choral Folk Songs, Op. 36b (1916)
III. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1936)
I. Poco allegro
Marion Bauer (1882-1955)
Piano Concerto (“American Youth”), Op. 36 (1943)
I. Majestic
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954)
Prelude and Fugue, Op. 36 (1935)
Fugue - Exposition
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano / Corey Johnson, Violin
The Opus Project Orchestra
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Piano Sonata No. 3 (1917)
Presto
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
Elegie Songbook on Poetry of [Nikolas] Lenau and [Joseph] Eichendorff, Op. 36 (1924)
I. Melancholie (Eichendorff)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Five Capriccetti, Op. 36 (1925)
I. Quasi andante
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Five Poems of C[onstantine] Balmont, Op. 36 (1921)
V. The Pillars - Andante lugubre
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Kammermusik No. 2, Op. 36 No. 1 (1924)
III. Kleines Potpourri - Very light quarters
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Story of the Priest and his Helper Balda, Op. 36 (1934)
I. Overture - Allegro non troppo
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Toccata Festiva, Op. 36 (1960)
Allegro con brio
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Two Ghazals, Op. 36 (1933)
Ghazal I
Video
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
String Quartet No. 2 ("In Time of War"), Op. 36 (1945)
I. Allegro calmo senza rigore
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013)
Serenade for Flute and Strings, Op. 36 (1956)
I. Tres large
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos, Volume III) (1974)
IV. Myth
Alan Kingsley, Flute / The Opus Project Orchestra
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 36 (1975)
I. Andante molto
The Opus Project Piano Trio
Jan Pusina (b. 1940)
Six or Seven Dances for Cello(s), Op. 36 (1977)
The Opus Project Cello Trio
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Lot in Life, Op. 36 (1988)
IV. Lothario
Stardust (b. 1962)
Pipe Dream: A Kemet Chimera (2015)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Two Holiday Improvisations (2015)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield Associate Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Clarinet
Kenneth Rhee
Tenor Saxophone
Trevor Strohl
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Lucie Valentine
Horn
Jan Pusina
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Soprano
Jill Wagoner
Alto
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass
John Veitch
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Cynthia Seagren
Violin I
Corey Johnson
Violin II
Sarah Ho
Viola
Carol Earley
Cello
Young June Kim
Claudia Portillo
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 37
Fired Up
8pm, Saturday, January 23, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
with Alan Kingsley, Jill Wagoner, Feona Lee Jones, and
The Opus Project String Quartet, Pierrot Ensemble, and Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (1803)
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) Burla, Op. 37, No. 2 (1906)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Two Piano Pieces, Op. 37 (1905)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) The First Kiss, Op. 37, No. 1 (1902)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Danza Lenta, Op. 37, No. 2 (1915)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Lethe, Op. 37 (1926)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Psalm 80, Op. 37 (1928)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Rhapsody for Piano Quartet, Op. 37 (1906)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Prelude in B Major, Op. 37 (1903)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) All-Night Vigil ("Vespers"), Op. 37 (1915)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Hymn of Jesus, Op. 37 (1917)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936)
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962) Pizzica-Pizzica, Op. 37 (1931)
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) Grosse Messe, Op. 37 (1926)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) The Soldier's Tale (1918)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) The Fiery Angel, Op. 37 (1923)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Poème, Op.37, No. 1 (1916)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Piano Music, Op. 37 (1925)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) The Human Comedy, Op. 37 (1934)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Die Natali, Op. 37 (1960)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Vijag, Op. 37 (1946)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37 (1946)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Milena, Op. 37 (1971)
Jan Pusina (b. 1940) New Work (2016)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) At a Photo Shop, Op. 37 (1989)
Stardust (b. 1962) New Work (2016)
Michael Stubblefield New Work (2016)
John Veitch (b. 1989) New Work (2016)
Hussein Al-Naswari New Work (2016)
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Another impressive concert, on a similar day, ending with editing page 8 Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1895 - Max Burckhard, Op. 232, No. 17,
in tandem with video, on the 44th day of fall, high only 50 (55 in Pleasant Hill) -- the coldest day of the year thus far, surpassing the chilliest previous on January 1 at 52, with .37 additional precip (3.60 since July 1)...
