April 30 - Legacy

  
SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

Legacy of the Invisible
Rehearsal, 7pm, Thursday, April 30, 2015
Park Presidio United Methodist Church, 4319 Geary Boulevard (at 7th Avenue), SF, CA
Mark Alburger and John Kendall Bailey conducting

Program


Sheli Nan     
     La Tierra - Cancion de Amor (2015)

Jan Pusina     
     Fantasy for Harp and Orchestra (2015)

Michael Cooke     
     for n in reversed (range (1,4)): play (n) pause (n) (2015)
                 
Mark Alburger     
     Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of Three) Women, Op. 231
     (2015, after paintings of Roland March, and found texts)
          I. Teacher in Red Glasses
          II. Arizona Diva
          III. Eve
          IV. Marlena
          V. Jackie in the Southwest
          VI. Tess
          VII. "She" Who Must Be Obeyed

Davide Verotta     
     Quasi Concertante (2015)

John Beeman     
     Ishi (2014)
          Scene 2


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A lush lineage,

leading leeward to levity amongst the listeners and performers (Quiz 13 for the early class;

Antigone, Op. 88: The Pride of Oedipus,

plus a new fantastic work by Jim Cea,

for the mid-day group;

as well as a visits to Joyce's class),

laterals

'cross campus for paperwork,

and

on

to

the City,

with assistance from Carol re the evening's energetic, enlightening entertainments.  Composition page 11 Raising Messiah (an additional leaf for IV. He's a Barefoot, Tangled),

on the 59th day of summer, high 91

(same in Pleasant Hill), tying for the highest temperature of the year with April 27, second at 90+, 16th at 80-or-more,

high 84 in San Francisco).  Ancestor III, supposedly manifesting Claude Debussyesque modal planing, is composed re Totem Variations, Op. 238, and even 239 is begun: Six Little Marys -- just a first page sketched as a collision of Lowell Mason's Little Lamb and Arnold Schoenberg's Op. 19.  The rest of this latter will have to wait for now...

April 29 - Gathering Together

Michael Caulfield's marvelous Composition 5 as an early prelude to later wonders to come,

following Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings: The Shire as Dictation / 

Board Harmony,

antedating the earlier class's close encounter, shall we say, with John Williams's Star Wars: The Force.

Between these, Owen's endeavors.

Before

all

this, 

the

commute;

after,

home to compose page 10 of Raising Messiah, beginning No. 4 Rag "He's a Barefoot, Tangled", in the company of Megan and Harriet, on the 58th day of summer, high 84 (again 81 in Pleasant Hill). Also continue Totem Variations, Op. 238, with Ancestor II, a second variant, theoretically manifesting Chromatic Harmony, but abandoned in favor of permutations re Cage's wonderful basslines...

April 28 - Procession with Orchestra

Diablo

Valley

College

Philharmonic

Orchestra rehearsal of

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 --

the 

day

beginning

with

the

return

of

double

Theory

sections (Dictation / Board Harmony respectively on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar: Hosanna and

Elton John's Lion King: Circle of Life),

an

extensive

intermezzo Owen,

homeward

on

680 and

80 for

errands,

then

back

down --

through Solano,

Napa,

and

Contra Costa -- for paper-grading with

Carol in Pinole,

after

which,

back

on 4, 680, and

Sun Valley...

to

DVC

for the

practice,

and

ending late with composition (page 9) re Raising Messiah, finishing III. What I Need (3 pages total).  High down the 9 again gained yesterday, back to two-days-ago's 82, 57th day of summer (one degree less in Pleasant Hill -- 81).  Also commence Totem Variations, Op. 238, with Ancestor I, based on fragments of John Cage's Totem Ancestor, attempting to follow all the provisos of Owen Lee's requirements for a final composition in his Theory IV class...