THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 71-72
8pm, Saturday, December 15, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Opus 71: After the Fall
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1892)
II. Danses characterisques: a. Marche
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
L'Enfant et les Sortileges (The Child and the Dreams, 1925)
Round of the Bats
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Appalachian Spring (1944)
II. Allegro
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Elijah Rock, Op. 71 (1998)
1. QUARTETTO - Turn
(The Man of God from Judah and the Old Prophot of Bethel)
OPUS 72: Darkness into Light
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Fidelio, Op. 72 (1805)
IX. Recitative and Aria
"Abscheulicher!....Komm Hoffnung...Ich folg'"
Carl Orff (1895-1982)
Carmina Burana (1937)
I. O Fortuna
John Cage (1912-1992)
Sonata and Interludes (1948)
Sonata V
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)
I. Now the Birth of Jesus Christ Was on this Wise
Megan Cullen, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Kat Walsh (b. 1982)
String Quartet (2018)
The Opus Project String Quartet
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Camp Fire
Improvisation (2018)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
Rose Auston (b. 2000)
The Witches' Song (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 - Macbeth, 1606)
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor
Clarinet
Kyle Wright
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet I / Post Horn
Michael Cox
Trumpet II
Gabriel Lara
Horn
Eric Carrasco
Tromboon / Tuba
Adam Machajewski
Soprano
Rose Auston
Megan Cullen
Alto
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Hussei Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Percussion
Michael Kenner
Violin I
Corey Johnson
Violin II / Viola
Kat Walsh
Viola da Gamba / Cello
Aaron Urton
Cello / Bass
Avery Newmiller
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 73-74: When in Romance...
8pm, Saturday, February 15, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
With The Opus Project Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor"), Op. 73 (1809)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 (1877)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Festival Te Deum (1937)
John Cage (1912-1992) Suite for Toy Piano (1948)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Symphony No. 1 ("Low") (1992)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) The Opera of Daniel, Op. 73 (1999)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique"), Op. 74 (1893)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Secular and Instantaneous Hours (1914)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Berceuse sur le Nom de Gabriel Fauré (1922)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Buddha's Little Instruction Book, Op. 74 (1999)
***
What a fantastic show, ending our 6th year!
35th
day
of
fall,
high down 4 to 57
(Martinez, 58;
Pleasant Hill, 60), eventually editing page 85 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and finishing both
The Decameron, Op. 289 (2018)
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day - Novel III - Mitridanes, holding Nathan in despite, journeys with intent to kill him
and
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290 (2018)
I. Bourgeois Ouverture (Comedie-Ballet)
(repectively 12 / 5 pages total)...
But before these last endeavors, drive all the way home with Harriet, only to not have a clear recollection of securing the music building, So, drive all the way back and, lo and behold, building is indeed secure after all, but at least retrieve a San Francisco Chronicle carried about earlier in the day, yet unread. Almost back at residence a second time, and discover an errant key that should be in music lab and realize that another round trip will be needed! Well, that at least will wait until tomorrow...
