THE OPUS PROJECT
The Opus $64,000 Question
8pm, Saturday, April 28, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Prelude
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
I. Sierra Pelada
Video
Program
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
Notre Dame Mass (1364)
I. Kyrie
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (1844)
I. Allegro molto appassionato
Kristen Kline, Violin
The Opus Project Ensemble
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Three Waltzes, Op. 64 (1847)
II. Tempo guisto in C# Minor
Carol Reynolds, Piano
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (1888)
I. Andante - Allegro con anima
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 (1915)
Night
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
The Bard, Op. 64 (1914)
Lento assai
The Opus Project Ensemble
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Automatic Descriptions (1913)
I. In a Vessel (at the will of the waves) - Assez lent
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Running Set
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
The Zaporozhy Cossaks, Op. 64
I. Introduction
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Three Poems of Stephen Mallarme [1842-1898] (1913)
I. Sigh
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Sonata for Solo Violin (1944)
II. Fuga
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Symphony of Psalms (1930, Latin Vulgate)
I. Quarter = 92 (Psalm 38, Verses 13-14)
Sarah Kidd, Flute / Megan Cullen, Soprano /
Kristen Kline, Violin / The Opus Project Ensemble
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
Festival Hymn for Orchestra, Op. 64
Video
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 (1936)
Montagues and Capulets
The Opus Project Ensemble
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
Kammerkantate No. 8 ("Pleasure's Death"), Op. 64
(1937, Igacio Silone [1900-1978], Bread and Wine, 1936)
I. The Message
Megan Cullen, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Mass for Five Voices, Op. 64 (1964)
I. Kyrie
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Achtamar, Op. 64 (1948)
Video
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64
(1960, William Shakespeare [1564-1616], 1596)
Act I - "Over hill, over dale"
The Opus Project Ensemble
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996)
Organ Sonata, Op. 64 (1982)
I. Lento
Megan Cullen, Piano / Aaron Urton, Cello
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Commonwealth Christmas Overture, Op. 64 (1957)
Video
Terry Riley (b. 1935)
In C (1964)
1-15
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010)
Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 64 (1994)
I. Andante
John Lennon (1940-1980)
I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963 / 1964)
Moderato (with a beat)
Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
When I'm 64 (1967)
Medium Tempo
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Joshua Fought the Battle, Op. 64 (1998)
IV. The Battle of Jericho
The Opus Project Ensemble and Audience
Georgio Spagnoli
Seniors at Play (John Gehl)
Overture / I. No One Is Here Yet / II. You Love Me Don't You
III. You Hope They Will / IV. I Am Acting Silly
V. For We Are Two in One, And One in Two
VI. You Don't Know the Word?
VII. "Complicated" Is a Weasel Word
VIII. What Exactly Is a Play?
IX. We Should Agree to Disagree
Teressa Foss, Katherine / Mark Alburger, Martin
Harriet March Page, Vicki / Megan Cullen, Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
The Power of Imagination (2018)
The Opus Project Ensemble
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director and Conductor
Flute
Sarah Kidd
Oboe
Philip Freihofner
Trumpet
Hughes Bousset
Soprano
Teressa Foss
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Carol Reynolds
Violin
Kristen Kline
Cello
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 65 - 8pm, Saturday, May 26, 2018, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA
With Megan Cullen, Kristen Kline, and The Opus Project Orchestra
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) Menuet sur le Nom d’Haydn, Op. 65 (1909)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) Dance of the Amazon, Op. 65 (1910)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Coronation March, Op. 65 (1911)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65 (1919)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Dreams for Orchestra, Op. 65 (1915)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (1934)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Violin Concerto D Major (1931)
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) Kammerkantate No. 5 ("War Cantata"), Op. 65 (1937)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 (1943)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Avak the Healer, Op. 65 (1946)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Samson and Delilah, Op. 65 (1998)
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Excellent show, great audience -- on a day also featuring feverish preparation and
a music building filled with the Blue Devils Drum Corps, which kindly/mercifully makes space for us in the recital hall... 83rd of spring, high down 5 to 64, locally and in Benicia...
Fairfield, 65
Martinez, 63
Pleasant Hill, 67
-- with the editing of page 95 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45...
