THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 63
Greensleeves of Mirth
8pm, Saturday, March 17, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Neapolitan Song
[After Luigi Danza(1846-1922)'s
Funiculi, Funicula (1880)], Op. 63 (1907)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914)
Kikimora for Orchestra, Op. 63 (1910)
Adagio
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Symphony No. 2 in Eb, Op. 63 (1911)
I. Allegro vivace e nobilmente
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Joseph's Legend, Op. 63 (1914)
Allegro moderato
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony No. 4, Op. 63 (1911)
I. Tempo molto moderato, quasi adagio
The Opus Project Ensemble
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
Landscapes and Seascapes, Op. 63 (1916)
I. On the Cliff
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
War Song, Op. 63 (1914, Leon Tonnlier)
Calm
Mark Alburger, Piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Magnificat (1932)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Chamber Orchestra Set No. 1 (1912)
I. Calcium Light Night
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Variations on an African Air, Op. 63 (1905)
Molto moderato (maestoso)
Bela Bartok (1881-1943)
Concerto for Orchestra (1943)
I. (Introduzione) - Andante non troppo
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (1929)
I. Presto
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Violin Concerto No. 2 (1935)
I. Allegro moderato
Sarah Kidd, Flute / Kat Walsh, Soprano
Hussein Al-Naswari and Carol Reynolds, Piano
Kristen Kline, Violin
The Opus Project Ensemble
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Five Etudes for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 63 (1920)
First Etude
Video
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)
Very deliberately
The Opus Project Trumpets and Percussion
Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
Symphony No. 5 in Bb, Op. 63 (1947)
I. Adagio
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Gamblers, Op. 63 (1942)
I. Intrumental Introduction - Allegretto
Mark Alburger, Piano
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976)
Missa Brevis, Op. 63 (1959)
I. Kyrie
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Symphony No. 3, Op. 63 (1957)
I. Allegro - Vivace
George Crumb (b. 1929)
American Songbook VII: From the Heartland (2010)
I. Softly and Tenderly
II. Ghost Dance
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)
Good Night, Op. 63 (1990)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Moses and Aaron, Op. 63 (1998)
I. Recitativo - "Now There Arose"
[with All the BBC Sound Files, Op. 192 (2011)
XXVII. Babies]
Mark Alburger, Voice / Piano / Sound Files / Video
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Spring Forever: A Fireworks Spectacular (2018)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
The Opus Project Ensemble
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THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE
Mark Alburger, Music Director and Conductor
Flute
Sarah Kidd
Oboe
Sheila Weston
Clarino
Lois Kail
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Steve Brady
Hughes Bousset
William Collins
Soprano
Kat Walsh
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Sarah Kidd
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Carol Reynolds
Violin
Kristen Kline
Viola
Kat Walsh
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What a show,
on the 62nd day of spring,
high for the third day in a row,
55
(Pleasant Hill, 57; .41 additional rainfall, 11.32 since July 1) --
editing page 56 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45,
and composing
ROMAN DE FAVVEL
(The Horse-Ass Novel -
Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy, Laxity), Op. 276
after Gervais de Bus's Roman de Fauvel (Faus Vel - Falseness), 1314
Book I, Folio 1-2
VIII. Ad solitum vomitum / Regnat (The usual vomit / Rules… 2-voice Latin motet, c. 1200)
