MARK ALBURGER, 2018: May 26 - The Opus Project presents Opus 65

THE OPUS PROJECT

Opus 65
8pm, Saturday, May 26, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
     Menuet sur le Nom d’Haydn, Op. 65 (1909)
        Tempo di minuetto

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
     Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65 (1919)
          (The Woman Without a Shadow), Op. 65 (1919)
           Schweigt doch (Silence)

Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
     The Persian Hours, Op. 65 (1919)
        VII. Evening Song

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
     Three Piano Etudes, Op. 65 (1912)
        II. Allegretto

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (1934)
Lento - Lento moderato - Allegretto - Lento moderato

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
     Violin Concerto in D Major (1931)
        I. Toccata

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
     Music for Children, Op. 65 (1935)
        X. March

Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
     Kammerkantate No. 5 ("War Cantata"), Op. 65 (1937)
        I. The Land (Andante)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
     Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 (1943)
        III. Allegro non troppo

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
     Avak the Healer, Op. 65 (1946)
        I. Overture

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
     Samson and Delilah (The Frank Judges), Op. 65 (1998)
        SCENE I - Start
               I. Digits - Adonibezak

Variations on The Romanesca, Op. 251 (2016)
V. England (b. c. 1620) - Greensleeves to a Ground (1650)

Giorgio Spagnoli
     Seniors at Play (John Gehl)
          X. Amateurs Are Not Professionals
          XI. If All You Want Is Fun

                Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano
                Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
                Kristen Kline, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra

Darren Hussey
     Music for Oboe, Bassoon, Piano, and Timpani

        The Opus Project Mixed Quartet

Hussein al-Naswari (b. 1991)
     Fantasies and Dreams (2018)

           The Opus Project Orchestra and Audience

THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor

Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley

Oboe
Philip Freihofner

Bassoon
Tim Machajewski

Trumpet
Alejandro Lara-Agraz

Horn
Bob Satterford

Soprano
Megan Cullen

Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen

Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari

Violin
Kristen Kline

Viola / Recorder
Kat Walsh

Cello
Aaron Urton

THE OPUS PROJECT presents

(Get Your Kicks with) OPUS 66
8pm, Saturday, June 30, 2018, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra

Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)        Moro Lasso (Alas, I Die, 1610)
Frederic Chopin (1819-1849)            Fantasie Impromptu in C# Minor, Op. 66 (1834): Largo
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)             The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (1889): Introduction
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)            Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 (1891)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)            Desiccated Embryos (1913): I. Sea Cucumbers
Bela Bartok (1881-1943)        Piano Concerto No. 3 (1945): I. Allegretto
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)            Credo (1932)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)            Danzon Cubano (1942)
John Cage (1912-1992)            Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947)
                   4'33'' (1952: I. 30'' [33'']
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976)            War Requiem, Op. 66 (1961): II. Dies Irae
Bobby Troup (1918-1999)            (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 (1946)
George Crumb (b. 1929)            Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972): XI. Dream Images
Philip Glass (b. 1937)            Wichita Vortex Sutra (1988)
Paul Simon (b. 1941)            The Sound(s) of Silence (1966)
Paul McCartney (b. 1942)            Eleanor Rigby (1966)
Mick Jagger (b. 1943)            Paint It Black (1966)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)        Babe Ruth (Rhapsodi Israeli), Op. 66 (1998): II. Let Me Go
                                             (Get Your Zen on) Interstates 80-55-44-40-15-10 (2017)

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