May 3 - Holding Forth


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director

Fast and The Furies
Rehearsal 3 - 7pm, Thursday, May 3, 2018
St Teresa of Avila Catholic Church, 1490 19th Street, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Michael Cooke, conducting

Program

7:00    John Beeman       
                Introduction and Dance (6')
                1100 0000 10110 (5)

7:20    Michael Kimbell        
                Chaconne on a Theme from Henry Purcell's "When I Am Laid in Earth" (5')
                1111 1000 11111 (10)

7:40    Anton Webern       
                Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 (5')
                1121 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (16)
                I. Sehr ruhig und zart
                II. Lebhaft und zart bewegt
                III. Sehr langsam und ausserst ruhig
                IV. Fliessend, aussert zart
                V. Sehr fliessend



8:00    Mark Alburger  
                ROMAN DE FAVVEL (The Horse-Ass Novel), Op. 276 (11')
                after Gervais de Bus's Roman de Fauvel, 1314, Book I, Folio 1-2
                2122 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (18)
                I. Favellandi vicium et fex avarcie (Horse-Ass's fits and sex-greed)
                II. Mundus a mundicia (This lying world)
                III. Quare fremuerunt (Why do the nations rage)
                IV. Super cathedram, sub ypocrisi (This modern world, a flock of hypocrisy)
                V. Scariottis geiniture viperera (The scar of reproduction)
                VI. Heu, quo progreditur prevaricacio! (Oh, how the progress of prevarication!)
                VII. In mari miserie (In the sea of misery)
                VIII. Ad solitum vomitum (The usual vomit) 
     

8:35    Break


8:50    Michael Cooke       
                Open-Ended (10')
                2122 1100 Pf 3Perc 11111 (18)




9:25    Davide Verotta        
                Sinfonietta (11')
                2112 1100 Pf 2Perc 11111 (16)

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More great music --


beginning,


after


the


extraordinary


four-times-weekly


journey,


with the


Theoreticians


tackling Quiz 14,


featuring excerpts drawn from selections by Philip Glass and Sting,


then


homeward


on


ever-popular


680


North



and


80


northeast,


to pick up Harriet,


and


off


we


go


again

to


St.


Teresa's for another evening of vibrant vibrations, on the 40th day of summer, high back up 2 to 79 (ABA of 79-77-79 last 3 days -- Pleasant Hill, 74 / San Francisco, 58)

Edit system 100 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45

and orchestrate / score-study / configure page 3

Opus 65 Orchestrations, Op. 279 (2018)
    I.  Vincent D'Indy - Minuet on the Name of Haydn (1909)
                 (after Symphony on a French Mountain Air)
    II. Sergei Prokofiev - Music for Children (1935): X. March
                 (after The Love for Three Oranges)
Igor Stravinsky - Violin Concerto (1931): I
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8, Op. 65 (1943): III
Alan Hovhaness - Avak the Healer, Op. 65 (1946): I
Mark Alburger - Samson and Delilah (The Frank Judges), Op. 65 (1998):
     SCENE 1 - Start: I. Digits (Adonibezek)