MARK ALBURGER, 2018: June 2018

June 30 - The Opus Project presents Opus 66

THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
(Get Your Kicks with) Opus 66
8pm, Saturday, June 30, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)
     Five-Voice Madrigals, Book VI (1611)
        XVII. Moro Lasso (Alas, I Die)

Frederic Chopin (1819-1849)
     Fantasie Impromptu in C# Minor, Op. 66 (1834)
        Largo

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
     The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Op. 66 (1889)
        I. Introduction

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
     Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 (1891)
        Andante con moto

Erik Satie (1866-1925)
     Desiccated Embryos (1913)
        I. Sea Cucumber

Bela Bartok (1881-1943)
     Piano Concerto No. 3 (1945)
        I. Allegretto

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
     Three Sacred Choruses
        II. Credo (1932)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
     Danzon Cubano (1942)
        Moderately

        Megan Cullen, Piano / The Opus Project Ensemble

John Cage (1912-1992)
     Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947)
        Quarter = 120

     4'33'' (1952)
        I. 30' [33'']

        Mark Alburger, Piano

Benjamin Britten (1912-1976)
     War Requiem, Op. 66 (1962)
        II. Dies Irae

        The Opus Project Ensemble

Bobby Troup (1918-1999)
     (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 (1946)
        Sound-College
        (Anon
        Bing Crosby
        Perry Como
        Nat King Cole
        Chuck Berry
        Patti Page
        Little Willie Littlefield
        Tim Hauser
        Mick Jagger
        Martin Michael Murphy
        Lux Interior
        Natalie Cole
        Lee Brilleaux
        Brian Selzer
        Dave Gahan
        John Mayer)

        Video

George Crumb (b. 1929)
     Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972)
        XI. Dream Images (Love-Death Music)

Philip Glass (b. 1937)
     Hydrogen Jukebox (1988)
        Wichita Vortex Sutra
        (Allen Ginsberg [1926-1997], Wichita Vortex Sutra, 1966)

         Harriet March Page, Voice / Mark Alburger, Piano

Paul Simon (b. 1941)
     The Sound of Silence (1966)
        Moderately

Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
     Eleanor Rigby (1966)
        Moderately, with a beat

Mick Jagger (b. 1943)
     Paint It Black (1966)
        Freely - Moderate rock, very steady

James Morer (b. 1945)
     THX Logo Theme (1986)

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
     Babe Ruth (Rhapsodi Israeli), Op. 66 (1998)
           II. Moabitena (Let Me Go)

     (Get Your Zen on) Interstates 80-55-44-40-15-10, Op. 267 (2017)
           Outre Tempo

           The Opus Project Ensemble

THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE

Mark Alburger                     Music Director and Conductor

Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley

Bassoon
Tim Machajewski

Horn
Bob Satterford

Tuba
Adam Machajewski

Soprano
Megan Cullen

Alto
Harriet March Page

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Harp
John Veitch

Piano
Mark Alburger
Megan Cullen

Percussion
John Veitch

Violin
Kat Walsh

THE OPUS PROJECT presents

OPUS 67: Ludwig and Bela and Igor and the Wolf
8pm, Saturday, July 28, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

With The Opus Project Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)        Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (1808)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)            La Boheme, SC 67 (1896)
Bela Bartok (1881-1943)                Viola Concerto (1945)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)            Perséphone (1933)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)            Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)            Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67 (1921)
George Crumb (b. 1927)            Echoes of Time and the River (1967)
Edwin London (1967-2013)        Portraits of Three Ladies (1967): I. Pocahontas
Philip Glass (b. 1937)                    1000 Airplanes of the Roof (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)                Saul! Saul!, Op. 67 (1998)
Geert Van Hoorick (b. 1968)            Bassoon Concerto, Op.67

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Another miraculous show!

On the 95th day of summer, high up 8 to tie as the hottest of the year, with June 23 --

Fairfield, 102

Martinez, 94

Pleasant Hill, 101\

-- editing page 19 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act II late...

June 29 - Oh Blinding Light

So much printing for The Opus Project presents Opus 66 (8pm, Saturday, June 30, Diablo Valley College, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) that a new print cartridge is in order,

on the 94th day of summer, high up 8 to 97, editing page 18 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act II and preparing parts for Babe Ruth, Op. 66: II. Moabitena...

June 28 - A Valentine Out of Season

[Baude Cordier(1380-1439)'s Belle, Bonne, Sage (Beautiful, Good, Wise, c. 1410) as a gift for Quiz 5 (Renaissance Music), re DVC San Ramon Music Appreciation after 10:30am, Wednesday, July 3]

A Natural (and Harmonic) Minor / Chords in C Major

Three Periods of Aesthetic History after Ancient and Before Classical - and Dates

Medieval - 400-1400
Renaissance - 1400-1600
Baroque - 1600-1750

Three Types of Triads (Chords) and Their Constituent Thirds and Fifths

Major Triad (MT) = Major Third (M3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Minor Triad (mT) = Minor Third (m3) + Perfect Fifth (P5)
Diminished Triad (dT) = Minor Third (m3) + Diminished Fifth (d5) (a.k.a. Tritone)

Listening

Gilles Binchois - Files a Marier (Don't Marry)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8400/01/giles-binchois-c-1400-1467.html
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Binchois

https://books.google.com/books?id=8gwToY1HEoIC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Files+a+Marier&source=bl&ots=u59tx14DnB&sig=4PCzDqMK9keX52yadb2LkFtMDUA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCha6epKLZAhUnxoMKHe1hBE0Q6AEITDAI#v=onepage&q=Files%20a%20Marier&f=false

Conrad Paumann - Mit Ganczem Willen (With All my Heart)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/8410/01/conrad-paumann-c-14151473.html
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Paumann

Josquin des Pres - El Grillo (The Cricket)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-bQ0RkArA
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josquin_des_Prez

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/el-grillo-song-for-4-parts-mc0002358561

Costanzo Festa - Quando Ritrova (When I Find My Shepherdess)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/constanza-festa-1490-1545-sackbut.html
(Recording and Score --
Performance rhythms are markedly different than notation, and measures 14-16 omitted --
Music is repeated in "double" ["doobla"] style, with improvisation in upper shawm line)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costanzo_Festa

Andrea Gabrieli - Ricercar in the 12th Mode (Research in the 12th Mode)

http://markalburgermusichistory.blogspot.com/2008/06/andrea-gabrieli-c-1510-1586-ricercar.html
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gabrieli

Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, Lasso (Alas, I Die)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dVPu71D8VI
(Recording and Score)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo

https://www.allmusic.com/composition/moro-lasso-al-mio-duolo-madrigal-for-5-voices-book-6-w-6-74-mc0002361403

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Quiz 4 for the

Music Historians,

dynamic

travels to

destinations,

including afterwards another jaunt on the

San-Ramon-to-Pleasant-Hill-via-Mt.-Diablo Route,

Scenic north again,

ascending the

Grade to

Foothill

Summit.

After this,

blitz over to Danville's

Los Panchos for a

delicious repaste,

then a

nostalgic

wander

towards

St. Mary's via Reliez Valley and Rheem,

beyond to Moraga and Canyon,

Skyline,

contouring

around on

Tunnel,

to the fifth rehearsal of the Goat Hall Productions, etc.,

read-through of Matthew Owens's The Garden (2013), chez Jeanne Stark --

where a nice autographed picture of Darius Milhaud hangs prominently behind the piano.

But that location is a good place to leave a computer,

leaving blithely homeward with a woodblock in tow (used in the show, and somehow diverting attention from normative behavior). Somewhere around Hercules, the Stravinskian Oedipus Rexian TRUTH STRIKES. Harriet tries calling the technologically elusive Matthew -- no luck -- but reaches Megan Cullen, who acknowledges that the Mac has been found be the residents. Return to scene: lights out, no acknowledgements of knocks until a kindly tenent is roused. We gain admittance to the space... no one, until distant voices are finally roused. Ah, reunion at last! All the printing to do tomorrow for The Opus Project presents Opus 66 (8pm, Saturday, June 30, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA) could not be done without it...

Also edit page 17 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45: Act II, on the 93rd day of summer, high up 4 to 89 (ABCA of 89-91-85-89 last 4 days) --

Fairfield, 85
Martinez, 81
Pleasant Hill, 84
Walnut Creek, 80
Danville, 73
San Ramon, 79
Berkeley, 69

June 27 - Selections

Flower Piano rehearsal at Meghan Dibble's with Martha Cooper and Harriet March Page -- a mostly Kurt Weill repertory with Leonard Bernstein's Candide: I Am Easily Assimilated and Mark Alburger's Henry Miller in Brooklyn, Op. 77: Arthur Rimbaud.