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\

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