Motivation! That's the key, editing page 70 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act II, and continuing to prepare the repertory for
The Opus Project presents Opus '69: Moondance (8pm, Saturday, September 29, 2018, Diablo Valley College, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Dido and Aeneas (1689): When I Am Laid in Earth
https://imslp.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas,_Z.626_(Purcell,_Henry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeB4cpRq16M
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Symphonie Fantastique (1830): IV. March to the Scaffold
https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphonie_fantastique,_H_48_(Berlioz,_Hector)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzGDHt7mJQ
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
21 Hungarian Dances (1869): V.
https://imslp.org/wiki/21_Hungarian_Dances_(Orchestra)%2C_WoO_1_(Brahms%2C_Johannes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMxkietiik
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Four Norwegian Dances (1869): II.
https://imslp.org/wiki/4_Norwegian_Dances%2C_Op.35_(Grieg%2C_Edvard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geh_JOVR8ak
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Liberty Bell (1893) (re-popularized by Monty Python, 1969)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell_(Sousa%2C_John_Philip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QfqJwkuCTw (Monty Python Version - British Grenadiers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1kjVvYpWk (Orchestra)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Tosca, SC 69 (1899): Selection TBA
https://imslp.org/wiki/Tosca%2C_SC_69_(Puccini%2C_Giacomo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLGkXg3j49s
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Billy the Kid (1938): Goodby Old Paint (1869 Cowboy song)
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbVpss8ftE
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945): I. March / IV. Happy Fairy Tale
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMlx9nkIRY8
Symphony No. 14 (1969): Malaguena
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pN6EE7SaxA
John Cage (1912-1992)
Dream (1948)
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTk0s7Q_fZ8
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Tangazo (1969)
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMXoyJ8P1oE
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Sinfonia (1969): III. In ruhig fliessender Bewegung (a collage based on Mahler 2: III)
UC Berkeley Music Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YU-V2C4ryU
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Madrigals, Book III: III / Night of the Four Moons: I. The Moon Is Dead (both from 1969)
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJBAOIuHvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO8Z_m4x208
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Music in Contrary Motion (1969)
Alburger Library
(Various videos online, lamentably none of the original)
Passages (1990)
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZFbVciJ98
John Cleese (b. 1939)
Dead Parrot Sketch (1969)
Video Collage
(Combination of material from Monty Python -- TV Episode 8 [1969],
Album [1970], And Now for Something Completely Different [1971])
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1969)
The Star-Spangled Banner (1969)
Improv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAwPA14Ni4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgyGJl_xm6o
Pete Townsend (b. 1945)
Tommy (1969): Overture
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdusyjiuvY
Robert Fripp (b. 1946)
In the Court of the Crimson King (1969): IV. Moonchild
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjdfOoPK9c
David Bowie (1947-2016)
Space Oddity (1969)
Alburger Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo (1972)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
King David, Op. 69 (1998)
Alburger Library
... the above labours +
errands
and
a
visit from Megan on ye 152nd day of summer, high again 88...
