September 29 - The Opus Project presents Opus 69


THE OPUS PROJECT
presents

OPUS '69: Moondance
8pm, Saturday, September 29, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA


Henry Purcell (1659-1695)      
     Dido and Aeneas (1689)
          Dido's Lament: When I Am Laid in Earth

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)      
     Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 (1830)
          IV. March to the Scaffold

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)      
     21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (1869, orch. 1876, Albert Parlow, 1824-1888)
          V. Allegro

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)          
     Four Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 (1869, orch. Hans Sitt, 1855-1922)
          II. Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso


John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)      
     Liberty Bell (1893, re-popularized by Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969)
          March Tempo

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
     Tosca, SC 69 (1899)
          Act II: Vissi d'arte (Andante lento appassionato)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)      
     Billy the Kid (1938)
          Goodby Old Paint (1869 Cowboy song)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)      
     Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945)
           I. March
           IV. Happy Fairy Tale

John Cage (1912-1992)          
     Dream (1948)

Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)      
     Symphony No. 6, Op. 69 (1956)

          Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano
          The Opus Project Ensemble 

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)      
     Tangazo (1969)

          Mark Alburger, Piano

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)      
     Sinfonia (1969)
          III. In ruhig fliessender Bewegung

          The Opus Project Ensemble

George Crumb (b. 1929)      
     Madrigals, Book III (1969)
         I. La noche canta desnuda sobre los puentes de marzo
         (Night sings naked above the bridges of March)

     Night of the Four Moons (1969)
          I. La luna esta muerta (The moon is dead)

          Mark Alburger, Tenor and Instruments

Philip Glass (b. 1937)          
     [Music in] Contrary Motion (1969)
          Fast, Steady

          The Opus Project Ensemble

     Passages (1990, with Ravi Shankar, 1920-2012)
          VI. Prashanti

          Audio

Peter Bergman (1939-2012)
     How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All? (1969)
          I. The Ralph Spoilsport Mantra

          The Opus Project Ensemble and Audience



John Cleese (b. 1939)          
     Dead Parrot Sketch (1969)
          Collage of Monty Python performances from
          Television Episode 14 (1969), Album 1 (1970), plus
          And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)

          Video


Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)          
     The Star-Spangled Banner (1969,
          after John Stafford Smith, 1750-1836,
          To Anacreon in Heaven, 1780)

Pete Townsend (b. 1945)          
     Tommy (1969)
           Overture

Robert Fripp (b. 1946)          
     In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
          IV. Moonchild

David Bowie (1947-2016)          
     Space Oddity (1969)
          Moderately Slow


Mark Alburger (b. 1957)          
     King David, Op. 69 (1998)
          XII. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)

          The Opus Project Ensemble

Kat Walsh (b. 1980)
     Three Dances for Wind Quartet (2018)
          Dance II

          The Opus Project Wind Quartet



THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE

Mark Alburger                          Music Director and Conductor

Flute / Piccolo
Yein Ra


Clarinet
Peter Brown

Bassoon
Michael Garvey

Trumpet
Richard Benitez

Horn
David Simpson

Trombone
Larry Grabow

Soprano
Megan Cullen

Alto
Harriet March Page

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Bass
Ali Sanie

Piano
Mark Alburger
Megan Cullen

Percussion
Mark Alburger

Violin
Ali Sanie

Viola
Kat Walsh


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THE OPUS PROJECT presents

What Happens When We're OPUS 70?  Must Come a Time, OPUS 70!
8pm, Saturday, October 27, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

With The Opus Project Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)            Elijah, Op. 70 (1846): He Watching Over Israel
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)            Symphony No. 3 ("Sinfonia brevis de bello gallico"), Op. 70
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)            The Red Poppy, Op. 70: Russian Sailor's Dance
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)            The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), Op. 70 (1936)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)            Les MariĆ©s de la Tour Eiffel, Op. 70 (1921)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)            Danzon Cubano (1944)
Hermann Reutter (1900-1985)            Lyric Concerto, Op. 70 (1948)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)        Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (1945)
Lionel Bart (1930-1999)            Oliver! (1960): I'm Reviewing the Situation
Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943)                Musica Incrostata (Incrusted Music), Op. 70 (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)                Solomon, Op. 70 (1998)

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A well-nigh miraculous show!


Excellence on the


186th


day


of


summer,


high


droppping


9


to


75 (falling 22 in the last 2 days -- Fairfield and Pleasant Hill both 76), with the editing of page 11 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, upon return....