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 Mariés 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....
