THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 70: Ghost Dances
8pm, Saturday, October 27, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Muhammad (570-632)
Call to Prayer (622)
(As heard in Cairo, 1980)
Cenewulf (940-1010)
Veni Veni Emmanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, 970
trans. John Mason Neal, 1818-1866)
Free Organum Composer (b. c. 970)
Cunctipotens Genitor (All-Powerful Creator, c. 1000,
Tuotillo, 865-916)
French Composer (b. c. 1170)
Ductia (c. 1200)
After Florilegium Musicum
Italian Composer (b. c. 1270)
Trotto (c. 1300)
6/8 - 3/8
Jacopo da Bologna (1320-1370)
Non al suo amante (No One Ever Pleased a Lover so Much, c. 1350,
Petrarch, 1304-1374)
Irish Composer (b. c. 1540)
Variations on the Romanesca (b. 1570)
After David Munrow
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major ("Ghost"), Op. 70, No. 1
II. Largo assai ed espressivo
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Elijah, Op. 70 (1846)
Part II
XXI. Aria - Hear Ye Israel!
XXIX. Chorus - He Watching over Israel (Allegro moderato)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Die Walkure (1870)
Act III: Scene I ["Ride of the Valkyries"]
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904
Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 (1885)
III. Scherzo - Vivace
Follower of Wovoka (1856-1932)
Ghost Dances (1890, trans. James Mooney, 1861-1921)
II. Wu'nti Ha'yano' Di'witi'a (All Our People Are Going Up - Caddo)
XLII. Ni Ni (Arapaho)
Daniel Alomia Robles (1871-1942)
El Condor Pasa (1913)
(as repopularized by Paul Simon, b. 1941, in
Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970)
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
The Red Poppy, Op. 70
Act I: XVIII. Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship
["Russian Sailor's Dance" -
Introduction / Nine Variations / Coda]
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), Op. 70 (1936)
Idee Fixe
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70 (1945)
I. Allegro
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
And God Created Great Whales (1970)
Senza misura (possibly 15 seconds) / Andante maestoso
Senza misura = 12 seconds / Andante
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Ancient Voices of Children (1970)
IVa. Todas las tardes en Granada, se muere un nino
(Each afternoon in Granada, a child dies each afternoon)
IVb. Ghost Dance
Lionel Bart (1930-1999)
Oliver! (1960)
XV. I'm Reviewing the Situation
(What Happens When I'm 70?, Must Come a Time, 70...)
Billy Roberts (b. 1936)
Hey, Joe (1962, arr. Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1970, Are You Experienced?, 1967)
Moderately Slow Rock
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Music with Changing Parts (1970)
[Fast, Steady]
Peter Bergman (1939-2012)
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers (1970)
This Side
Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1947)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
Act I: VIII. Hosanna
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Solomon, Op. 70 (1998)
Act I: III. You Know What to Do (The Death of David)
James MacMillan (b. 1957)
Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (1992)
Coda - Easter
Megan Cullen, Soprano / Audience
The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)
Halloween Magica (2018) - An improvisation featuring
William Bolcom (b. 1938) - The Graceful Ghost Rag (1970)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) - The Phantom of the Opera (1986)
Danny Elfman (b. 1953) - Mystic Manor (2013)
Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) - Laterna Magica (2008)
Niccolo Castiglioni (1932- 1996) - Inverno-Inver (1973-78)
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 (1835)
Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31
Luke Shin (b. 1997)
Guitar Mash-Up (2018)
Luke Shin, Guitar and Voice
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley
Clarino
Richard Benitez
Michael Cox
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Richard Benitez
Michael Cox
Horn
Bob Satterford
Trombone
Aaron Wallace
Soprano
Megan Cullen
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass
John Veitch
Guitar
Luke Shin
Aaron Urton
Piano
Mark Alburger
Megan Cullen
Hussein Al-Naswari
Percussion
John Veitch
Violin
Kristen Kline
Viola
Kat Walsh
Cello
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 71: Peace of the Action - 8pm, Saturday, November 17, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
With The Opus Project Orchestra
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1892)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Scaramouche, Op. 71 (1913)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Dona Nobis Pacem (1936)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (1925)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Ave Maria (1934)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Eugene Onegin, Op. 71 (1936)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Symphonie de Chambre No. 3 ("Sérénade"), Op. 71 (1921)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Appalachian Spring for Chamber Orchestra (1944)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Music to the film "Simple People", Op. 71 (1945)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Haroutiun ("Resurrection"), Op. 71 (1948)
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976) Curlew River, Op. 71 (1964)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Symphony No. 4, Op. 71 (1960)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Elijah Rock, Op. 71 (1998)
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An out-of-this-world succession of performances!
214th
day of
summer,
high third-in-a-row the ever-popular 82,
locally and in Fairfield / Pleasant Hill (Martinez, 79)... editing late page 38 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act III, and composing
Cliff Variations, Op. 287 (2018)
Theme and 30 Passacaglic Life Changes
Variation V [Richard Sherman (b. 1928) - Mary Poppins (1967): XIV. Chim Chim Cher-ee]
