October 7 - Travails Tropes


SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger, Music Director


Time Travails
7pm, Sunday, October 7, 2018


St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church,


1490 19th Street (at Connecticut), San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger and Martha Stoddard, conducting


Program

7:00    Harry Bernstein      
             String Quartet (8')
                0000 0000 11210

7:30    Alex Ness      
             Contrafacts (2018) (13')
                1111 1100 Pf Perc 11111 (13)
                    I. Pretty Little Eyes (4')
                    II. You You You (5')
                    III. Me Me Me (4')

8:00    Stardust        
              Home (11')
                3111 1100 Pf Perc 11111 (15)

8:30    Break


8:45    Roberto Becheri      
             War Poems (2018) (11')
                1111 1110 2Narr 3Perc 11111 (17)
                    (As a fanfare / As a parade march) - "They were summoned"
                        (excerpt from Till the Boys Come Home, 1914,
                        Lena Guilbert Brown Ford)
                    (As a romance) - "The train was full"
                        (excerpt from The Mobilization in Brittany, 1917,
                        Grace Fallow Norton)
                    (As a funeral march) - I Have a Rendezvous with Death, 1916,
                        Alan Seeger)
                    (As a lullaby / As a hymn) - "Keep the home fires burning"
                        (excerpt from Till the Boys Come Home, 1914,
                        Lena Guilbert Brown Ford)


9:15    Erling Wold      
              She Who Is Alive (2018) (14')
                3111 2110 Voice Pf 2Perc 11111 (19)
                    I. Overture
                    II. April on the Island
                    III. You are like a star...
                    IV. April's Dream
                    V. April's Apogee

9:45    Kat Walsh        
              Three Dances for Four Woodwinds (8')
                1111 0000 00000
                    I. Quarter = 60 (3')
                    II. Quarter = 80 (3')
                    III. Half = 76 (2')

***


Fantastic second SFCCO rehearsal for the


8pm, Saturday, October 13 concert at St. Mark's Lutheran Church (1111 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA) --


at


present,


the


194th day of summer,


high again 82


Pinole,


83;



Berkeley,


81;



San


Francisco,


79 --


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