THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 23
8pm, Saturday, November 29, 2014
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 (1875)
I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso
Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano / The Opus Project Ensemble
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
Reverie, Op. 23 (1903)
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Three Songs, Op. 23 (1873)
II. Notre Amour (Our Love, Armand Silvestre, 1837-1901)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Macbeth, Op. 23 (1890)
Introduction
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Sinfonietta, Op. 23 (1934)
I. Sehr lebhaft (Presto)
Hugo Alfven (1872-1970)
Symphony No. 3, Op. 23 (1905)
I. Allegro con brio
The Opus Project Ensemble / Video
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Ten Piano Preludes, Op. 23 (1903)
I. Largo
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 23 (1923)
I. Sehr langsam
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962)
Two Pieces for Flute and Piano, Op. 23 (1917)
I. Melodia (Allegretto grazioso)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger and John Vietch, Piano
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Dance Suite (1923)
I. Moderato
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Oedipe, Op. 23 (1931)
Act I: Prologue
King Oliver (1881-1938)
Dippermouth Blues (1923)
The Opus Project Ensemble
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Romance, Op. 23 (1910)
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Three Songs after Hildegard Jone's "Viae inviae" [Impassible Roads],
Op. 23, No. 1 (1934)
I. Das Dunkle Herz (The Dark Heart) - Getragen (Stately)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Mark Alburger Piano
Jerzy Gablenz (1888-1937)
To My Children, Op. 23 (1925)
Video
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Five Poems, Op. 23 (1915)
III. Follow Me
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
La Creation du Monde (1923)
I. Fugato
Alois Hába (1893-1973)
Suite No. 5 in the Quarter-Tone System, Op. 23 (1925)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Die Junge Magd (The Young Maid), Op. 23 (1922) (Georg Trakl, 1887 - 1914, from
Die Bauern [The Farmers]: Die junge Magd)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Alburger, Piano
The Opus Project Sextet and Ensemble
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Vom Tod im Wald (Death in the Forest), Op. 23 (1927)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Piano Prelude, Op. 23 (1945)
I. Allegro
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23 (1935)
I. Allegro moderato
Video / Mark Alburger & Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano / Opus Project Ensemble
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Opera Armer Columbus [Poor Columbus Opera], Op. 23 (1929)
I. Entr'acte (Overture)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Medea, Op. 23 (1946)
Introduction
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Suite, Op. 23 (1949)
The Opus Project Ensemble / Video
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Introduction and Rondo, Op. 23 (1940)
Introduction
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Variaciones Concertantes, Op. 23 (1953)
Theme
Aaron Urton, Cello / Mark Alburger, Piano / The Opus Project Ensemble
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Madrigals, Book II (1965)
I. Bebe el agua tranquila de la cancion aneja
(Drink the tranquil water of the antique song)
Amanda Mello, Soprano / Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Diversions, Op. 23 (1967)
III. Andante molto e espressivo
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Octet (Eight Lines, 1979)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Sequence Music for a [Keyboard] Trio, Op. 23 (1982)
III. Adagio / Moderato
Mark Alburger, Piano / The Opus Project Piano Trio and Ensemble
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
Psalm 130 (1993)
John Veitch
Prelude and Improvization (2014)
Prelude
Scott Sterling, Tenor / Jill Wagoner, Soprano
The Opus Project Quintet / John Veitch, Organ / Video
THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE
Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute / Alto Flute
Alan Kingsley*
Oboe / English Horn
Eva Langfeldt*
Stardust
Clarinet
Chris Diggins*
Alto Saxophone
Tim Machajewski
Bassoon
Michael Garvey*
Tim Machajewski
Horn
Jan Pusina
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Soprano
Amanda Mello
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Scott Sterling
Piano
Mark Alburger*
Hussein Al-Naswari
John Veitch
Ken Crawford
Cynthia Seagren
Carol Earley*
Cello
Aaron Urton*
*The Opus Project Trio, Quintet, and Sextet
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 24 - 8pm, Saturday, December 27, 2014, Diablo Valley College
A Multi-Media Event, with Kate Bautch, Jill Wagoner, and The Opus Project Orchestra
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 (1890)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Hymn from the Rig Veda, Op 24, No. 1 (1908)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Serenade, Op. 24 (1923)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970) Song, Op. 24 (1903)
George Enescu (1881-1955) Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 24, No. 1 (1924)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Renard: Introduction (1916)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24 (1934)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) The Gambler, Op. 24 (1917)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Les Choéphores, Op.24 (1915)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 24 (1921)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Colas Breugnon: Overture, Op. 24 (1936–1938)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) The Gunshot, Op. 24 (1929)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 (1947)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Yar Nazani, Op. 24 (1938)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Matinées Musicales (Rossini), Op. 24 (1941)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Pampeana No. 3, Op. 24 (1954)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Divertimento No. 2, Op. 24 (1950)
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013) Piano Sonata, Op 24 (1953)
Jan Pusina (b. 1940) New Work (2014)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Piano Variations, Op. 24 (1989)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Orpheus Cycle, Op. 24 (1982)
Stardust (b. 1960) New Work (2014)
Scott Sterling (b. 1970) Endless Rolling Round
John Vietch (b. 1989( New Work (2014)
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Three Songs, Op. 23 (1873)
II. Notre Amour (Our Love, Armand Silvestre, 1837-1901)
Our love is a light thing…
Our love is a charming thing…
Our love is a sacred thing…
Our love is an infinite thing …
Our love is an eternal thing
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Three Songs after Hildegard Jone's "Viae inviae" [Impassible Roads],
Op. 23, No. 1 (1934)
I. Das Dunkle Herz (The Dark Heart) - Getragen (Stately)
Das dunkle Herz,
das in sich lauscht,
ershaut den Fruhling
nicht nur am Hauch und Duft,
der durch das Leuchten bluht;
es fuhlt ihn
an dem dunklen Wurzelreich,
das an die Toten ruhrt:
Was wird,
legt sich mit zarten Wurzeln
an das Wartende im Dunkel,
trinkt Kraft und Stille
aus der Nacht.
eh 'sich's dem Tage schenkt,
eh' es als Liebeskelch
zum Himmel duftet
und eh' aus ihm zu ihm
ein goldnes Flattern Leben tragt:
Ich bin nicht mein.
Die Quellen meiner Seele,
sie sprudeln in die Wiesen dessen,
der micht liebt
und machen seine Blumen bluhen
und sind sein.
Du bist nicht dein.
Die Flusse deiner Seele,
du Mensch, von mir geliebt,
sie stromen in das Meine,
dass es nicht verdorre.
Wir sind nicht unser,
ich und du und All.
The dark heart
which hearkens to itself,
perceives spring
not only by the breeze and scent
which blossom through its glow;
it feels spring
in the dark realm of roots,
which reaches to the dead.
that which grows
lays its tender roots
against that which waits in the dark;
it drinks strength and repose
from the night
before it gives itself to the day,
before as a chalice of love
it sends its fragrance to heaven,
and before from heaven
a golden flutter bears it life.
I do not belong to myself.
The springs of my soul,
they flow into the meadows of him
who loves me,
and makes his flowers blossom
and are his.
You do not belong to yourself.
The rivers of your soul,
thou man, loved by me,
they flow into what is mine
so that it will not wither.
We do not belong to ourselves,
not I, not you, not anyone.
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Die Junge Magd (The Young Maid), Op. 23 (1922) (Georg Trakl, 1887 - 1914, from
Die Bauern [The Farmers): Die junge Magd)
Oft am Brunnen, wenn es dämmert,
Sieht man sie verzaubert stehen
Wasser schöpfen, wenn es dämmert.
Eimer auf und nieder gehen.
In den Buchen Dohlen flattern
Und sie gleichet einem Schatten.
Ihre gelben Haare flattern
Und im Hofe schrein die Ratten.
Und umschmeichelt von Verfalle
Senkt sie die entzundenen Lider.
Dürres Gras neigt im Verfalle
Sich zu ihren Füßen nieder.
Often at the well, at dawn,
one sees it standing, spellbound.
The water-scoop, at dawn
Rises and falls.
In the beeches, western jackdaws flutter
And they resemble shades,
Their yellow hair fluttering
Above a yard-shrine of squirrels.
They compliment the purity,
lowering their fiery eyelids.
Dry grass bends, purifying itself
down to its roots.
