January 30 - Opus 37: Fired Up!
THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 37
8pm, Saturday, January 30, 2016
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (1803)
I. Allegro con brio
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Two Piano Pieces, Op. 37 (1906)
II. Burla
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Two Piano Pieces, Op. 37 (1905)
II. Prelude
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Five Songs, Op. 37 (1902)
I. The First Kiss (Johan Ludvig Runeberg, 1804-1877)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Nocturne No. 2 (1919, orch. 2016, John Veitch, b. 1989)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Two Dances, Op. 37 (1915)
I. Danza Lenta
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Lethe, Op. 37 (1926)
Video
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Psalm 80, Op. 37 (1928)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Rhapsody for Piano Quartet, Op. 37 (1906)
I. Moderato
The Opus Project Piano Quartet
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Four Preludes, Op. 37 (1903)
III. Andante (B Major)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
All-Night Vigil ("Vespers"), Op. 37 (1915)
I. O Come, Let Us Worship
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Hymn of Jesus, Op. 37 (1917)
I. Prelude
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37 (1936)
The Opus Project String Quartet
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962)
Pizzica-Pizzica, Op. 37 (1931)
Video
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
Partita in Eight Movements (D Major) for Harmonium, Op. 37 (1905)
I. Entrada
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
Two Piano Pieces, Op. 37 (1904)
I. At Dawn
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954)
Grosse Messe, Op. 37 (1926)
I. Kyrie
Video
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Histoire du Soldat (1918)
I. March
Harriet March Page, Voice / The Opus Project Histoire Ensemble
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Demeter, Cantata for Voice, Choir and Orchestra, Op. 37 (1917)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 37
III. Scherzo: Allegro
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Divertimento for String Duet, Op. 37 (1925)
I. Spirited
Video
Fartein Valen (1887-1952)
Violin Concerto, Op. 37 (1940)
Allegro moderato
Lawrence Hwang, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
The Flaming Angel, Op. 37 (1923)
Lawrence Hwang, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Piano Music, Op. 37, Part II: Set of Short Pieces (1927)
XII. Slow and Tender
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Psalm 23, Op. 37 (1945)
Video
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Human Comedy, Op. 37
(1934, Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, La Comédie humaine, 1842)
II. Overture
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Die Natali, Op. 37 (1960)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Vijag, Op. 37 (1946)
Feona Lee Jones and Mark Alburger, Pianos
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37 (1946, Ronald Duncan, 1914-1982,
after Le Viol de Lucrèce, 1931, by André Obey, 1892-1974)
Prologue
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 37 (1949)
I. With Motion
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Milena, Op. 37 (1971, Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, letters [1920-1923]
to Milena Jesenska, 1896-1944)
Praeludium
Video
Malcolm Arnold (b. 1921)
Divertimento for Flute, Oboe, and Clarinet, Op. 37 (1952)
I. Allegro energico
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Stardust, Oboe / Peter Brown, Clarinet
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Dream Sequence (Images II) (1976)
Cidadia Coda
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
City Life (1995)
I. Check It Out
The Opus Project Orchestra
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
At a Photo Shop, Op. 37 (1989)
Mark Alburger, Tenor / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield Associate Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Oboe
Stardust
Clarinet
Peter Brown
Bassoon
Michael Garvey
Trumpet
Sultan Molaib
Horn
Bob Satterford
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass-Baritone
John Veitch
Piano
Mark Alburger
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Violin I
Lawrence Hwang
Violin II
Kat Walsh
Viola
Donna Ashley
Cello
Young June Kim
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 38: Love Dream
8pm, Saturday, February 27, 2016,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 (1900)
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) Symphonischer Festmarsch, Op. 38 (1907)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Piano Trio No.1, Op.38 (1906)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) In the Night, Op. 38, No. 3 (1904)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Marche Militaire, Op. 38 (1915)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) The Dark Kingdom, Op. 38 (1930)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Jazz in the Night, Op. 38 (1928)
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) Elégie (At Emil Sjögren's Funeral), Op. 38 (1918)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 (1939)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 38 (1923)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Church of Leaves, Op. 38 (1916)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38 (1925)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Love and Hate, Op. 38 (1934)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Piano Concerto, Op. 38 (1962)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Mazert Nman Rehan, Op. 38 (1944)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Occasional Overture, Op. 38 (1946)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Spectral Preludes, Op. 38 (1989)