THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 38
8pm, Saturday, February 27, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 38 (1869)
I. Allegro non troppo (E Minor)
Aaron Urton, Cello / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 (1900)
Part I - Introduction
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Symphonischer Festmarsch, Op. 38 (1907)
Maestoso
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 38 (1906)
I. Allegro passionato
Audio
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Five Songs, Op. 38 (1904)
III. In the Night, Op. 38 (1904)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Marche Militaire, Op. 38 (1915)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
The Dark Kingdom, Op. 38 (1930)
Part I - We Dead
Video
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Jazz in the Night, Op. 38 (1928, Rene Dommange, 1888-1977)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960)
Elégie (At Emil Sjögren's Funeral), Op. 38 (1918)
Video
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Children of Lauschen, Op. 38 (1907)
Mother Tells Fairytales
I. From The Beautiful Ringlet
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Six Romances, Op. 38 (1916)
I. In My Garden at Night (Alexander Block, 1880-1921) Lento
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Ode to Death, Op 38 (1919, Walt Whitman, 1819-1892)
Adagio
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 38 (1939)
I. Adagio
The Opus Project Orchestra
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1836)
Notturno (1904)
Hussein Al-Naswari
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
My Captain, Op. 38 (1904, Walt Whitman)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Piano-Rag Music (1919)
Quarter = 144
The Opus Project Orchestra
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 38 (1926)
I. Molto pesante
Video
Fartein Valen (1887-1952)
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 38 (1941)
I. Allegro maestoso
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 38 (1923)
I. Allegro tranquillo
Alois Haba (1893-1973)
Piano Toccata quasi una Fantasia, Op. 38 (1931)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38 (1925)
II. Very fast half-notes
The Opus Project Orchestra
Erich Korngold (1897-1957)
Five Songs, Op. 38 (1947)
I. Congratulations
Video
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Statements for Orchestra (1934)
I. Militant
The Opus Project Orchestra
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Four Walt Whitman Songs (1947)
I. My Captain
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Three Greek Songs, Op. 38 (1953)
I. Sappho
Video
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
24 Piano Preludes, Op. 38 (1944)
I. Andantino
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Six Piano Preludes, Op. 38 (1945)
II. Tranquil
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Love and Hate, Op. 38 (1934)
Video
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Piano Concerto, Op. 38 (1962)
I. Allegro appassionato
Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Occasional Overture, Op. 38 (1946)
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Piano Sonatina No. 1, Op. 38 (1950)
I. Flowing
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Beatrix Cenci, Op. 38
(1971, after The Cenci, 1819, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822)
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)
Three Other Pieces for Clarinet and Cimbalom, Op. 38a (1996)
No. 1. Kanonfele
Video
George Crumb (1929)
Star-Child (1977)
I. Introduction: Desolato
The Opus Project Orchestra
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
A Serenade for Summer, for Chamber Orchestra, Op. 38 (1976)
Video
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Proverb (1995, "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life,"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951)
Mark Alburger, Tenor
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Satyagraha (1980, Constance DeJong, b. 1950)
Act 3: III. Evening Song
The Opus Project Orchestra
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Spectral Preludes, Op. 38 (1989)
IV. Red-Orange (A)
VIII. Blue-Purple (Db)
IX. Blue (Ab)
Video
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Six Short Pieces on 12-Tone Circles (2016)
II. Allemande
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 / English Horn
Stardust
Clarinet
Peter Brown
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Horn
Bob Satterford
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass
John Veitch
Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Hussein Al-Naswari
Cynthia Seagren
Violin I
Keith Leung
Violin II
Donna Ashley
Viola
Donna's Friend
Cello
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 39: Strange But True!
8pm, Saturday, March 26, 2016,
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) In a Strange Land, Op. 39, No. 1 (1840)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Pomp and Circumstance March in D Major, Op. 39, No. 1 (1901)
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) Allegro Giusto, Op. 39 (1906)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Saga-Dream, Op. 39 (1908)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Symphony No. 1, Op. 39 (1899)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Capricho Espanol, Op. 39 (1915)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) The Heart, Op. 39 (1931)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Petit Suite for Small Orchestra, Op. 39 (1929)
Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 39 (1922)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Piano Trio No. 2 ("Caprice"), Op. 39 (1908)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Prelude, Op. 39, No. 2 (1903)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Etude-Tableau, Op. 39, No. 2 (1917)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Perfect Fool: Ballet Music, Op. 39 (1922)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Kol Nidre, Op. 39 (1938)
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Prelude for Violin and Cello, Op. 39, No. 1 (1909)
Cyril Scott (1879-1970) Dagobah, Op. 39 No. 1 (1904)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Three Pieces for Clarinet (1919)
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) Penthesilea, Op. 39 (1925)
Fartein Valen (1887-1952) Song, Op. 39 (1941)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39 (1924)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Cardillac, Op. 39 (1926)
Erich Korngold (1897-1957) Symphonische Serenade for String Orchestra (1948)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Children's Pieces, Op. 39 (1944)
Paul Creston (1906-1985) Poem for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 39 (1945)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) The Limpid Stream, Op. 39 (1935)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991) True Story, Op. 39, No. 1
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Andromach's Farewell, Op. 39 (1962)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Artinis, Op. 39 (1945)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Albert Herring, Op. 39 (1947)
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 39 (1950)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 39 (1972)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Oboe Concerto, Op. 39 (1952)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Apparition (1979)
Peter Schat (1935-2003) Etudes for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 39 (1992)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Glassworks (1982)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Big Beat, Op. 39 (1990)
