June 25 - Opus 42: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Musicverse


THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 42


8pm, Saturday, June 25, 2016
Park Presidio United Methodist Church, 4301 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, CA



Prelude

Steve Reich (b. 1936)   
     Three Tales (2002)
          Act III - Dolly

          Video


Program

Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937)
     Organ Symphony No. 5, Op 42, No. 1 (1885)
          V. Toccata

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)   
     Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42 (1901)
          I. Incidental Music

          The Opus Project Orchestra


Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)    
     Piano Variations in C Minor, Op. 42 (1918)
          Lent

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano


Robert Kahn (1865-1952)   
     Ten Songs, Op. 42 (1904)
          III. Chivalrous Courting

          Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano


Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)   
     Romance in C Major, Op. 42 (1904)
          Andante

          The Opus Project String Quintet



Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
     Elegiac Berceuse, Op. 42 (1909)
          Andantino

          The Opus Project Orchestra


Adolf Weidig (1867-1931)    
     Piano Canons, Op. 42 (1911)
          I. Moderato




Ede Poldini (1869-1957)   
     Walzerbuch, Op. 42 (1904)
          I. Lento assai

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano


Albert Roussel (1869-1937)   
     Symphony No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 42 (1930)
                    I. Allegro vivo

Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949)
      The Storm, Op. 42 (1910)
           Tempesto, ma non troppo allegro

           The Opus Project Orchestra


Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)   
     Six Romantic Piano Pieces, Op. 42 (1908)
           II. Barcarole

           Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Louis Vierne (1870-1937)   
     Piano Quintet, Op. 42 (1918)
          I. Poco lento / Moderato

          The Opus Project Piano Quintet



Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
     Eight Piano Etudes, Op. 42 (1903)
          III. Prestissimo

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano


Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
     [English] Folk Song Suite (1923)
          I. March - "Seventeen come Sunday"
          II. Intermezzo- "My Bonny Boy"
          III. March - "Folk Songs from Somerset"

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
     Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 (1931)
          Theme / Variation I

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano


Max Reger (1873-1916)   
     Four Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas, Op. 42 (1900)
          Sonata I: I. Allegro energico

          Kristen Kline, Violin

Henri Marteau (1874-1934)    
     Partita for Flute and Viola, Op. 42 No. 2 (1930)
          Prelude

          Alan Kingsley, Flute / Kat Walsh, Viola


Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
     Piano Concerto, Op. 42 (1942)
          Andante

Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)   
     Symphony No. 3 ("Ilya Muromets"), Op. 42 (1911)
          I. Andante sostenuto

Erno Dohnanyi (1877-1960)   
     Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 42 (1947)
          I. Allegro

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra

Bela Bartok (1881-1943)   
     Transylvanian Dances (1931)
          I. Bagpipers

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
     Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin, Op. 42 (1918)
          I.  Allah, Allah, Akbar

          Alan Kingsley, Flute / The Opus Project Orchestra

Fartein Valen (1887-1952)     
     Serenade for Wind Quintet, Op. 42 (1947)
          I. Allegro moderato

          The Opus Project Wind Quintet


Harry Partch (1901-1973)   
     The Letter (1943)

         Mark Alburger, Voice / Feona Lee Jones, Prepared Piano

Vissarion Shebalin (1902-1963)
     Five Choruses on Poems by Alexander Pushkin, Op. 42 (1949)
          II. Winter Road

                    The Opus Project Orchestra

Boris Blacher (1903-1975)   
     Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 42 (1953)
          I. Andante

          Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
     Five Fragments for Orchestra, Op. 42 (1935)
          II. Andante

          The Opus Project Orchestra


Hans Georg Burghardt (1909-1993)
     Trio Sonata, Op. 42 (1941)
          Grave

          Alan Kingsley, Flute / Stardust, Oboe / Feona Lee Jones, Piano

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
     Saint Nicolas, Op. 42 (1948)
          Andante, poco mosso

          Kristen Kline, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra

Johan Kvandal (1919-1999)   
     Flute Quartet, Op. 42 (1978)
          Allegretto con moto

          The Opus Project Flute Quartet

Giselher Klebe (1925-2009)   
     String Quartet No. 2, Op. 42 (1965)
          I. Due tempi (Allegro con fuoco)

          The Opus Project String Quartet


George Crumb (b. 1929)   
     A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979 (1980)
          II. Berceuse of the Infant Jesus

          Mark Alburger, Piano


Alexander Goehr (b. 1932)   
     Sinfonia, Op. 42 (1985)
          I. Lento

          The Opus Project Orchestra


Mark Alburger (b. 1957)   
     Westminster Tropes, Op. 42 (1991)
          XIV. Parking Lot's Wife

          Alan Kingsley, Flute / Stardust, Oboe / Michael Stubblefield, Guitar


Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
     Piano Trio in D Major ("Summer Rent") (2013)
          Adagio / Allegro con moto / Andante

          The Opus Project Piano Trio


THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger                        Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield                    Associate Music Director and Conductor


Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley

Oboe / English Horn
Stardust

Clarinet
Michael Kimbell

Bassoon
Keith Leung

Trumpet
Michael Cox

Horn
Bob Satterford

Tromba Marina
Aaron Wallace

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Piano
Mark Alburger
Feona Lee Jones

Percussion
Ken Crawford
Cynthia Seagren

Violin I
Kristen Kline

Violin II
Corey Johnson

Viola
Kat Walsh

Cello
Aaron Urton

Bass
Michael Stubblefield


The Opus Project presents

OPUS 43: Symphonic Ecstacy!

8pm, Saturday, July 30, 2016
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA

A Multi-Media Event, with Hussein Al-Naswari, Feona Lee Jones, Kristen Kline,
Elizabeth Morrison,and The Opus Project Wind Quintet and Orchestra

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)            French Suite No. 6: III. Sarabande (1725)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)            Dream Children, Op. 43 (1902)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)             Franciscan Landscape, Op. 43 (1919)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)            Autumn Sketches, Op. 43 (1907)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)            Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (1922)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)            Symphony No. 2, Op. 43 (1902)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)            Symphonic Nocturne (Elegie No. 2), Op. 43 (1913)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)            Bacchus and Ariane, Op. 43 (1930)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)            Humoresque, Op. 43 (1911)
Paul Juon (1872-1940)            Silhouette, Op. 43 (1909)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)            Symphony No. 3 ("The Divine Poem"), Op. 43 (1904)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)        Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (194)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)            Central Park in the Dark (1906)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)            Theme and Variations for Orchestra, Op. 43 (1943)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)            Pulcinella (1920)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)            Divertissement, Op. 43 (1929)   
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)            Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op.43 (1917)       
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)            Speilmusik, Op. 43 (1927)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)            El Salón México (1936)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)        Symphony No. 4, Op. 43 (1936)       
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)            Armenian Folk Song, Op. 43 (1943)       
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)            The Beggar's Opera, Op. 43 (1948)           
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)            Deploration Passacaglia, Op. 43 (1992)