THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 50
8pm, Saturday, February 25, 2017
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA
Program
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Pavane, Op. 50 (1887)
Andante molto moderato
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Six Pieces, Op. 50 (1902)
II. Pater Noster
The Opus Project Orchestra
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
In the South (Alassio), Op. 50 (1904)
I. Vivace
The Opus Project Orchestra
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
On the Volga, Op. 50 (1910)
Andante sostenuto
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
Egyptian Nights, Op. 50 (1900)
Allegro moderato
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Sister Beatrice, Op. 50 (1910)
Act I - Andante / Allegro moderato
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
The Lack of Fire, Op. 50 (1901)
Somewhat agitated
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (1922)
I. Tempo giusto
The Opus Project Orchestra
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Harlequin, Op. 50 (1916)
Scene 1: Introduction
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
The Tragedy of Salome, Op. 50 (1910)
I. Prelude (Lent)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Riders to the Sea (1925, John Millington Synge, 1871-1909)
Lento moderato
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 50 (1900)
II. Larghetto
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Wandering Scholar, Op. 50 (1930)
Allegro moderato
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor
Kristen Kline, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Three Times a Thousand Years, Op. 50b (1949)
6/4 = 3/2
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Mavra (1922)
Ouverture
The Opus Project Orchestra
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
20 Piano Mazurkas, Op. 50 (1925)
I. Sostenuto. Molto rubato
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Cello Sonata, Op. 50 (1929)
I. Allegro commodo
Aaron Urton, Cello / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Konzertmusik, Op. 50 (1930)
I. Moderately Fast, with Force
The Opus Project Orchestra
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Piece Breve sur le Nom d'Albert Roussel (1929)
Tres anime
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Boris Blacher (1903-1975)
The Moor of Venice, Op. 50 (1955)
Prolog - Presto
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Elibris - God of Dawn, Op. 50 (1944)
Andante
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Billy Budd, Op. 50 (1951, E.M. Forster [1879-1970] and
Eric Crozier [1913-1994], after Herman Melville [1819-1891])
Prologue - Slowly moving
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Serenade, Op. 50 (1955)
Andante
Stardust, Oboe / Michael Kimbell, Clarinet
Feona Lee Jones, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Giselher Klebe (1925-2009)
Concerto for Five, Op. 50 (1965)
I. Larghetto con passione
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Zeitgeist (6 Tableaux Vivants) (1988)
I. Portent - Molto moderato, il ritmo ben marcato
Alexander Goehr (b. 1932)
…in real time, Op. 50 (1988)
Dotted half = 104
Mark Alburger, Piano
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Mishima (1984)
III. Grandmother and Kimitake
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
L.A. Stories, Op. 50 (1994)
B. Interlude 1 - Bozos and Ozone
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
AlbiBassBoni Adagio
Feona Lee Jones (b. 1985)
Symphony No. 1 (2017)
Moderato / Allegro maestoso
Scott Sterling, Trombone / The Opus Project Orchestra and Audience
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Alternate Bosendorfer Grand Pops Concert (2017)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Clarinet
Michael Kimbell
Bassoon
Nat Echols
Trumpet
Michael Cox
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Cynthia Seagren
Violin I
Kristen Kline
Violin II
Corey Johnson
Viola
Nansamba Ssesalo
Kat Walsh
Cello
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 51: Questionable Practices
8pm, Saturday, March 18, 2017
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, CA
With The Opus Project Orchestra
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Song, Op. 51 (1902)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) Variations on a Polish Folk Theme, Op. 51 (1901)
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932) Old Dutch Song, Op. 51 (1911)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) The Kingdom, Op. 51 (1906)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) Children's Chorus, Op. 51 (1910)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Piano Quintet, Op. 51 (1900)
Henri Pierné (1863-1937) Free Variations and Finale, Op. 51 (1934)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Dramatic Poem, Op. 51 (1910)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Orchestral Song, Op. 51 (1903)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Small Prelude, Op. 51 (1929)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Sarabande (Elegie No. 5), Op. 51 (1919)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Song, Op. 51 (1903)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Study, Op. 51 (1942)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Andante et Scherzo, Op. 51 (1934)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) Strength and Defiance, Op. 51 (1917)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Piano Quintet, Op. 51 (1919)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Fantasy Piece from First Suite, Op. 51 (1926)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Divertimento, Op. 51 (1913)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Piece, Op. 51 (1906)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Sancta Civitas (1925)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) Caprice Impromptu, Op. 51 (1916)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Song, Op. 51 (1900)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) A Choral Fantasia, Op. 51 (1930)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) The Unanswered Question (1908)
Richard Wetz (1875-1935) Song, Op. 51 (1929)
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Piano Prelude, Op. 51 91938)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Piano Aphorism, Op. 51 (1905)
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) The Dream of Life, Op. 51 (1937)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Octet (1923)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Prince Potemkin, Op 51 (1925)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) The Fan, Op. 51 (1929)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) On the Dnieper, Op. 51 (1931)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Petit Air, Op. 51 (1918)
Alois Hába (1893-1973) Children's Moods, Op. 51 (1943)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Piano Concerto ("Aubade") (1929)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Guitar Sonatina, Op. 51 (1956)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Easy Variations, Volume 2, Op. 51 (1952)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Abraham and Isaac (Canticle II), Op. 51 (1952)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Iubilum, Op. 51 (1981)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Tam O'Shanter, Op. 51 (1955)
Claude Ballif (1924-2004) Percussion Symphony ("Timbres e Postes"), Op. 51 (1972)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Easter Dawning (1991)
Alexander Goehr (b. 1932) Sing Ariel, Op. 51 (1990)
Steve Reich (b. 1936) WTC 9/11 (2010)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) The Olympian - Lighting of the Torch (1984)
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010) Flute Concerto, Op. 51 (1991)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) San Rafael News, Op. 51 (1995)
