THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 52
Non-Taxing Non-Toxic II: Alburger's 60th and More!
8pm, Saturday, April 15, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Georginen: Six Piano Pieces, Op. 52 (1913)
I. Georgine
Mark Alburger, Piano
Ernst Schmidt (1878-1924)
Violin Concertino No. 1, Op. 52 (1924)
I. Allegro moderato
The Opus Project Orchestra
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
Popular Songs of Vivarais, Op. 52 (1900)
I. We Enter this Lovely Month
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
20 Piano Preludes, Op. 52 (1903)
V. Andante espressivo
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914)
Three Ballet Pieces, Op. 52 (1901)
I. Moderato
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
A Christmas Greeting, Op. 52 (1907)
Prelude
Kristen Kline and Carole Cloud, Violins
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
Near the Sea: Six Sketches for Piano, Op. 52 (1901)
I. Andante sostenuto
Henri Pierné (1863-1937)
Passacaille, Op. 52 (1932)
Moderato
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Preludio e Presto, Op. 52 (1928)
PRELUDIO - Con fantasia
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Symphony No. 3 in C Major, Op. 52 (1907)
I. Allegro moderato
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Divertimento for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 52 (1920)
Allegro misurato
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
Flute Sonata, Op. 52 (1913)
I. Adagio molto tranquillo
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 52 (1943)
I. Calm
Ede Poldini (1869-1957)
Arlequinades, Op. 52 (1912)
I. Debut et Serenade
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Sinfonietta, Op. 52 (1934)
I. Allegro molto
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949)
Spring, Op. 52 (1918)
Squirrel and Fox
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 52 (1907)
I. Poeme (Lento)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano / Aaron Urton, Cello
The Opus Project Orchestra
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
Twilight over Lake Ogwen, Op. 52 (1916)
Modere (sans lenteur)
Megan Cullen, Piano
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Four Noveletten, Op. 52 (1903)
I. Allegro moderato
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
L'Heure Espagnole (1907)
I. Introduction (Assez lent)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957)
Five Piano Pieces, Op. 52 (1938)
I. Prelude (Molto sostenuto)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
Eight Songs, Op. 52 (1905)
II. Half-Dream (Otto Leixner von Grunberg, 1847-1907)
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
Three Songs, Op. 52 (1906, Rosamund Marriet Watson, 1894-1911)
I. A Song of London
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Seven Songs on Poems of Alexander Pushkin [1799-1837], Op. 52 (1929)
III. Elegie - Grave
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936)
II. Allegro
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1924)
I. Largo
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
La Berceuse d'Aitacho Enia, Op. 52 (1926)
Lento assai
Megan Cullen, Soprano / Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano / Kristen Kline, Violin
The Opus Project Orchestra
Ernst Toch (1887-1965)
Geographical Fugue (1930)
Video
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Six Piano Pieces, Op. 52 (1931)
I. Intermezzo (Andantino)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Fight / Final Scene
Video
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Variations and Toccata on "Aurora lucis rutilat," Op. 52 (1980)
VARIAZIONE I
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Quest (1994)
I. Refrain I
Kenneth Del Valle-Ruiz, Guitar / The Opus Project Orchestra
Alexander Goehr (b. 1932)
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 52 (1990)
First Part - Quarter = 96
The Opus Project String Quartet
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Street Songs, Op. 29 (1985)
I. All My Relations
Abraham and Isaac, Op. 52 (1996)
II. The Separation (Rag)
Out on the Porch, Op. 107 (2002)
VI. Caroline
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano
Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
The Opus Project Orchestra
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
Butterfly at Play (2017)
The Opus Project Trio
Kenneth Del Valle-Ruiz (b. 1990)
Viento (2017)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
The American Joke: Donald Trump (2017)
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Kenneth Del Valle-Ruiz Associate Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Clarinet / Piccolo Clarinet
Tom Berkelman
Bassoon
Nat Echols
Tim Machajewski
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Soprano
Megan Cullen
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Guitar
Kenneth Del Valle-Ruiz
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Ken Crawford
Violin I
Corey Johnson
Kristin Kline*
Violin II
Carole Cloud*
Viola
Kat Walsh*
Cello
Maddy Stone
Aaron Urton*
Bass
Kenneth Del Valle-Ruiz
* The Opus Project String Quartet
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 53: Essential Existential - 8pm, Saturday, May 27, 2017, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA
With the Opus Project Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 21 ("Waldstein"), Op. 53
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 (1869)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) The Stranger, Op. 53 (1901)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) Bagatelle for Piano, Op. 53 (1903)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Four-Part Song, Op. 53 (1907)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) Ole from the North Country, Op. 53 (1915)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Piano Piece, Op. 53 (1901)
Henri Pierné (1863-1937) Concert Prelude on a Theme of Purcell, Op. 53 (1933)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Mazurka, Op. 53 (1911)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (1903)
Robert Kahn (1865-1952) Sturmlied, Op.53 (1910)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Piano Music for Young and Old, Op. 53 (1930)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Pan and Echo, Op. 53 (1906)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Tanzwalz, Op. 53 (1920
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) Viola Sonata, Op. 53 (1915)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Symphony No. 4, Op. 53 (1934)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Rhapsody, Op. 53 (1904)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Fantasy Piece from Second Suite, Op. 53 (1926)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (1907)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) Menuet-Scherzo, Op. 53, No. 2 (1917)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Piano Silhouette, Op. 53 (1900)
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Piano Prelude, Op. 53 (1938)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Moods and Reflections, Op. 53 (1905)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Stabat Mater (1926)
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959) Cantata Wandlungen, Op. 53 (1927)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) The Water, Op. 53 (1930)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53 (1931)
Alois Hába (1893-1973) Poetry of Life, Op. 53 (1943)
John Cage (1912-1992) The Perilous Night: VI (1944)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Gloriana, Op. 53 (1953)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 53 (1981)
Giselher Klebe (1925-2009) Piano Quintet ("Quasi una Fantasia"), Op. 53 (1967)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Mundus Canis (A Dog's World) (1998)
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010) Lerchenmusik (Lark Music), Op. 53 (1986)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Prelude to "Endgame" (1984)
Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) Prelude, Op. 53 (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Mice Suite No. 2, Op. 53 (1996)
