December 16 - Opus 60: Birthday Suite


THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 60
Birthday Suite
8pm, Saturday, December 16, 2017
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA


Program

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)      
     Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 60 (1806)
          I. Adagio - Allegro vivace

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)             
     Suite Algérienne, Op. 60 (1880)
          IV. French Military March - Alla giocoso

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)          
     A Page from Homer: Prelude-Cantata, Op. 60 (1901)
         Allegro tempestuoso

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)             
     Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60 (1912, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1874-1929)
          Overture - Andante

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)       
     Two Songs for William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Op. 60 (1909)
          I. Come away, Death! - Lento

Erik Satie (1866-1925)       
     En Habit de Cheval (In Horse's Clothing, 1911)
          I. Choral  / II. Fugue Litanique
          III. Autre Choral / Fugue de Papier

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)             
     Symphony No. 5 ("Prometheus - Poem of Fire"), Op. 60 (1910)
          Lento - Misty


Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)         
     Symphony No. 4 in F Minor (1931)
          I. Allegro

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)                 
     Mother Goose (1910)
          V. Le Jardin Feerique

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)          
     Symphony No. 4 ("Symphonie Concertante"), Op. 60 (1932)
          I. Moderato

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)              
     Lieutenant Kije, Op. 60 (1934)
           IV. Troika

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)             
     Lincoln Portrait (1942)
          Introduction

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)        
     Symphony No. 7 ("Leningrad"), Op. 60 (1941)
          I. Allegretto

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)                 
     12 Preludes and Fugues ("Topical"), Op. 60 (1998)
          Ib. Another Cognitive Disorder (Fugue)

         The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra


Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)    
     San Francisco Symphony Fireworks Spectacular (2017)

          Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano


THE OPUS PROJECT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger                     Music Director and Conductor

Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley

Oboe / English Horn
Stardust

Clarinet
Peter Brown

Soprano
Megan Cullen

Mezzo Soprano
Harriet March Page

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Baritone
Brian Phelan

Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen

Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Brian Phelan
Mia Primrose

Violin
Olga Raldugina

Viola
Adrienne Johnson


THE OPUS PROJECT presents

OPUS 61

Sax and Violins

8pm, Saturday, January 27, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

With the Opus Project Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)                Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 (1806)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)                A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (1842)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)                Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61 (1846)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)            At the Grave, Op. 61 (1904)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)            Summer Day in the Mountains, Op. 61 (1905)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)            Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61 (1910)
Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924)            Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 61 (1915)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)            The Goblet, Op. 61 (1902)
Felix Weingartner (1863-1942)            Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Op. 61 (1916)
Alexander Glazunov (1864-1956)            The Ruses of Love, Op. 61 (1900)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)            Festival Prelude, Op. 61 (1913)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)            Flabby Prelude (for a Dog) (1912)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)            Job: A Masque for Dancing (1930)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)                Symphony No. 3 ("The Camp Meeting") (1911)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)            Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911)
Bela Bartok (1881-1943)            Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra (1940)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)            Etude for Orchestra (1928)   
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)            Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1933)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)            Ballade, Op. 61 (1920)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)            Double Piano Concerto (1932)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)            Lincoln Portrait (1942)
Boris Blacher (1903-1975)            Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Clementi Variations"), Op. 61
Pal Kadosa (1903-1983)            Kaleidoscope, Op. 61, No. 3 and 4 (1967)
Paul Creston (1906-1985)            Celebration Overture, Op. 61 (1954)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991)                Organ / Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 61
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996)        Steinbeis-Serenade, Op. 61 (1981)
Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)            Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 61 (1957)
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)        Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010)             Marimba Concerto, Op. 61 (1997)
Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943)                Flute Concerto, Op. 61 (1983)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)            Symphony No. 1 in C Major, ("It wasn't classical…"), Op. 61 (1998)