April 28 - The Opus $64,000 Question



THE OPUS PROJECT 
The Opus $64,000 Question
8pm, Saturday, April 28, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

Program

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
     Notre Dame Mass (1364)
          I. Kyrie

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)    
     Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (1844)
          I. Allegro molto appassionato

          Kristen Kline, Violin
          The Opus Project Orchestra

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)    
     Three Waltzes, Op. 64 (1847)
          II. Tempo guisto in C# Minor

          Carol Reynolds, Piano

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)       
     Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 (1888)
           I. Andante - Allegro con anima

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)    
     An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 (1915)
           Night

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)        
     The Bard, Op. 64 (1914)
           Lento assai

Erik Satie (1866-1925)       
     Automatic Descriptions (1913)
          I. In a Vessel (at the will of the waves) - Assez lent

Henry Hadley (1871-1937)   
     Symphony No. 4 ("North, South, East, West"), Op. 64 (1910)
          I. North

Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)   
     The Zaporozhy Cossaks, Op. 64
          I. Introduction

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)   
     Three Poems of Stephen Mallarme (1913)
          I. Sigh

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)       
     Sonata for Solo Violin (1944)
          II. Fuga

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)   
     Symphony of Psalms (1930)
          I. Quarter = 92

          Megan Cullen, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra

Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)   
     Festival Hymn for Orchestra, Op. 64

          Video

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)   
     Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 (1936)
          Montagues and Capulets

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)       
     Kammerkantate No. 8 ("Pleasure's Death"),
          Op. 64 (1937)

          Megan Cullen, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)   
     Mass for Five Voices, Op. 64 (1964)
          I. Kyrie

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)   
     Achtamar, Piano Solo, Op. 64 (1948)

          Video

Benjamin Britten (1912-1976)   
     A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 (1960)
          Overture

          The Opus Project Orchestra

Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996)   
     Organ Sonata, Op. 64 (1982)
          I. Lento

          Megan Cullen, Piano

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)   
     Commonwealth Christmas Overture, Op. 64 (1957)

          Video

Alexander Goehr (b. 1932)   
     Sur Terre, en l'Air, Op. 64 (1997)

                        Kat Walsh, Viola / Megan Cullen, Piano

Terry Riley (b. 1935)       
     In C (1964)

Philip Glass (b. 1937)       
     Powaqqatsi (1988)

Jacques Hetu (1938-2010)    
     Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 64 (1994)
          I. Andante

John Lennon (1940-1980)       
     I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963 / 1964)

Paul McCartney (b. 1942)
     When I'm 64 (1967)

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
     Joshua Fought the Battle, Op. 64 (1998)
          IV. The Battle of Jericho

         The Opus Project Orchestra