THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 65
8pm, Saturday, May 26, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
Menuet sur le Nom d’Haydn, Op. 65 (1909)
Tempo di minuetto
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65 (1919)
(The Woman Without a Shadow), Op. 65 (1919)
Schweigt doch (Silence)
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
The Persian Hours, Op. 65 (1919)
VII. Evening Song
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Three Piano Etudes, Op. 65 (1912)
II. Allegretto
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (1934)
Lento - Lento moderato - Allegretto - Lento moderato
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Violin Concerto in D Major (1931)
I. Toccata
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Music for Children, Op. 65 (1935)
X. March
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
Kammerkantate No. 5 ("War Cantata"), Op. 65 (1937)
I. The Land (Andante)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 (1943)
III. Allegro non troppo
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Avak the Healer, Op. 65 (1946)
I. Overture
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Samson and Delilah (The Frank Judges), Op. 65 (1998)
SCENE I - Start
I. Digits - Adonibezak
Variations on The Romanesca, Op. 251 (2016)
V. England (b. c. 1620) - Greensleeves to a Ground (1650)
Giorgio Spagnoli
Seniors at Play (John Gehl)
X. Amateurs Are Not Professionals
XI. If All You Want Is Fun
Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Kristen Kline, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra
Darren Hussey
Music for Oboe, Bassoon, Piano, and Timpani
The Opus Project Mixed Quartet
Hussein al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Fantasies and Dreams (2018)
The Opus Project Orchestra and Audience
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley
Oboe
Philip Freihofner
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Alejandro Lara-Agraz
Horn
Bob Satterford
Soprano
Megan Cullen
Mezzo-Soprano
Harriet March Page
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Violin
Kristen Kline
Viola / Recorder
Kat Walsh
Cello
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
(Get Your Kicks with) OPUS 66
8pm, Saturday, June 30, 2018, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) Moro Lasso (Alas, I Die, 1610)
Frederic Chopin (1819-1849) Fantasie Impromptu in C# Minor, Op. 66 (1834): Largo
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (1889): Introduction
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 (1891)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Desiccated Embryos (1913): I. Sea Cucumbers
Bela Bartok (1881-1943) Piano Concerto No. 3 (1945): I. Allegretto
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Credo (1932)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Danzon Cubano (1942)
John Cage (1912-1992) Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947)
4'33'' (1952: I. 30'' [33'']
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976) War Requiem, Op. 66 (1961): II. Dies Irae
Bobby Troup (1918-1999) (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 (1946)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972): XI. Dream Images
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Wichita Vortex Sutra (1988)
Paul Simon (b. 1941) The Sound(s) of Silence (1966)
Paul McCartney (b. 1942) Eleanor Rigby (1966)
Mick Jagger (b. 1943) Paint It Black (1966)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Babe Ruth (Rhapsodi Israeli), Op. 66 (1998): II. Let Me Go
(Get Your Zen on) Interstates 80-55-44-40-15-10 (2017)
