THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
Spirit of OPUS 75-76
8pm, Saturday, April 27, 2019
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
OPUS 75
Greek Chant Composer (245)
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent (275)
Paraphrase, Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885)
Leonin (1133-1190)
Hec Dies (1175)
"This Is the Day"
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Six Songs, Op. 75 (1809)
I. Mignon [Cute] (Ziemlich langsam - A Major -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Lohengrin, WWV 75 (1848)
Act II, Scene 2: Entweihte Götter
[Desecrated Gods]
Cesar Cui (1835-1918)
Seven Poems by Armenian Poets, Op. 75 (1907)
VI. Ely (Smbat Shahaziz, 1841-1907)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 75 (1893)
Poco meno
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Suite Bergamasque, L. 75 (1905)
III. Clair de Lune [Moonlight]
Max Reger (1873-1916)
18 Songs, Op. 75 (1903)
II. Mondnacht [Moonlit Night]
(Franz Evers, 1871-1947)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
(Albert Giraud [Emile Kayenberg], 1860-1929)
I. Mondestrunken [Moon Drunk]
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Symphony No. 3 ("Recycled"), Op. 75 (1999)
I. Moderato
OPUS 76
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony No. 60 ("Il Distratto") (1776)
V. Finale prestissimo
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Six Variations on a Theme in D ("Turkish"), Op. 76
Theme - Allegro risoluto
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Songs of Erin, Op. 76 (1901, Alfred Perceval Graves, 1846-1941)
XXI. Lullaby
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Les Angelus, L. 76 (1892)
Modere (avec une douceur triste)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Sports et Divertissements (1914)
XII. La Pieuvre (The Octopus)
XVII. Le Tango
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Animal Farm, Op. 76 (1999)
XXII. Bears
XXIII. Cats
XXIX. Horses
Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)
Fantasia Internazionale Meraviglie (2019)
Improvisation for Piano, Ensemble, Electronics, and Audience
Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
The Opus Project Ensemble
THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Sarah Kidd
Flute
Kyle Wright
Oboe / English Horn
Sheila Weston
Clarinet
Kyle Wright
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Horn
Bob Satterford
Soprano
Megan Cullen
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Percussion
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Cello
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 77-78: Being and Somethingness
8pm, Saturday, May 25
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
With The Opus Project Orchestra
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (1878)
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Carnival of the Animals (1886)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Next-to-Last Thoughts (1915)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Concerto in Eb ("Dumbarton Oaks") (1938)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Hamlet, Op. 77 (1938)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Symphony No. 3 (1946)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 (1948)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Zartik Parkim ("Awake, My Glory"), Op. 77 (1948)
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976) The Burning Fiery Furnace, Op. 77 (1966)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Henry Miller in Brooklyn, Op. 77 (1999)
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Symphony No. 3 ("Organ") in C Minor, Op. 78 (1886)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) The Girl of the Golden West, SC 78 (1910)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 (1939)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Three Rag Caprices, Op. 78 (1922)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) In the Beginning (1947)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Music to the Film "Michurin", Op. 78 (1948)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Horn Concerto ("Artik"), Op. 78 (1948)
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976) The Golden Vanity, Op. 78 (1966)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Esther Xerxes, Op. 78 (1999)
