April 27 - Spirit of Opus 75-76


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)