Opus 61
Pianists, Sax, and Violins
8pm, Saturday, January 27, 2018
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61(1806)
I. Allegro, ma non troppo
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (1842)
VII. Wedding March
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 (1846)
I. Sostenuto assai
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
At the Grave, Op. 61 (1904)
Prelude
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)
Summer Day in the Mountains, Op. 61 (1905)
I. Aurore
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61 (1910)
I. Allegro
Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924)
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.61 (1915)
Allegro appassionato
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
The Goblet, Op. 61 (1902)
Poco meno mosso
Felix Weingartner (1863-1942)
Symphony No. 4 in F Major, Op. 61 (1916)
I. Allegro un poco moderato
Alexander Glazunov (1864-1956)
The Ruses of Love, Op. 61 (1900)
Introduction - Allegro moderato
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Festival Prelude, Op. 61 (1913)
Solennemente
The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Flabby Preludes (for a Dog) (1912)
I. Interior Voice - Seriously, but without tears
Megan Cullen, Piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Job: A Masque for Dancing (1930)
Scene VI - Dance of Job's Comforters
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Symphony No. 3 ("The Camp Meeting") (1911)
II. Children's Day ...Piu allegro
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911)
I. Moderato - tres franc
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Four Etudes for Orchestra (1928)
II. Excentrique
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1933)
I. Moderato molto tranquillo
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Double Piano Concerto (1932)
I. Allegro ma non troppo
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Lincoln Portrait (1942)
Subito Allegro
Boris Blacher (1903-1975)
Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Clementi Variations"), Op. 61
Theme
The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Pal Kadosa (1903-1983)
Kaleidoscope, Op. 61 (1967)
III. Allegro / IV. Poco Lento
Mark Alburger, Piano
Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Organ / Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 61
I. Poco allegro
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996)
Steinbeis-Serenade ("Don Giovanni Variations"), Op. 61 (1981)
Theme
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)
Conncerto for Birds and Orchestra ("Cantus Arcticus"), Op. 61
I. Bog
Krzysztof Meyer (b. 1943)
Flute Concerto, Op. 61 (1983)
Introduction
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, ("It wasn't classical…"), Op. 61 (1998)
I. Allegro non troppo
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Minimalist Disney (2018)
The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
THE OPUS PROJECT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Hussein Al-Naswari Associate Conductor
Flute / Piccolo / Alto Flute
Alan Kingsley
Bassoon / Alto Sax
Tim Macajewski
Trumpet
Ryan Berman
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Megan Cullen
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Violin I
Carole Cloud
Corey Johnson
Violin II
Kristen Kline
Viola
Carol Earley
Kat Walsh
Cello
Aaron Urton
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 62
Romancing the Tone
8pm, Saturday, February 24, 2018,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA
With the Opus Project Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (1807)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Chanson russe, Op. 62 (1905)
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) Souvenirs: Poem for Orchestra, Op. 62 (1906)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62 (1909)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 62 (1910)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) Turkish Fragments - Orchestral Suite No. 3, Op. 62 (1930)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Piece from Kuolema, Op. 62 (1911)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Truly Flabby Prelude (for a Dog) (1912)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) Autumn Symphony, Op. 62 (1934)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Dionysiaques for Brass, Op. 62 (1914)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Requiem ("Low Mass of the Dead"), Op. 62 (1934)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) Poème Héroïque, Op. 62 (1919)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Mother Goose Ballet (1912)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Le Baiser de la Fée (1928)
Josef Matthias Hauer (1883-1959) Opera Die Schwarze Spinne, Op. 62 (1932)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Pensées, Op. 62 (1934)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) Sérénade en trois parties, Op. 62 (1920–1921)
Alois Hába (1893-1973) Quartertone Piano Sonata, Op. 62 (1947)
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) Kammerkantate No. 4: Kantate im Exil, Op. 62 (1937)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Rodeo (1942)
Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) Festival Overture for Orchestra, Op 62
Paul Creston (1906-1985) Dance Overture, Op. 62 (1954)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Romance on an English Poet, Op. 62 (1942)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Etchmiadzin: Prayer of St. Gregory, Op. 62 (1946)
Benjamin Britten (1912-1976) Cantata Academica, Op. 62 (1959)
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996) Organ Concerto, Op. 62 (1981)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Spanish Songbook I: The Ghosts of Alhambra (2009)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Symphony No. 2 ("Tamalpais"), Op. 62 (1998)
