September 26 - Opus 33: Love! Love! Love! Valentines Out of Season
THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 33
8pm, Saturday, September 26, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
German Folksongs, WoO 33 (1894)
XLII. In Still of Night
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
Five Poems, Op. 33 (1911, Yakov Polonsky, 1819–1898)
II. The Light of the Rising Stars
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Three Piano Pieces, Op. 33 (1905)
I. Early Spring
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Orchestral Suite in F, Op. 33 (1926)
II. Sarabande
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Four Piano Preludes, Op. 33 (1903)
I. Quarter = 96
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33 (1911)
I. Allegro non troppo
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Japanese Suite, Op. 33 (1915)
Interlude - Song of the Fisherman
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Two Piano Pieces, Op. 33 (11931)
I. Moderato
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
The Sirens, Op. 33 (1908)
Introduction
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Chamber Symphony, Op. 33 (1954)
I. Molto moderato, un poco maestoso
The Opus Project Orchestra
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Twelve Piano Etudes, Op. 33 (1916)
I. Presto
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)
Twelve Hafiz Songs, Op. 33
VII. Ich roch der Liebe himmliches Arom
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33 (1919)
March
The Opus Project Orchestra
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
Piano Sonata No.1, Op.33 (1916)
I. Decide [Resolute]
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Six Songs from Old Texts, Op. 33 (1923)
II. Frauenklage
Jill Wagoner / The Opus Project Orchestra
Hermann Reutter (1900-1985)
Saul, Op. 33 (1928)
Prelude
The Opus Project Orchestra
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Elegy and Toccata, Op. 33 (1950)
I. Elegy
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Counterplan, Op. 33 (1932)
I. Introduction
Video
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Nocturne, Op. 33 (1958)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
John Cage (1912-1992)
A Valentine Out of Season (1944)
I.
Mark Alburger, Prepared Piano
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Peter Grimes, Op. 33 (1945)
Act III: Interlude V - Moonlight
The Opus Project Orchestra
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Two [E.E'] Cummings Choruses, Op.33 (1948)
II. Jimmie's Got a Goil
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
String Concerto, Op. 33 (1965)
Theme
The Opus Project Orchestra
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
English Dances, Set 2, Op. 33 (1951)
I. Allegro non troppo
Video
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)
Stele (1994)
Conclusion
The Opus Project Orchestra
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (1971)
PALEOZOIC (VAR. III)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Young June Kim, Cello / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
John Lennon (1940-1980)
All You Need Is Love (1967)
Jill Wagoner / The Opus Project Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Requiem: Songs for Sue, Op. 33 (2006)
I. Emily Dickinson
Video
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, Op. 33
(1988, Paul - First and Second Letters to Timothy)
Book II :
I. Chorale - "As My Tears"
II. Duet - "If We Have Died"
III. Chorale - "Last Days"
IV. Chorale - "Being Sacrificed"
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra
John Veitch (b. 1989)
Nocturne Improvisation (2015)
John Veitch, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield Associate Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Clarino
Ron Cohen
Bassoon
Michael Garvey
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Michael Cox
Horn
Sultan Molaib
Trombone
Spencer Akaba
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Soprano
Jill Wagoner
Alto
Feona Lee Jones
Kat Walsh
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass-Baritone
Ron Cohen
John Veitch
Guitar
Michael Stubblefield
Piano
Mark Alburger
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
John Veitch
Violin
Corey Johnson
Viola
Kat Walsh
Cello
Young June Kim
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 34: In the Footsteps of Abraham
8pm, Saturday, October 24, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1913) Poem, Op. 34 (1911)
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907) Piano Piece, Op. 34 (1904)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Bagatelle, Op. 34 (1916)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 34 (1923)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Concert for Small Orchestra, Op. 34 (1927)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) 14 Romances, Op. 34: XIV. Vocalise (1912)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Lullay My Liking, Op. 34, No. 2 (1916)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Music to a Film Scene, Op. 34 (1930)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) String Quartet No. 11, Op. 34 (1924)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Hebrew Themes Overture, Op. 34 (1919)
Alois Hába (1893-1973) Flute and Quartertone Piano Fantasy, Op. 33 (1927)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Jewish Poems, Op.34 (1916)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) String Trio No. 1, Op. 34 (1924)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) 24 Piano Preludes, Op. 34 (1933)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Wondrous Love Variations, Op. 34 (1959)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Watchman, Tell Us of the Night, Op. 34 (1927)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1975) Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (1946)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Bomarzo, Op. 34 (1967)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Makrokosmos, Volume I (1972)
Steve Reich (b. 1936) Different Trains (1988) / The Cave (1993)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Song for Rebecca, Op. 34 (1988)
August 29 - Opus 32: Music of the Starry Light
THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 32
8pm, Saturday, August 29, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
Four Poems [Romances] for Voice and Piano, Op. 32
(1911, Yakov Polonsky, 1819–1898)
I. In Times of Loss (orch. John Veitch, 2015)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
The Origin of Fire, Op. 32 (1902)
Lento assai
The Opus Project Orchestra
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Odes Anacreontiques, Op. 32 (1926, anon. Ancient Greek in the style of Anacreon,
trans. Leconte de Lisle, 1818-1894)
II. Ode XXXIV Sur une jeune fille
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Two Poems, Op. 32 (1903)
II. Allegro Con eleganza Con fidueia
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
13 Piano Preludes, Op. 32 (1910)
I / X
Feona Lee Jones, Piano / John Veitch, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The Planets, Op 32 (1916)
I. Mars, the Bringer of War
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Symphony No. 2 (1902)
V. Allegro molto vivace (finale)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
From Today to Tomorrow, Op. 32 (1928, Gertrud Bertha Schoenberg, 1893-1967)
Very moderately
Carol Reynolds, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor
The Opus Project Orchestra
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
Two Pieces for Bass and Piano, Op. 32 (1909)
I. Prelude
Aaron Urton, Cello / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Three Songs to Words of Dmitri Davydov [1811-1888], Op. 32 (1915)
I. Dawn
Alan Kinglsey, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Four Pieces, Op. 32 (1918)
III. Gavotte (orch. John Veitch, 2015)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
String Quartet No. 5, Op. 32 (1923)
The Opus Project String Sextet
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 32 (1942)
Video
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Hamlet, Op. 32 (1932)
II. Overture
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Vanessa, Op. 32 (1958, Gian Carlo Menotti, 1911-2007)
Act I - Fiery
The Opus Project Orchestra
John Cage (1912-1992)
Variations V (1968, Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
Excerpt
Video
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 (1945)
Andante con moto
The Opus Project Orchestra
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Variations for an Album, Op. 32 (1947)
Theme / Variations I-II
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Concerto for Duo Piano and Strings, Op. 32 (1951)
I. Allegro
Video
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)
Elutut Lebenslauf [Curriculum vitae] for Two Basset Horns and Two Pianos
(Tuned 1/4-Tone Apart), Op. 32 (1992)
Introduction
The Opus Project Wind-Piano Quartet
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Lux Aeterna (1971)
(REFRAIN) "Masked Dance for a Dead Prince" - Grave, somber
Music for a Summer Evening (1974)
V. Music of the Starry Night: Five-Fold Galactic Bells
"SONG OF RECONCILIATION" -
Joyous, ecstatic; with a sense of cosmic time
The Opus Project Orchesra
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Impromptus, Op. 32 (1972)
IV. Moderato
The Opus Project Bass Clef Ensemble
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Ophelia's Last Dance, Op. 32 (2010)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Crystal Series, Op. 32 (1987)
I. Crystal Bells
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
Lullaby for Peace (2011)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Hussein Al-Naswari
The Big Apple Chorale (2015)
Theme and Variation
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor
Michael Stubblefield
Associate Music Director
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Abigail Rolley
Clarinet
Peter Brown
Tenor Saxophone
Matthew Mayoff
Trevor Strohl
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Michael Cox
Horn
Bob Satterford
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Soprano
Carol Reynolds
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Mandolin
Corey Johnson
Guitar
Michael Stubblefield
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones
John Veitch
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Ken Crawford
Carol Reynolds
Violin I
Corey Johnson
Violin II
Carol Earley
Viola
Kat Walsh
Cello
Young June Kim
Erina Lay
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 33 - Love, Love, Love (Valentines Out of Season)
8pm, Saturday, September 26, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Piece for Piano, Op. 33, No. 1 1928)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Elegy and Toccata, Op. 33 (1950)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33 (1919)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Sonata No.1, Op.33 (1916)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Songs from Old Texts, Op. 33 (1923)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Counterplan, Op. 33 (1932)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Nocturne, Op. 33 (1959)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Love Songs of Hafiz, Op. 33 (1936)
John Cage (1912-1992) A Valentine Out of Season (1948)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Peter Grimes, Op. 33 (1945)
John Lennon (1940-1980) All You Need Is Love (1967)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) San Timoteo Can[yon]tata, Op. 33 (1988)
Tickets -- $10 - $20 -- available at the door.
July 25 - Opus 31: Eine Grosse Sommernachtsmusik
THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 31
8pm, Saturday, July 25, 2015
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
W. de Wycomb (c. 1280-1330)
Sumer Is Icumen In (c. 1310)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
March Slav, Op. 31 (1876)
The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Alexander Taneyev (1856-1913)
String Trio in Eb Major, Op. 31 (1911)
III. Andante espressivo
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Piano Concerto, Op. 31 (1922)
I. Pomphaft mit Kraft und Schwung - bedeutend
[Pompous, with force and momentum - meaningfully]
Audio
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Odes Anacreontiques [Odes in the style of Anacreon], Op. 31
(1926, anon. Ancient Greek, trans. Leconte de Lisle, 1818-1894)
III. Ode XX Sur une jeune fille
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Four Piano Preludes, Op. 31 (1903)
IV. Lento
John Veitch, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31 (1910)
I. The Great Ektenya ["Diligence" / Liturgy]
XII. We Sing to Thee
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Hymn to Dionysus, Op. 31, No. 2 (1913, Euripides, 480-406 BC)
Introduction
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Psalm 100 (1902)
I. Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord
II. Serve the Lord with Gladness
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1928)
INTRODUKTON
The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Six Songs of the Fairy Tale Princess, Op. 31
(1915, Zofia Szymanowska,1898-1946)
I. The Lonely Moon
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959)
Orchestral Suite No. 1, Op. 31 (1925)
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Cantata No. 2, Op. 31 (1943, Hildegard Jone, 1891-1963)
IV. Light the Friar's Trees
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Old Grandmother Tales, Op. 31 (1918)
IV. Sostenuto
Mark Alburger, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Solo Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1924)
I. Very Lively Eighth-Notes
Audio
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Porgy and Bess
(1934, DuBose Heyward [1885-1940] / Ira Gershwin [1896-1983])
Act I - Summertime
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Hypothetically Murdered, Op. 31 (1931)
I. Overture
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Summer Music, Op. 31 (1956)
Slow and Indolent
Video
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Serenade, Op. 31 (1943)
I. Prologue
Stardust, English Horn
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Don Rodrigo, Op. 31 (1964)
Act I: Scene 1 - Victory
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
A Sussex Overture, Op. 31 (1951)
Video
Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)
Ligatura: [Message]-Hommage à Frances-Marie [Uitti]
(The Answered Unanswered Question) (1989)
Aaron Urton, Cello / The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Black Angels (1970)
I. Night of the Electric Insects (Introduction)
The Opus Project String Quartet
Music for a Summer Evening (1974)
II. Wanderer-Fantasy - Introduction
Alan Kingsley and Stardust, Slide Whistles
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
String Trio, Op. 31 (1972)
The Opus Project String Trio
Tan Mi-Zi (b. 1936)
Flute and Drum at Twilight (1981)
Kris Palmer, Flute
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Duo Sonata No. 2 ("Wasatch"), Op. 31 (1986)
II. Adagio
Carol Earley, Viola / Mark Alburger, Piano
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Suiporg Nonam (2015)
I. The Angel's Theme
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Aaron Urton, Cello / Michael Stubblefield, Bass
John Veitch (b. 1989)
Memoriam, for Strings, in G Minor (2015)
The Opus Project String Quartet
THE OPUS PROJECT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger
Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute / Slide Whistle
Alan Kingsley
Kris Palmer
Oboe / English Horn / Slide Whistle
Stardust
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Soprano
Jill Wagoner
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Scott Sterling
Michael Stubblefield
John Veitch
Piano
Mark Alburger
Carol Reynolds
John Veitch
Percussion
Carol Reynolds
Cynthia Seagren
John Veitch
Violin I
Elisa Fischer
Violin II
Corey Johnson
Viola
Carol Earley
Cello
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 32: Music of the Starry Light
8pm, Saturday, August 29, 2015,
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Charles Ives (1874-1954) Symphony No. 2: V (1902)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Planets, Op 32: I. Mars (1916)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) From Today to Tomorrow, Op. 32 (1928)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Four Piano Pieces, Op. 32 (1918)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) String Quartet No. 3, Op.32 (1916)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) String Quartet No. 5, Op. 32 (1923)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Two Songs, Op. 32: (1941)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Hamlet, Op. 32 (1932)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Vanessa, Op. 32 (1958)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Starlight at Noon, Op. 32 (1947)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 1945
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Cantata Bomarzo, Op. 32 (1964)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Concerto for Duo Piano and Strings, Op. 32 (1951)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Music for a Summer Evening: V. Music of the Starry Night (1974)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Ophelia's Last Dance, Op. 32 (2010)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Crystal Series, Op. 32 (1987)
Tickets -- $10 - $20 -- available at the door.
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