THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 22
8pm, Saturday, October 25, 2014
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22 (1800)
I. Allegro con nrio
Geri Chang, Piano
Friedrich Kummer (1797-1879)
Three Duets, Op. 22 (1835)
I. Allegro (Introduction)
Elizabeth Morrison, Cello / Maria Reeves, Piano
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Danse Macabre (1874)
John Yoon, Violin / The Opus Project Orchestra
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
Piano Trio, Op. 22 (1908)
I. Allegro
The Opus Project Piano Trio
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 1 (1888)
III. The Huntsman's Funeral - Dirge
Ludwig Thuille (1861-1907)
Cello Sonata, Op. 22 (1902)
I. Allegro energetico, ma non troppo presto
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
For a Spring Festival, Op. 22 (1920)
Introduction
The Opus Project Orchestra
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Chopin C-Minor Prelude Variations, Op. 22 (1903)
Theme / Variation I
Hussein Al-Naswari and Mark Alburger, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Two Songs without Words, Op 22 (1906)
I. Country Song
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Four Orchestral Songs, Op. 22 (1916)
II. All Who Seek You (Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962)
Two Pieces, Op. 22 (1917)
I. Canzonetta - Theme
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
George Enescu (1881-1955)
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22 (1920)
I. Sehr massig (Molto moderato) - Introduction
The Opus Project String Quartet
Marion Bauer (1882-1955)
Viola Sonata, Op. 22 (1932)
I. Allegretto (rubato)
Carolyn Lowenthal, Viola / Maria Reeves, Piano
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Colorful Songs, Op. 22 (1910)
V. Bestimmung - Przeznaczenie (Regulation - Ricarda Huch, 1864-1947)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Maria Reeves, Piano
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Quartet, Op. 22 (1930)
I. Sehr Massig (Very Moderate)
The Opus Project Wind-String-Piano Quartet
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 (1917)
XVI. Dolente
Mark Alburger, Piano
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
Poème de Gitanjali (Poem From "The Offerings"), Op.22 (1914)
(Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941; trans André Gide, 1869-1951)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Maria Reeves, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 (1922)
II. Schnell Achtell. Sehr energisch (Fast eighths. Very energetic) - Beginning
The Opus Project String Quartet
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Piano Concerto (1926)
II. . . . Sub. molto allegro
Maria Reeves, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
Viola Sonata in D Minor, Op. 22 (1945)
II. Adagio
Carolyn Lowenthal, Viola / Maria Reeves, Piano
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Symphony No. 3 in Bb ("Requiem"), Op. 22 (1933)
II. Andante marciale, lugubre (Introduction)
Video
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Age of Gold, Op. 22 (1930)
III. Polka
The Opus Project Orchestra
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Cello Concerto, Op. 22 (1945)
I. Allegro moderato (Theme)
Aaron Urton, Cello / The Opus Project Orchestra
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Mystic Flute, Op. 22 (1937)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
John Cage (1912-1992)
Living Room Music (1940)
II. Story (Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, The World Is Round, 1938)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo [di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
Rime, 1623], Op. 22 (1940)
III. Sonneto XXX
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Maria Reeves, Piano
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 22 (1943)
II. Episode
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22 (1952)
III. Adagio molto appassionato
Mark Alburger, Piano
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1949)
I. Allegro (Introduction)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013)
17 Variations for Woodwind Quintet, Op. 22 (1947)
I-VI
The Opus Project Woodwind Quintet
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Madrigals, Book I (1965, after Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936)
I. Verte desnuda es recordar la tierra
(To see you naked is to remember the earth)
Mark Alburger, Voice and Piano / Elizabeth Morrison, Cello
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1966)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Carolmarie Reynolds (b. 1930)
Flying Bears Ranch (2014)
The Opus Project Orchestra
John McGrew (b. 1942)
Three Haiku (2002)
I. Sierra Pine Cone
II. Breath In and Out
III. Winter Night Bird Sings
The Opus Project String Quartet
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Flourish with Fireworks, Op. 22 (1988)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Duo Sonata No. 1 ("Hyphenated"), Op. 22 (1981)
IV. Dance-Syncops
Carolyn Lowenthal, Violin / Elizabeth Morrison, Cello
Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)
Williams Fantasy (2014)
Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano
David Machajewski (b. 2000)
String Quartet No. 1 (2014)
The Opus Project String Quartet
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Eva Langfeldt
Stardust
Clarinet
Christy Diggins
Soprano / Tenor Saxophone
Tim Machajewski
Bassoon
Michael Garvey
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet
Michael Cox
Horn
Bob Satterford
Trombone
Emily Sanchez
Soprano
Jill Wagoner
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Geri Chang
Maria Reeves
Percussion
Ken Crawford
John Veitch
Violin I
Carolyn Lowenthal
Stephen Yang
John Yoon
Violin II
Silvana Huynh
Corey Johnson
David Machajewski
Viola
Carol Earley
Carolyn Lowenthal
Kat Walsh
Cello
Elizabeth Morrison
Aaron Urton
Bass
John McGrew
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 23 - 8pm, Saturday, November 29, 2014, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with The Opus Project Orchestra
Richard Strauss 1864-1949) Macbeth, Op. 23 (1890)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Sita, Op 23 (1906)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Piece for Piano, Op. 23, No. 1 (1923)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) Dance Suite (1923)
George Enescu (1881-1955) Oedipus, Op. 23 (1931)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Song on Hildegard Jone, Op. 23, No. 1 (1934)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Poem, Op. 23, No. 1 (1915)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Variations on Cliquet, Op.23 (1915)
Alois Hába (1893-1973) Suite No. 5 in the 1/4-Tone System, Op. 23 (1925)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Die Junge Magd, Op. 23 (1922)
Kurt Weill (1900-1950) Death in the Forest, Op. 23 (1927)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Piano Prelude, Op. 23, No. 1 (1945)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 23, No. 1 (1935)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Opera Armer Columbus, Op. 23 (1929)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Medea, Op. 23 (1946)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Suite for Oboe and Bassoon, Op. 23 (1949)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Introduction and Rondo, Op. 23 (1940)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23 (1953)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Late Poem of Rilke, Op. 23, No. 1 (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Sequence Music for a Trio, Op. 23 (1982)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Orchestral Songs, Op. 22 (1916)
II. Alle Welche Dich Suchen [All Who Seek You,
Rainer Maria Rilke, (1875-1926), Das Stundenbuch
(The Book of Hours): II. Das Buch von der Pilgerschaft, No. 15
(The Book of the Pilgrimage), 1903]
Alle, welche dich suchen, versuchen dich.
Und die, so dich finden, binden dich
An Bild und Gebärde.
Ich aber will dich begreifen,
Wie dich die Erde begreift;
Mit meinem Reifen
Reift
Dein Reich.
Ich will von dir keine Eitelkeit,
Die dich beweist.
Ich weiß, daß die Zeit
Anders heißt
Als du.
Tu mir kein Wunder zulieb.
Gib deinen Gesetzen recht,
Die von Geschlecht zu Geschlecht
Sichtbarer sind.
All who seek you, test you.
And those who find you
bind you to image and gesture.
I would rather sense you
as the earth senses you.
In my ripening
ripens
what you are.
I need from you no tricks
to prove you exist.
Time, I know,
is other
than you.
No miracles, please.
Just let your laws
become clearer
from generation to generation.
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Colorful Songs, Op. 22 (1910)
V. Bestimmung (Regulation, Ricarda Huch, 1864-1947)
Was ist in deiner Seele,
was ist in meiner Brust,
daß ich mich dir befehle,
daß du mich lieben mußt?
Vom Haus, wo ich gewohnt
und zart behütet bin,
ziehst du mich, wie der Mond
nachtwandelnd zu dir, zu dir hin.
What is in your soul,
what is in my breast,
that can teach me so
that you must love me?
From the house, where I was
tenderly protected,
you draw me, like the moon's
changing phases, to you, to you
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
Poème de Gitanjali (Poem 18 from The Offerings), Op.22 (1914)
(Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941; trans André Gide, 1869-1951)
Les nuages s'entassent sur les nuages
Il fait sombre. Amour!
Ah! pourquoi me laisses-tu dehors
attendre tout send a la porte?
Dans l'affairement du travail de midi,
je suis avec la foule;
mais parce sombre jour solitaire
je n'espere seulement que toi.
Si tu ne me montres point ta face,
si tu me laisses completement de coute,
je ne sais pas comment je traverserai ces longues,
ces pluvieuses heures
Je reste a contempler le large obscurcissement du ciel,
et mon coeur plaintif rode avec le vent sans repos,
Clouds heap upon clouds and
it darkens. Ah, love,
why dost thou let me wait outside
at the door all alone?
In the busy moments of the noontide work
I am with the crowd,
but on this dark lonely day
it is only for thee that I hope.
If thou showest me not thy face,
if thou leavest me wholly aside,
I know not how I am to pass
these long, rainy hours.
I keep gazing on the far-away gloom of the sky,
and my heart wanders wailing with the restless wind.
John Cage (1912-1992)
Living Room Music (1940)
II. Story (Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, The World Is Round, 1938)
Once upon a time the world
was round and you could go
on it around and around
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo [di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) -
Rime, 1623], Op. 22 (1940)
III. Sonneto XXX
Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume,
Che co' miei ciechi già veder non posso;
Porto co' vostri piedi un pondo addosso,
Che de' mie zoppi non è già costume.
Volo con le vostr'ale senza piume;
Col vostr'ingegno al ciel sempre son mosso;
Dal vostr'arbitrio son pallido e rosso,
Freddo al sol, caldo alle più fredde brume.
Nel voler vostro è sol la voglia mia,
I mie' pensier nel vostro cor si fanno,
Nel vostro fiato son le mie parole.
Come luna da sè sol par ch'io sia;
Chè gli occhi nostri in ciel veder non sanno
Se non quel tanto che n'accende il sole.
With your lovely eyes I see a sweet light,
That yet with my blind ones I cannot see;
With your feet I carry a weight on my back,
Which with my lame ones I cannot;
With your wings I, wingless, fly;
With your spirit I move forever heavenward;
At your wish I blush or turn pale, cold in the sunshine,
Or hot in the colest midwinter.
My will is in your will alone,
my thoughts are born in your heart,
My words are on your breath.
Alone, I am like the moon in the sky,
Which our eyes cannot see,
Save that part which the sun illumines.
John McGrew (b. 1942)
Three Haiku (2002)
I. Sierra Pine Cone
Sierra pine cone
help me remember bird calls
wood smoke and silence
II. Breath In and Out
Breath in and out
hear your pulse stretch your fingers
feel earth press your feet
III. Winter Night Bird Sings
Winter night a bird heed-
less of the sun's absence
sings into the dark
