THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 15: Riots of Spring
8pm, Saturday, March 29, 2014,
Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with Alan Kingsley, Michael Garvey, Jill Wagoner,
Harriet March Page, Moses Lei, and The Opus Project Wind-String Quintet and Orchestra
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Homeward, Op. 15, No. 5 (1886)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Book of the Hanging Gardens, Op. 15, No. 1 (1909)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) My Love, Op. 15, No. 1 (1916)
George Enescu (1881-1955) A Gift for Ann, Op. 15, No. 1 (1908)
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Hary Janos: Battle and Defeat, Op. 15, No. 4 (1926)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) The Rite of Spring: Dances (1913)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Symphony No. 1, Op. 15 (1907)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Spiritual Song, Op. 15, No. 5 (1922)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Ballade, Op. 15 (1912)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Trio Sonata, Op.15 (1914)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) In a Night... Dreams & Experiences, Op. 15 (1919)
Hanns Jelinek (1901-1969) Two-Voice Invention, Op. 15, No. 1 (1949)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) The Nose: Prologue, Op. 15 (1928)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) A Stopwatch & an Ordnance Map, Op. 15 (1940)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Violin Concerto, Op. 15, No. 1 (1939)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Creole Dance, Op.15, No. 1 (1946)
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010) Toccata, Op. 15 (1971)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 1 (1975)
Jan Pusina (b. 1940) Trombone Loops, Op. 15 (1973) (w/ R. Heglin)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Cantata for Oboe and String Trio, Op. 15 (1977)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Book (Prehistoric Atlas), Op. 15 (1979)
Stardust (b. 1962) Romance: I. Caprice (2014)
Feona Lee Jones (b. 1985) Patriotic Music (2014)
Tickets -- $10 - $20 -- available at the door.
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C Blues Scale
C Eb F (F#) G Bb C
C Chords
C Augmented C Major C Minor C Diminished
G# G G Gb
E E Eb Eb
C C C C
Typical Twelve-Bar Blues Pattern
I
1 2 3 4
IV I
5 6 7 8
V IV I
9 10 11 12
Listening
[8895] Darius Milhaud - La Creation du Monde: II. Fugato
(The Creation of the World)
[8895] Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
[Songs of Buren)
[8898' George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
[8900] Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring: II. Allegro
[8901] Harry Partch - U.S. Highball
[8906] Dmitri Shostakovich - The Nose: I. Prologue
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A
gray
day
heading
off to
Diablo Valley College (.1 inch rain, for a total of 8.7 since July 1, 2013), but looking up with the Theory classes,
the first taking in all of the Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf melodies re Added (Non-Harmonic / -Chord) Tones, and
Dictation / Board Harmony on Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera: Ballad of Mac the Knife.
Following this, the 11:00 class takes a spin with I-vi-IV-VI re Dictation on Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms: II, Sight-Singing of same + John Lennon's Happiness Is a Warm Gun, and
Board Harmony re J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 14 ("Wachet Auf"): VII. Chorale.
A
quick
homeward
trip,
more
Opus
15
preparation
and
not
quite
enough
for
the
evening
class,
heading
back
to
bestow
as
above,
initially
with
selections
from
Ralph
Vaughan
Williams
through Alban Berg. Also compose first strain of VII. Scherzo - "Rain" and continue editing The Decameron - Fourth Day: VI. Andreuola Loves Gabriotto (page 2).
