October 25 - The Opus Project presents Opus 22


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

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A tremendous show -- including the most string players (11), pieces (38), and duration (2'30") ever.  OK, probably should reduce those last two parameters in future...


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Costa's


Cybercopy and


DVC on the 224th day of summer, high plummeting 9 to 71 (a degree cooler in Pleasant Hill -- 70) with .28 precip (necessary again to go back to May 5th temp [70] and rainfall [.69] as last precedents, although Opus 21 weekend had related conditions as well).  Page 5 re Portraits of ___(Some Multiple of 3) Women: VIII. Woman in the Window upon late return, plus repertory work for Opus 23.