The Opus Project presents
Opus 20
Earthshaking!
8pm, Saturday, August 30
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive
Pleasant Hill, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with Alan Kingsley, Jill Wagoner, Maria Reeves, Elizabeth Morrison, and The Opus Project Trios, Quartets, and Orchestra
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915) Piano Quartet, Op. 20 (1906)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) The Captive, Op. 20, No. 4 (1899)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Don Juan, Op. 20 (1899)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Malinconia, Op. 20 (1900)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) The Bachelor of Salamanca, Op. 20 (1919)
Hugo Alfven (1872-1970) A Legend of the Skerries, Op. 20 (1921)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Spring, Op. 20 (1902)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Sweet and Low, Op 20a, No. 1 (1905)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Foliage of the Heart, Op. 20 (1911)
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962) Valse Pathetique, Op. 20, No. 2 (1917)
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1964) String Quartet No. 2 (1905)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) In the Dark Moon, Op. 20, No. 1 (1909)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) Improvisation on a Hungarian Song, Op. 20 (1920)
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959) Atonal Music, Op. 20 (1922)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) String Trio, Op. 20, No. 1 (1927)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Scythian Suite, Op. 20 (1915)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Abandonment, Op. 20, No. 1 (1914)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Das Nusch-Nuschi, Op. 20 (1920)
Aaron Copland (1900-1920) Music for the Theatre: IV. Burlesque (1925)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Prelude, Op. 20, No. 1 (1934)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No. 3, Op. 20 (1929)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Excursions for Piano, Op. 20 (1944)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Nocturne for Harp, Op. 20 (1937)
John Cage (1912-1992) Bacchanale (1940)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 (1940)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20 (1948)
Madeleine Dring (1923-1977) Trio for Flute, Oboe, and Piano (1968)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Night Music I: Notturno II (1963)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Where the Wild Things Are, Op. 20 (1983)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Embedded Inventions, Op. 20 (1979)
Scott Stirling (b. 1970) The Reluctant Trapezist (2011)
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989) Schlußstück: Conclusion (2014)
***
Design a poster for the weekend's concert,
between
the
morning and evening class endeavors
(the
last
likely
mid-day
commute
of
the
semester),
the latter participants proceeding through
introductory material and looking toward matters Ancient, as below...
F Lydian Mode
F G A B C D E F
Do Re Mi Fi Sol La Ti Do
F Major Scale
F G A Bb C D E F
Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do
Pattern of Whole and Half Steps in a Major Scale
W W H W W W H
Four Textures of Music
Monophonic - One Line of Music, Strictly Performed
Heterophonic - One Line of Music, Freely Performed
Polyphonic - More than One Line of Music, Lines of Equal Importance
Homophonic - More than One Line of Muic, One Line is More Important
Listening
[3500] Iraq - The Passion of 1,001 Nights
[5659] Egypt - The Trumpet of Tutankhamun
[6700] Nigeria (Yoruba) - Talking Drum
[6970] Turkey (Asia Minor) - Epitaph of Seikilos
[7001] Indonesia (Bali) - Gamelan Gong Kebyar
***
Somewhere in there, compose page 3 of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1897 Klimt, on the 165th day of summer, high 8 degrees back up to 90 (112th / 54th of 80 / 90+). Late, send out to Opus Project folks parts for
Aaron Copland (1900-1920) Music for the Theatre: IV. Burlesque (1925)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Symphony No. 3, Op. 20 (1929)
