THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 21
8pm, Saturday, September 27, 2014
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 (1800)
I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Op. 21 (1826)
Exposition
The Opus Project Orchestra
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)
String Trio, Op. 21 (1907)
I. Allegro giocoso e semplice
The Opus Project String Trio
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Impromptu, Op. 21 (1919)
Modere
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Der Kreidekreis (The Chalk Circle), Op. 21 (1932)
Introduction
Mark Alburger, Piano / Video
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
The Wasps (1909)
III: March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
The Opus Project Orchestra
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Twelve Romances, Op. 21 (1902)
V. Lilacs (Yekaterina Beketova, 1855–1892)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Piano
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
A Somerset Rhapsody, Op 21 (1907)
Moderato
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Pierrot Lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot), Op. 21 (1912)
(Albert Giraud, b. Emile Albert Kayenbergh, 1860–1929,
trans. Otto Erich Hartleben, 1864–1905)
VII. Der Kranke Monde (The Sick Moon)
Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962)
Two Pieces, Op. 21 (1917)
I. Solitudine - Theme
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Voice & Piano
Alma Mahler (1879-1964)
Four Songs (1915)
I. Light in the Night
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 21 (1921)
II. Adagio / Poco agitato - Tempo I
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / John Yoon, Violin / Mark Alburger, Piano
George Enescu (1881-1955)
Symphony No. 3 in C Major, for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 21 (1918)
I. Moderato, un poco mosso (Introduction)
Video
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 21 (1911)
II. Allegretto tranquillo (grazioso) TEMA
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Symphony, Op. 21 (1928)
I. Ruhig schreitend (Calmly walking / Allegro moderato)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Chout
(The Tale of the Buffoon Who Outwits 7 Other Buffoons), Op. 21 (1915)
I. The Buffoon and his Bufoonette (Allegretto scherzando)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sancta Susanna, Op. 21 (1921) (August Stramm, 1874-1915)
Conclusion
Mark Alburger, Piano / Jill Wagner, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)
Orpheus und Eurydike, Op. 21 (1926)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Improvisation for Violin and Piano, Op. 21 (1934)
Paul Creston (1906-1985)
Marimba Concertino, Op. 21 (1941)
I. Vigoroso
Video
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Six Japanese Romances, Op. 21 (1932)
II. Before Suicide (Otzuno Odzi, trans. A. Brandt,
Japonskaja lirika [Japanese Lyrics, 1928])
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Capricorn Concerto, Op. 21 (1944)
III. [Allegro con brio] a tempo / Andante un poco mosso / Tempo I
John Cage (1912-1992)
Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March No. 1, 1940)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Diversions for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 21 (1940)
Variation V - Chant
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Pastorale, Op. 21 (1943)
Introduction
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Michael Cox, Trumpet
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Pampeana No. 2, Op. 21 (1950)
Lento e rubato
Elizabeth Morrison, Cello / Mark Alburger, Piano
Pierre Boulez (b. 1925)
Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer) (1955)
(René Char 1907-1988, Le Marteau sans Maître, 1934)
III. L'artisanat furieux (Furious Craftsmanship) - Part I
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Alan Kingsley, Flute
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Four Nocturnes (Night Music II, 1964)
NOTTURNO IV. con un sentimento di nostalgia / piu animato
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Fables, Op. 21 (1965)
VII. Moderato
Elizabeth Morrison, Cello / Mark Alburger, Piano
Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Music for 18 Musicians (1976)
I-II
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Higglety Pigglety Pop!, Op. 21 (1985)
II. Trauermusik
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Missa "The a Deux", Op. 21 (1980)
I. Kyrie (Egeria, b. c. AD 351)
Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
Scherzo Round No. 122,694 (2014)
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Northrend Tides (2012)
(after Warcraft III: World of Chaos, 2002)
Jill Wagoner, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Piccolo / Flute / Alto Flute
Harry Bernstein
Alan Kingsley
Oboe
Philip Freihofner
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski
Trumpet / Cornetto
Ron Cohen
Michael Cox
Horn
Jan Pusina
Trombone
Scott Sterling
Soprano
Jill Wagoner
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Bass-Baritone
Ron Cohen
Electric Guitar
Michael Stubblefield
Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Naswari
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Violin I
John Yoon*
Violin II
Lawrence Huang*
Viola
Harry Bernstein*
Cello
Elizabeth Morrison
Contrabass
John McGrew
Electric Bass
Michael Stubblefield
*The Opus Project String Trio
THE OPUS PROJECT presents OPUS 22: All the Dead Voices
8pm, Saturday, October 25, 2014,
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 22 (1868)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony No. 1: III. Huntsman's Funeral (1888)
Jean Sibelius (1864-1957) The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22, No. 2 (1895)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Song without Words, Op 22, No. 1 (1906)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Orchestral Song, Op. 22, No. 2 (1916)
George Enescu (1881-1955) String Quartet No. 1, Op. 22, No. 1 (1920)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Quartet, Op. 22 (1930)
Jerzy Gablenz (1888-1937) Legend of Turbacz, Op 22 (1925)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 (1917)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Poème de Gitanjali, Op.22 (1914)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 (1922)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Piano Concerto (1926)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Viola Sonata in D, Op. 22 (1945)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Symphony No. 3 ("Requiem") (1933)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) The Age of Gold, Op. 22 (1930)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Cello Concerto, Op. 22 (1945)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Mystic Flute, Op. 22 (1937)
John Cage (1912-1992) Living Room Music (1940)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 (1940)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22 (1952)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1949)
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013) 17 Variations for Woodwind Quintet, Op. 22 (1947)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Flourish with Fireworks, Op. 22
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Duo Sonata No. 1 ("Hyphenated"), Op. 22 (1981)
Scott Sterling (b. 1970) Quartet ("Dick and Jane's 1st Samhein") (2000)
Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991) Williams Fantasy (2014)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Twelve Romances, Op. 21 (1902)
V. Lilacs (Yekaterina Beketova, 1855–1892)
По утру, на заре,
По росистой траве,
Я пойду свежим утром дышать;
И в душистую тень,
Где теснится сирень,
Я пойду свое счастье искать...
В жизни счастье одно
Мне найти суждено,
И то счастье в сирени живёт;
На зелёных ветвях,
На душистых кистях
Моё бедное счастье цветёт...
In the morning, at dawn,
over the moist grass,
I go to breathe the crisp daybreak;
and in the sweet shade,
where the lilac grows,
I go to seek happiness...
Life, only one joy
was destined for discovery,
and that pleasure resides in the lilacs;
in the green branches,
in the fragrant bouquets,
my poor contentment blossoms...
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Pierrot Lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot), Op. 21 (1912)
(Albert Giraud, b. Emile Albert Kayenbergh, 1860–1929,
trans. Otto Erich Hartleben, 1864–1905)
VII. Der Kranke Monde (The Sick Moon)
Du nächtig todeskranker Mond
Dort auf des Himmels schwarzem Pfühl,
Dein Blick, so fiebernd übergroß,
Bannt mich wie fremde Melodie.
An unstillbarem Liebesleid
Stirbst du, an Sehnsucht, tief erstickt,
Du nächtig todeskranker Mond
Dort auf des Himmels schwarzem Pfühl.
Den Liebsten, der im Sinnenrausch
Gedankenlos zur Liebsten schleicht,
Belustigt deiner Strahlen Spiel -
Dein bleiches, qualgebornes Blut,
Du nächtig todeskranker Mond.
You ailing, death-awaiting moo
High upon heaven's dusky couch,
Your glance, so feverish over-large,
Lures me like strange enchanting song.
With unrequited pain of love
You die, your loving, deep concealed
You ailing death-awaiting moon
High upon heaven's dusky couch
The lover, stirred by sharp desire
Who reckless seeks for love's embrace,
Exaults in your bright play of light -
Your pallid, pain-begotten flood,
You ailing death-awaiting moon.
Alma Mahler (1879-1964)
Four Songs (1915)
I. Light in the Night (Otto Julius Bierbaum, 1865-1910)
Ringsum dunkle Nacht, hüllt in Schwarz mich ein,
zage flimmert gelb fern her ein Stern!
Ist mir wie ein Trost, eine Stimme still,
die dein Herz aufruft, das verzagen will.
Kleines gelbes Licht, bist mir wie der Stern
überm Hause einst Jesu Christ, des Herrn
und da löscht es aus. Und die Nacht wird schwer!
Schlafe Herz. Schlafe Herz. Du hörst keine Stimme mehr.
Dark night all around, enveloping me in black,
Timidly a star flickers yellow from afar!
It's to me like a comfort, a quiet voice,
Which calls on your heart that wants to give up.
Little yellow light, you are like a star to me
Above the house of Jesus Christ the Lord, once,
And there it goes out! And the night turns heavy!
Sleep, my heart! You hear no voice any more!
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sancta Susanna, Op. 21 (1921) (August Stramm, 1874-1915)
Conclusion
Nein! Beichte! Satana! No! Confess! Satan!
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Six Japanese Romances, Op. 21 (1932)
II. Before Suicide
(Otzuno Odzi, trans. A. Brandt, Japonskaja lirika
[Japanese Lyrics, 1928, after Hans Bethge, 1876-1946,
Japanischer Frühling / Nachdichtungen Japanischer Lyrik
{Japanese Spring / Adapted Japanese Lyrics}, 1907-1928])
SУныло сыплются листы. Густой туман
пруд застилает. Гуси дикие кричат испуганно
на озере, опять кричат.
Сны мрачные витают над моей главой,
на сердце тяжесть. через год, когда раздастся
снова крик гусей, я не услышу их.
The leaves are falling discouraged,
a thick fog covers the pond. The wild geese cry frightened
on the lake, cry yet.
Of dreams dark on my head and a weight on my heart.
A year will pass before the cry of the geese resounds again,
but I will not hear.
Pierre Boulez (b. 1926)
Le Marteau sans Maitre (The Masterless Hammer) (1955)
(René Char 1907-1988, Le Marteau sans Maître, 1934)
III. L'artisanat furieux (Furious Craftsmanship) - Part I
La roulotte rouge au bord du clou
Et cadavre dans le panier
The red caravan on the edge of the nail
And corpse in the basket
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Missa "The a Deux", Op. 21 (1980)
I. Kyrie (Egeria, b. c. AD 351)
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison
Lord have mercy
Christ have mercy
Lord have mercy
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Northrend Tides (2012)
(after Warcraft III: World of Chaos, 2002)
Sunrise no life
Only the master
The eyes of the North and the frozen breeze
Northrend tides Icecrown throne
Ruled by the frozen throne
Plagued by unholy death
Screams of the fallen souls
Filled with eternal death
Silence
No peace
Pain now rising
Tides of Northrend
Frozen the seas
Frost in the winds
Sunrise only death
Above the frozen hills
Below the crystal lake
The lord of North and the frozen crown
Frozen the tides
Clouds fill the skies
No sounds of light
Rise unholy night
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Another fabulous,
miraculous show --
right from the getting there, down 80
and
680,
copying
programs
and
fascillitating arrivals. Delightful time afterwards, too, including composing page 4 for Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1903 Gustave Charpentier on this 196th day of summer, back up to to 81 (140th seasonal reading re 80-or-beyond)
