December 26 - Holiday Opus


Rehearsal for The Opus Project presents Opus 24 (8pm, Saturday, December 27, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA), including...

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
     Es ist ein Ros entsprungen [Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming] (1609)


Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
     The Damnation of Faust, Op. 24 (1854)
          Act I:  III. Hungarian March

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
     Eugene Onegin, Op 24 (1878)
          Act II:  I. Waltz


Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
     Elegie, Op. 24 (1883)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
     Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24 (1890)
          Finale

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
     Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks (1914)
         Prelude

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
     Renard (1916) 
          Marche (Entrance of the Actors)

Anton Webern (1883-1945)
     Concerto, Op. 24 (1934)
         II. Sehr langsam

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
     The Gambler, Op. 24 (1917)
          Prelude
     
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
     Les Choéphores, Op. 24 (1915)
          I. Furious Funeral

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
     The Gunshot, Op. 24 (1929)
          I.  Con moto
     
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
     Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 (1947)
          Conclusion

Mick Jagger (b. 1943)
     (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965)



Scott Sterling (b. 1970)
     Endless Rolling Round  


Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
     Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 (1921)
           III. Ruhig und einfach (Quiet and easy)


Stardust (b. 1962)
     Quartet No. 1 for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Horn (2014)  
          I / II / III

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Christmas --


rehearsal


day


voted


by


the


players!...


While Boxing Day is a holiday in Canada; here,


it's a symphony of Renaissance / Romantic / Modern Airs and Dances...


with composition re page 6 Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of Three) Women: XIX. Pandora somewhere in the mix