September 28 - The Opus Project presents Opus 79-80


THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 79-80
Fate Knocking at the Floor
8pm, Saturday, September 28, 2019
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA


OPUS 79

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)   
     Symphony in C (1940)
          I. Allegro alla breve

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)   
     From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79 (1948)
          II. The Thoughtful Mother and Aunt ("Bye, Bye, Bye")

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
    Job: A Masque, Op. 79 (1999)
         Scene I - Introduction "What You Been Doing?"


OPUS 80

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)     
     Fantasia in C Minor ("Choral Fantasy"), Op. 80 (1808)
          Presto

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)   
     Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (1880)
          Finale

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)       
     Pelleas et Melisande, Op. 80 (1898)
          III. Sicilienne

Charles Ives (1874-1954)       
    Sonata No. 2 ("Concord") (1915)
        III. The Alcotts
                   
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)   
     Tango (1940)
         Tempo di tango

Francis Poulenc (1899 -1963)   
     Suite Francaise d'apres Claude Gervaise [1525-1583], FP 80 (1935)
          I. Bransle de Bourgogne

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)   
     The Red Pony (1948)
          Introduction

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
     John and Salome, Op. 80 (1999)
          IV. Salome's Dance
                       
          Megan Cullen, Soprano and Piano
          The Opus Chamber Project Orchestra


THE OPUS PROJECT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Mark Alburger                          Music Director and Conductor

Clarinet
Peter Brown

Bassoon
Tim Machajewski

Horn
Bob Satterford

Soprano / Piano
Megan Cullen

Tenor / Percussion
Mark Alburger

Violin
Kat Walsh

Viola
Carol Earley

Bass
Josh Calderon


THE OPUS PROJECT presents

OPUS 81-82
Imaginary Soundscapes
8pm, Saturday, October 19, 2019
Diablo Valley College Music Building
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)                Tragic Overture, Op. 81 (1880)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)                Parade (1917)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)                 A Set for Theatre Orchestra (1915)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)                Boléro (1928)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)            Circus Polka (1942)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)            La Création du Monde, Op. 81 (1923)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)            Clarinet Concerto (1948)
John Cage (1912-1992)                 Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)                The Beatitudes, Op. 81 (1999)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)                Symphony No. 5, Op. 82 (1919)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)                 Sonatine bureaucratique (1917)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)             Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand (1930)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)            Danses Concertantes (1942)
John Cage (1912-1992)                Music of Changes (1951)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)                Symphony No. 4 ("Sequence"), Op. 82 (1999)

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Another superb show, and, before that, a fine 3rd rehearsal for the


Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera  


Fresh Voices XIX presentation (8pm, Saturday, November 23, Community Music Center, SF, CA),


on the beautific


176th day of summer,


high down 2 to 75


(locally and in Pleasant Hill -- Fairfield, 78; Martinez, 71... again the lowest since May 27's 73)

-- finishing

Julius Caesar, Op. 329
    Act II
        Scene III.  A street near the Capitol. / Scene IV.  Before the house of Brutus.

[4 pages total]

also beginning

Ives Orchestrations, Op. 331 (September 28, 2019)

with

    I. Sonata No. 2 ("Concord") (1920): III. The Alcotts