THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 12
8pm, Saturday, December 28, 2013
Berkeley Arts Festival
2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Opus 12, No. 1
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
In the Bleak Midwinter (1905) (Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Two Ballads, Op. 12 (1907)
I. Jane Grey (Heinrich Ammann, 1864-1950)
Heather Klein, Soprano
The Opus Project Orchestra
Julius Lenzberg (1878-1956)
Operatic Rag (1914)
Golden Age Duo
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Four Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 12 (1912)
II. Scherzo
The Opus Project Orchestra
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
Serenade, Op. 12 (1920)
The Opus Project String Trio
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1871)
Three Pieces for Clarinet (1919)
I. Preferably Clarinet in A - Sempre p e molto tranquillo, quarter = 52
II. Preferably Clarinet in A - Eighth = 168
III. Preferably Clarinet in Bb - Eighth = 160
Michael Kimbell, Clarinet
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Four Songs, Op. 12 (1917)
I. The Day Is Over (Peter Rosegger, 1843-1918)
Shauna Fallihee, Soprano
Mark Alburger, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Ten Pieces, Op. 12 (1913)
IX. Humoresque Scherzo
The Opus Project Bassoon Quartet
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Murderer, Hope of Women, Op. 12 (1918)
Introduction
The Opus Project Orchestra
Op. 12, No. 2
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12 (1925)
IIa. Nocturne
Carolyn Lowenthal, Violin
The Opus Project Winds
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1926)
I. Allegro
II. Meno mosso
Video - Lilya Zilberstein, Piano
Irving Schlein (1905-1986)
Trio (1940)
II. Presto
The Opus Project Wind-Viola Trio
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
First Essay for Orchestra, Op. 12 (1938)
Finale
The Opus Project Orchestra
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Sonata Ricercare, Op. 12 (1935)
II. Mirror Fugue (A. Recte - B. Retro)
Video - Nicola Giosmin, Piano
[Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)]
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Mont Juic (1937)
III. Lament - Andante moderato, Op. 12, No. 1 (conclusion)
IV. Allegro Molto, Op. 12, No. 2 (excerpt)
Video - Steuart Bedford, English Chamber Orchestra
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
American Preludes, Op. 12 (1944)
II. Sadness
Mark Alburger, Piano
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Trumpets, Op. 12 (1973) (Georg Trakl, 1887-1914)
Video - Linda Hirst, Soprano / Oliver Knussen Ensemble
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Four Processions, Op. 12 (1978)
Procession I - Vivace
The Opus Project Orchestra
Stardust (b. 1962)
Motherequiem (2013)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Michael Stubblefield (b. 1989)
Nightfall Dreams (2011)
III. Midnight Dream
The Opus Project Piano Quintet
THE OPUS PROJECT ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute
Harry Bernstein*
Alan Kingsley
Rhina Reese
Oboe
Eva Langfeldt
Stardust
Clarinet
Michael Kimbell
Keith Leung*
Bassoon
Nat Echols*
Michael Garvey*
Lori Garvey*
Kat Walsh*
Trumpet
Michael Beveridge
Horn
Daniel Bao
Emily Sanchez
Trombone
Zack Newbegin
Scott Sterling
Soprano
Shauna Fallihee
Heather Klein
Harp
Samantha Garvey
Piano
Mark Alburger*
Harry Bernstein*
William Severson*
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Violin I
Carolyn Lowenthal*
Violin II
Corey Johnson*
Rozalia Valentine
Viola
Marion Taylor*
Kat Walsh*
Cello
Aaron Urton*
Bass
Trevor Murphy
Michael Stubblefield
* The Golden Age Duo;
Opus Project Trios,
Bassoon Quartet, and
Piano Quintet
THE OPUS PROJECT presents
OPUS 13
8pm, Saturday, January 25, 2014
Berkeley Arts Festival, 2133 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
A Multi-Media Event, with Rosemary McBride, Shauna Fallihee, Golden Age Duo, and The Opus Project Orchestra
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Symphony No. 1, Op. 13, No. 2 (1895)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Indra, Op. 13 (1903)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Peace on Earth, Op. 13 (1907)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) The Wooden Prince, Op. 13 (1914)
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) Psalmus Hungaricus, Op. 13 (1923)
Anton Webern (1883-1945) Lonely Girl, Op. 13, No. 2 (1918)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Maddalena, Op. 13 (1913)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Melancholie, Op. 13 (1919)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987 Piano Sonatina No. 1, Op. 13, No. 1 (1930)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Aphorism for Piano, Op. 13, No. 1 (1927)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Song, Op. 13, No. 1 (1940)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Piano Concerto, Op. 13, No. 1 (1938)
Jan Pusina (b. 1940) Tantara (2013)
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952) Ophelia Dances, Op. 13
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Three Places in America, Op. 13 (1978)
Gregory Trice (c.1973 - 1993) Lamda Rag (1980)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
In the Bleak Midwinter (1905) (Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894)
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as Iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
Long ago.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Two Ballads, Op. 12 (1907)
I. Jane Grey (Heinrich Ammann, 1864-1950)
Sie führten ihn durch den grauen Hof,
Daß ihm sein Spruch gescheh';
Am Fenster stand sein junges Gemahl,
Die schöne Königin Grey.
Sie bog ihr Köpfchen zum Fenster heraus,
Ihr Haar erglänzte wie Schnee;
Er hob die Fessel klirrend auf
Und grüßte sein Weib Jane Grey.
Und als man den Toten vorüber trug,
Sie stand damit sie ihn seh';
Drauf ging sie freudig denselben Gang,
Die junge Königin Grey.
Der Henker, als ihm ihr Antlitz schien,
Er weinte laut auf vor Weh,
Dann eilte nach in die Ewigkeit
Dem Gatten Königin Grey.
Viel junge Damen starben schon
Vom Hochland bis zur See,
Doch keine war schöner und keuscher noch
Als Dudley's Weib Jane Grey.
Und wenn der Wind in den Blättern spielt
Und er spielt in Blumen und Klee,
Dann flüstert's noch oft vom frühen Tod
Der jungen Königin Grey.
They led him through the grey courtyard,
To which he had been sentenced.
At the window stood his young bride,
The pretty Lady Grey.
She bowed her little head outside the window,
Her hair gleaming like snow;
He raised up the clanking chains
And saluted his wife, Jane Grey.
And as the dead were carried past,
She stood so that she could see him;
Whereupon she went gladly the same way,
The young Lady Grey.
The executioner, as her visage shone upon him,
Cried aloud in pain,
Then hastened toward eternity
The Queen Consort Grey.
Many young women go to their deaths
From the Highlands to the sea,
But none more beautiful or chaste
Than Dudley’s wife, Jane Grey.
And when the wind rustles the foliage
And plays through the flowers and clover,
One can still hear it whisper of the untimely death
Of the young Lady Grey
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Four Songs, Op. 12, No. 1 (1917)
I. The Day Is Over (Peter Rosegger, 1843 - 1918)
Der Tag ist vergangen,
Die Nacht ist schon hier;
Gute Nacht, o Maria,
Bleib ewig bei mir.
Der Tag ist vergangen,
Die Nacht kommt herzu;
Gib auch den Verstorbnen
Die ewige Ruh.
The day is over,
and night is here already;
Good night, O Maria,
stay with me forevermore.
The day is over,
and night is coming nigh;
grant also to the dead
eternal peace.
Oliver Knussen (b. 1952)
Trumpets, Op. 12 (1973) (Georg Trakl, 1887-1914)
Under the trimmed willows,
where brown children are playing
And leaves tumbling, the trumpets blow.
A quaking of cemeteries.
Banners of scarlet rattle
through a sadness of maple trees,
Riders along rye-fields, empty mills.
Or shepherds sing during the night,
and stags step delicately
Into the circle of their fire,
the grove’s sorrow immensely old,
Dancing, they loom up from one black wall;
Banners of scarlet, laughter, insanity, trumpets.
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Composition of page 25 re The Decameron - Fourth Day: II, final program preparation,
then
off
and
running
down
I-80
to Copyworld for matters programatically reproductive,
then
set-up and sound check for the festive show,
which motivates some to write evocative poetry,
and others to write supportive reviews...
Oh, and to top of the glories, yet another 70-or-above summerlike day -- 72! -- capping an amazing year (the last such on Christmas Eve and second-to-last an exact month ago), for a total of 230 such for the year!...
