January 30 - The Opus Project presents Opus 86

THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 86 ONLINE!
Totally...!
7pm, Saturday, January 30, 2021
Zoom Meeting Everywhere
                

Anonymous (fl. 1486?) / Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)
     Fantasia on Een vrolic wesen (December 28, 2020)

               https://youtu.be/6mNO3I-sMbk

               Edith Kimbell, Tenor Viol
               Michael Kimbell, Bass Viol



Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)   
     Mass in C Major, Op. 86 (1807)
          I. Kyrie

               Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics, reinterpreted as
                    Mass in C Minus, Op. 345 (2021)
                         I. Kyrie

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)       
     6 Songs, Op. 86 (1847)
          I. Es lauschte das Laub so dunkelgrün (The Dark Green Leaves Eavesdropped)

               https://youtu.be/6bjILOs89y8

               Megan Cullen, Soprano

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)       
     Prelude in A-Flat Major (B. 86)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWB8P6UFaBI

               Dominic Pang, Piano



Charles Dancla (1817-1907)       
     Le Melodiste, Op. 86 (1858)
          I. Norma (Belini), Semiramide (Rossini), and L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDJ5xuLvzc&t=40s

               Kristen Kline, Violin
               Megan Cullen, Piano
                        
Johannes Brahms (1883-1897)       
     6 Lieder, Op. 86 (1879)
          IV. Über die Heide (Across the Heath)

               https://youtu.be/Au_2DcuwQb8

               Megan Cullen, Soprano
               Jean-Paul Bjorlin, Piano


Robert Fuchs (1847-1927)        
     Viola Sonata, Op. 86 (1899)
           I. Allegro moderato, ma passionato

               https://youtu.be/pFeTb658xl8

                Kat Walsh, Viola
                Ben Malkevitch, Piano

Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)       
     Promenade en Mer (Sea Trip), Op. 86 (c. 1883)

               https://youtu.be/OHrXu4N3L6E

Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)       
     Contes des Fées (Fairy Tales), Op. 86 (1925)
          V. Ronde de villageois (Village Round Dance)

               https://youtu.be/UTQX60MY4Tw

               Megan Cullen, Piano

Christian Sinding (1856-1941)       
     7 Klavierstucke, Op. 86 (1908)
          II. Wellen (Waves)

               https://youtu.be/sWSUg33fG3w

          IV. Humoreske

               https://youtu.be/kW4Ve3HBoxw

               Hussein Al-Nasrawi and Megan Cullen, Piano


Claude Debussy (1862-1918)       
     Fêtes Galantes, CD / FL 86
          I. En Sourdine (Muted)

               https://youtu.be/E11bcQFLRSg

               Megan Cullen, Soprano
               Appcompanist

     Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L 86 (1894)

               Mark Alburger, reinterpreted as
                    The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Op. 116 (2004)
                         VII. Into the Street

                           

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucA8BEXSMVM

                              Suzanna Mizell, Soprano
                           
                              Goat Hall Productions

                       

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)       
     6 Songs, Op. 86 (1957)
          IV. Och finns dat en tanke (And Is There a Thought?)

               https://youtu.be/Ukb8dOhK8Pw

               Megan Cullen, Voice and Piano                

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)       
     3 Danses, Op. 86 (1935)
          II. Bocane

               https://youtu.be/hpSDjaOvhXg

          III. Danse de corde

               https://youtu.be/TT3ASGBYjU0

               Megan Cullen and Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)       
     Babel (1944)

                Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics, reinterpreted as
                      Babel, Op. 47 (1992)
                           I. And the Whole Earth




Ernst Toch (1887-1964)           
     Reflections, Op. 86 (1962)
          I. Quarter about 100-104

               https://youtu.be/NImDnqvrHU4

          III. Allegretto grazioso

               https://youtu.be/u8tCZcatbpI

          IV. Pensive, andante (Quarter about 72)

               Megan Cullen, Hussein Al-Nasrawi, and Mark Alburger, Piano
                           
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)       
     Fantasy for Solo Bassoon, Op. 86 (1966)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voFcy0L4syQ

               Kat Walsh, Bassoon

Allan Crossman (b. 1942)       
     Alibye (1991)
                        
               Maria Sokolova, Mezzo-Soprano
               Allan Crossman, Piano


Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)       
     Celestial Encounters (1986)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LZhtmY4vxg

                Sally Christian, Piano

    Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)   
          Vespers (1610)
               XIII. Magnificat

    J.S. Bach (1685-1750)           
          Magnificat (1735)
               I. Chorus
    
    Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)       
          Magnificat (1959)
                 II. Magnificat

                     Mark Alburger, Electronics, reinterpreted as
                          Genre Implosions No. 3 ("Time Cyclone"), Op. 167 (2008)
                               II. Baroque... - Monteverdi / J.S. Bach / Hovhaness Magnificat
                           
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
     Magnificat (2000), Op. 86
          I. Magnificat anima mea

               Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics

Eliza O'Malley (b. 1969)       
     Weave (2020)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blYNBAbexTc&list=PLKauPZXbvIggdMeXtDuld5ncbcuWyayby&index=3

               Eliza O'Malley, Soprano Trio



The Opus Project Performers

Mark Alburger     Music Director
Megan Cullen      Associate Music Director

Bassoon
Kat Walsh

Electronics
Mark Alburger

Soprano
Megan Cullen
Eliza O'Malley
Suzanna Mizell

Mezzo-Soprano
Maria Sokolova

Tenor
Mark Alburger

Piano
Mark Alburger
Hussein Al-Nasrawi
Jean-Paul Bjorlin
Sally Christian
Allan Crossman
Megan Cullen
Ben Malkevitch
Dominic Pang

Violin
Kristen Kline

Viola
Kat Walsh

Tenor Viol
Edith Kimbell
              
Bass Viol
Michael Kimbell

January 27 - Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Welcome to the second playlist
(accessed by clicking the link directly below)
and info for Quiz 1 (just under the ensuing Big Bang image)...
Notes and Quiz due as attached pdfs or jpgs -- 6pm, Friday, January 29, to
mus21stc@gmail.com

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2. Score to Societies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ClqwG5-Os&list=PLtV-SdP8TZccH-GVYmpkVoLDp1spdPTLt

Details of the 6 linked videos..

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2a Score to Strauss)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Score)
https://youtu.be/o0ClqwG5-Os

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2b. In Passing)
Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars
https://youtu.be/3m8XNUqYyZM

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2c. Down to Earth, Sympathetically)
Gusta Holst - The Planets; Sympathetic Vibration
https://youtu.be/ood-CY-naU0

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2d. Elementary, My Deer)
Elemental and Biotic Music by Richard Wagner, Alan Hovhaness, Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Churchill (Bambi), Ferde Grofe, Philip Glass (Koyaanisqatsi), Claude Debussy, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Crumb, Olivier Messiaen, and some critters
https://youtu.be/k9Cv38-y2fk

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2e. From Sound to Silence)
Edgar Varese - Poeme Electronique; John Cage - 4' 33"
https://youtu.be/rs44cevOT84

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (2f. In and Out of Africa)
Music of Tanzania, France, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Niger, and China
https://youtu.be/528vAqoVQVc

***

A Big Bang for Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation!

Info for Quiz (Worksheet) 1, which will be group emailed you soon!
Feel free to write on blank copy sent, or make up your own equivalent version.
Top of Quiz should be handwritten, Descriptions of Compositions may be typed, if preferred...

C Major Scale (Treble Clef on a Staff in Whole Notes) (Wikipedia Links for your reference)

(Letter Names and Numbers above)

(Solfege Syllables below)
 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major


Musical Keyboard Letter Names

(1/2 step = adjacent notes on a keyboard -- white-to-black; black-to-white;
    or white-to-white, if no intervening black note)

(# = Sharp raises a white note 1/2 step, b = Flat lowers a white note 1/2 step)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard

 

Five Basic Ways of Producing Sound
Basic Name (Ethnomusicological Names) - (A Few Typical Examples)

Wind (Aerophone) - (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet)
Solid-Body (Idiophone) - (Woodblock, Cymbal)
Drum (Membranophone) - (Timpani)
String (Chordophone) - (Harp, Piano, Violin)
Electricity (Electrophone) - (Synthesizer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument_classification#Mahillon_and_Hornbostel-Sachs_systems



Listening (on Quiz this is the bottom section designated as "The following")...
 
Please listen to the below two selections on YouTube.
On Quiz you should identify each by Composer - Title: Movement
and describe briefly re:

Rhythm
Pitch
Dynamics
Timbre (Tone-Color)
Form

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: I. Introduction
                             (Thus Spake Zarathustra: I. Sunrise)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)


Gustav Holst - The Planets: I. Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGGlL1wexQk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets

January 25 - Universal Joys!

Welcome to Diablo Valley College Music Appreciation (Spring 2021), with

Dr. Mark Alburger!

Syllabus is at
https://markalburger2021.blogspot.com/2021/01/january-22-syllabus.html

We're all online, so the equivalent of two-class-meetings-a-week are playlists on YouTube, posted each Monday and Wednesday.  Each playlist is 6 c. 15-minute original linked videos... roughly one-and-a-half hours per presentation...

The first Lecture Playlist, for today, January 25, is below the next picture...

Each Monday and Wednesday will feature a new Playlist, accessed from this current blog-website

markalburger2021.blogspot.com

dated as above.

The titles of the daily blog entries are rather arbitrary / capricious...

Your class participation will be to take notes on each Playlist (c. 300-500 words) -- handwritten or typed -- as you listen, and send off by 6pm Fridays (in this case, January 29) to mus21stc@gmail.com or my school email (both go to the same inbox) as attached pdfs or jpgs...

Blank pdf copies of Quizzes (Worksheets, really) will be group emailed to you every Wednesday, with info for same posted on this website just below the corresponding daily Lecture Playlist, and same method of transmission / due date as above.  While top of each Quiz should be hand-written (re Music Notation and Basic Information), the bottom (Identification and Descriptions of Featured Composers and Pieces) may be typed... And you can always create your own versions of the Quizzes, rather than using the emailed copies...

Looking forward to our time together over the next 16 weeks!

Mark

Dr. Mark Alburger
Diablo Valley College Music
(707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com

***

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1. Outer Space to Inner Sanctums)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqnDrtQT7Y8&list=PLtV-SdP8TZcfiiEcHl_yxhUkGSuJ1cG4N

The individual videos detailed below...

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1a. An Outer Space Introduction)
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Cinema)
https://youtu.be/dqnDrtQT7Y8

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1b. The Big Bang and Beyond)
The Audio Afterglow of the Big Bang; Vibration / Sound / Rhythm / Pitch / Dynamics / Timbre
https://youtu.be/Pi0njIAhxZ8
(N.B. Video blocked in Austria and Germany [!],
due to inclusion of South African waves from The Endless Summer[!])

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1c. Distance and Direction)
Intervals / Scales; Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Performance)
https://youtu.be/lE--gc-m8Rw

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1d. Notation and Nuance)
Notation of Pitch and Rhythm; Senegal - Greetings from Podor
https://youtu.be/ZSUSPsfQQWc

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1e. Speed to Solfege)
Tempo / Three Instrumental Groups; Rodgers - The Sound of Music: Do Re Mi
https://youtu.be/cOBD8qrcMWE

Mark Alburger - "Prehistoric" Music (1f. Solfege to Score)
Rodgers - The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi; Guido d'Arezzo - Hymn to St. John; Solfege, Accidentals;
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Introduction (in Score)
https://youtu.be/MAtZayqIUZg

January 3 - Work-In-Progress II

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
presents
SOLOS AND ENSEMBLES
Spring Ahead Fallback
7pm, Saturday, May 8, 2021
Zoom Everywhere!


Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)       
     Chaîne brisée, Op. 87 (1936)
          II. Barcarolle des sept vierges

          https://youtu.be/Xvn1MS3TDeU

          Megan Cullen, Piano

Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)       
     ABSAGE (Cancellation) (2020)    

          https://youtu.be/RGKdAwRBlOU

          Michael Kimbell, Clarinet
          Elizabeth Lee, Piano
          Farley Pearce, Viol Trio

Harry Bernstein (b. 1948)           
     Quartetto Amabile (2014)
          I.  Allegro Marziale
          II.  Moderato

          Telegraph String Quartet

John Beeman (b. 1954)           
     Tall Trees (2016)

          https://youtu.be/6wphv5cFhys

          Bruce Salvisberg, Flute
          Michael Kimbell, Clarinet
          Michael Garvey, Bassoon

Martha Stoddard (b. 1955)       
     Earth Songs 2021 (2021)

          Oakland Civic Orchestra Members        

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
     Macbeth, Op. 328 (2019, after William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)
          Act II, Scene 3 - Court of Macbeth's castle

     Julius Caesar, Op. 329 (2019, after William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)
          Act I, Scene 2 - A public place

     No Exit, Op. 330 (2019, after Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980)
          IV. Don't Look Up

              Mark Alburger, Electronics

Erling Wold (b. 1958)           
     Verschwinde, Mond!

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrxsQKsS9A

    The Voyeur's Gratitude

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0_bSX5HBfA

          Nikola Printz, Soprano
          Erling Wold, Piano
        
Michael Cooke (1970)           
     Light & Water (2021)

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDRmcqZIwD4

          Michael Cooke, 2 or 3 Bassoons
          Lisa Cooke, Musique Concrete / Video


Hussein Al-Nasrawi (1991)       
     Toscana Romanza (2019)

          https://youtu.be/h4REzAJhT7M

          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

January 2 - Work-in-Progress

THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 89
Brave New Order
7pm, Saturday, June 12, 2021
Zoom Everywhere!

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)    
     Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Major, Op. 110 (1821)
          II. Allegro molto

          https://youtu.be/X04bMWGxYCs

          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)       
     Winterreise (Winter Journey), Op. 89 (1828)
          XXI. Das Wirtshaus (The Inn)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)       
     6 Songs, Op. 89 (1850)
          IV. Abschied vom Walde (Farewell to the Forest)   

          Megan Cullen, Soprano   

Charles Dancla (1817-1907)       
     6 Varied Airs, Op. 89 (1858)
          VI. Theme de Mercadente

          Kat Walsh, Violin
               
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)   
     Tanz-Momente, Op. 89 (1912)
          II. Valse triste

          Megan Cullen, Piano

Christian Sinding (1856-1941)       
     3 Pieces, Op. 89 (1908)
          II. Old Melody (Alte Weise)

          Michael Kimbell, Viola da Gamba
          Elizabeth Lee, Piano

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)       
     Morire?, SC 89 (1917)   

          Megan Cullen, Soprano

Erik Satie (1866-1925)           
     Premiere Minuet (1920)

          Mark Alburger, Orchestration

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)       
     Suite sans esprit de suite, Op. 89 (1937)
          IV. Thrène
                       
          Megan Cullen, Piano

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)   
     Oboe Concerto (1944)
          I. Allegro moderato

          Mark Alburger, transformed as
               Tuba Concerto, Op. 121 (2004)
                    I. Allegro moderato


Charles Ives (1874-1958)       
     Holidays Symphony (1912)
          II. Decoration Day

          Mark Alburger, as reinterpreted in
               Genre Implosions, Op.  167
                               
                    V. 20th-Century
                         (1874) Ives Decoration


Bela Bartok (1881-1945)       
     Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71 (1918)
          IV. Andante
          VIII. Allegretto
          XIII. Poco più vivo
          XIV. Allegro
          XV. Allegro

          https://youtu.be/df52hX3BPkQ

          Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano


Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)       
     Mujeres de Sevilla, Op. 89 (1939)
          III. La macarena de garbo
                       
          Megan Cullen, Piano



Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)       
     Scherzo a la Russe (1948)

           Mark Alburger, Sound File College, as part of
                The Well-Tempered World, Op. 214 (2013)
                      XV. G Major
                            (Beginnings of J.S. Bach Brandenburg 3-4,
                           
                            Beethoven Piano Concerto 4, Chopin Prelude G,
                            Mahler Symphony 4, Ravel Piano Concerto
                            Stravinsky Scherzo, Poulenc Gloria,
                            Shostakovich Fugue G)    



Marco Enrico Bossi (1891-1925)   
     Romanza, Op. 89 (1894)

          Kat Walsh, Viola
          Megan Cullen, Piano



George Barboteu (1924-2006)       
     Cinq Pieces Poetiques pour cor en fa (1974)
          I.  Andante cantabile
          II.  Mouvement tres libre
          III. Mouvement tres large

                       

          Bob Satterford, Horn           

Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)       
       Fantasy Sonata (1998)
            II. Nebulae

            Elizabeth Lee, Piano

Mark Alburger (b. 1957)       
      The Little Prince, Op. 89 (2000, after Antoine de St. Exupery)
            I. Moonlight
    
            Heather Graham, The Little Prince
            David Saslav, Antoine de St. Exupery
            Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano
            Harriet March Page, Artistic Director
            Mark Alburger, Music Director
                                  
     Pandemische Absage des Konzerts, Op. 349 (2021)

           Mark Albuger, Electronics



Taylor Swift (b. 1989)           
     1989 (2014)
          Blank Space
          Bad Blood
          Shake It Off

                        Kat Walsh, Bassoon Quartet

January 1 - Brighter on the Horizon

Celebrating anticipation of better times ahead, from the uncertain past, most recently at https://markalburger2020.blogspot.com/ to this new

though-far-from-certain-but-hopeful stroke-of-midnight future,

with Harriet and a Zooming Cliff,

later joined (after an interval of unaccustomed date-writing, rest, and

an appropriately-overriddden Great Criminal veto of needed govermental funding) by

George, Bette, and Sorrel.

Out for a New-Year's-Day

outing

 (always seems auspicious to have decent weather on the 1st of the year,

despite this being in

 California's

rainy season),

north up

Pleasants Valley,

Mix

Canyon

into the

Vaca Mountains,

then

back

downslope

to

walk

from

Goat Parking

(via

attempts towards an updated

portrait photo)

to

The Notch, in view of

Creek Ranch,

reversing

to

head

south over Burnt Hills and

Rivera,

northwest on I-80,

loop-de-looping

Lassen,

on the first day of spring,

high down 9 to 53,

beginning composition of

Mass in C Minus, Op. 345 (January 1, 2021),

over President in Waiting (2020),

looking towards the horizon of a hopefully

brighter future...