THE OPUS PROJECT
presents
OPUS 88
Keys to the Universe
7pm, Saturday, April 24, 2021
Zoom Everywhere!
William Byrd (1539-1623)
Come to Me, Grief, Forever (1588)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCoEhsFEtHo
Kat Walsh, Voice and Bassoon Quartet
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Keyboard Sonata in G, K. 80 (c. 1738)
https://youtu.be/9wkCoWrD-cI
Mark Alburger, Orchestrated Realization
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Das Glück der Freundschaft (The Happiness of Friendship), Op. 88 (1803)
https://youtu.be/MfJm2cVb7KI
Megan Cullen, Soprano
Appcompanist
Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Major, Op. 110 (1821)
I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
https://youtu.be/wNOKM5HfgRI
Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
An die Musik (To Music), Op. 88, No. 4
https://youtu.be/hM6mr7zxiZ8
Megan Cullen, Soprano
Appcompanist
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Madchenlieder, Op. 88 (1865)
I. Rundgesang im Mai (May Chant)
https://youtu.be/odWv7xg5k4Y
Megan Cullen, Piano
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 (1889)
I. Allegro con brio
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto grazioso - Molto vivace
IV. Allegro ma non troppo
https://youtu.be/N_i_67tuiU0
Mark Alburger, Electronics, re-interpreted as
Genre Implosions No. 3 ("Time Cyclone"), Op. 167 (2008)
IV. Romantic
(1841) Dvorak Symphony 8
Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861-1932)
Four Pieces, Op. 88 (1890)
III. Valse Noble
https://youtu.be/1WQc0HZsg8s
Megan Cullen, Piano
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
3 Songs, Op. 88 (1942)
II. Blick vom Oberen Belvedere (View from the Upper Belvedere Palace)
https://youtu.be/JpAXoMEtJH0
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
6 Songs, Op. 88 (1917)
VI. Blommans Ode (The Flowers Destiny)
https://youtu.be/hb8SwzxF658
Megan Cullen, Soprano
Appcompanist
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Menuetto, Op. 14 (1878)
https://youtu.be/l3kTYwSNuec
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
12 Spanish Dances (1890)
V. Andaluza
https://youtu.be/JIu8oLRoGuM
Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano
Max Reger (1873-1916)
4 Songs, Op. 88 (1905)
I. Notturno
https://youtu.be/ZfxtCGsNCXg
Megan Cullen, Soprano
Appcompanist
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Piano Sonata No. 1, BB 88, Sz 80 (1926)
II. Sostenuto e pesante
Mark Alburger, Orchestration
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)
Concierto sin Orquesta, Op. 88 (1935)
I. Moderato (Exposition)
https://youtu.be/ujI-NYws2uY
Megan Cullen, Piano
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Fantasy for Horn, Op. 88 (1966)
https://youtu.be/tDNpT-KwgNE
Bob Satterford, Horn
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Makrokosmos, Volume 1 (1972)
XII. Spiral Galaxy
Mark Alburger, Electronics, re-interpreted as
Genre Implosions No. 3 ("Time Cyclone"), Op. 167 (2008)
V. 20th-Century
(1929) Crumb Makrokosmos 1 12 [Double Spiral]
Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)
Three Sonnets from the Portuguese, Op. 1 (1965)
II. I Lived with Visions
https://youtu.be/xI_kmocihBA
Alec Jeong, Tenor
Asako Tsumagari, Piano
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Antigone, Op. 88 (2000, after Sophocles and Jean Anouilh)
V. Where Is Your Pain
VII. I Can't Sleep
VIII. It's Like This
IX. Spring Is Wound
X. Come On Now, Miss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaW9Mw3X7aA&list=PL3FACBB320E94DCA7&index=6
Letitia C. Page, Antigone
Micah Epps, Creon
Michael Desnoyers, Haemon / Messenger / Guard III
Kimberly Anderman, Ismene
Meghan Dibble, Nurse / Eurydice
Maria Mikheyenko, Guard I
EL, Guard II
Antigone's Handmaid - Alix Jerinic
Dalyte Kodzis, Ismene's Handmaid / Antigone Dancer
William Loney, Oedipus / Haemon Dancer
Lisa McHenry, Page
Terence Bennan, The Puppetmaster
Adam Broner, The Fixer
Harriet March Page, Artistic Director
Mark Alburger, Music Director
Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano
Doug Michael (b. 1962)
Klusters for piano and tape
https://youtu.be/Tln8ph6G4V0
Doug Michael, Electronics
Rob Peters (b. 1969)
Suite for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 88 (1998)
II. Andante comodo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAoxM-AxsI
Michael Kimbell, Clarinet
Elizabeth Lee, Piano
Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)
Star Wars Improvisation (2021)
https://youtu.be/LV9Q62vsnqY
Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano
