SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
presents
Bright Ideas
7pm, Saturday, November 13, 2021
Zoom Everywhere!
Michael Kimbell (b. 1946)
Into the Stars, a musical voyage into the Carina Nebula (2015)
(Toccata and Fugue on B-A-C-H for Solo Harp)
https://youtu.be/jSZlNjbz_jY
Katrina Szederkényi, Harp
John Bilotta (b. 1948)
Dust and Shadows (2019)
For Violin and Piano
https://youtu.be/5vw_K0TVUlE
Jenny Estrin, Violin
Sequoia, Piano
John Beeman (b. 1954)
Luminosity (2011)
III. Day's End
IV. Phosphorescence
https://youtu.be/E2aK4ZNA4Nk
The Ives Collective
Susan Freier, Violin
Stephen Harrison, Cello
Lori Lack, Piano
Alexis Alrich (1955)
Muse of Fire (2021)
https://www.alexisalrichcomposer.com/videos
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Job: A Masque, Op. 79 (1999)
I. What You Been Doing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPHQGytjPRE&list=PL376F718839ABC13E&index=33
VIII. Is There Someone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j71SNCNE-n0&list=PL376F718839ABC13E&index=40
San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions
Satan / Zophar the Naamanthite - Crystal Philippi
Job - Marilyn Pratt
God / Eliphaz the Temanite - NM
Elihu - Heather Klein
Bildad the Shuhite - Sarita Cannon
Job's Wife - Kate Bautch
Pierrot Ensemble Conductor - Martha Stoddard
Vocal and Stage Director - Mark Alburger
Artistic Director - Harriet March Page
Backyard Theology (2021)
Video Sound-File Stream-of-Consciousness Collage
Gregorian Chant - Credo I (I Believe)
Thomas of Celano (1185-1265) - Dies Irae (Day of Wrath, 1215): Recordare (Remember)
Josquin des Pres (1450-1521) - El Grillo (The Cricket, 1500): Give the Cricket a Drink
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - La Traviata (1851): Act I Bridisi (Drinking Song)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Gloria (1960): I. Gloria
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) - Quartet for the End of Time (1991):
VII. Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus (Praise to the Eternity of Jesus)
Miles Davis (1928-1991) - Kind of Blue (1959): I. So What
George Crumb (b. 1929) - Black Angels (1970): VII. God Music
Alan Jaffe (1935-1987) / Preservation Hall Jazz Band (1960) - That's It (2013)
John Lennon (1940-1980) - Isolation (1970), performed by Sean Lennon Ono (b. 1975)
George Lucas (b. 1944) - Star Wars (1977): Impressive, Most Impressive
Warren Zevon (1947-2003) - Excitable Boy (1978): IV. Werewolves of London
Stephen Schwartz (b. 1948) - Godspell (1971): Act II Finale (Crucifixion)
Patti Smith (b. 1948) - Horses (1975): I. Gloria, Part I - In Excelsis Deo
Tom Petty (1950-2017) - Full Moon Fever (1989): I. Free Fallin'
Malcolm Young (1953-2017) / AC/DC (1973) - Dirty Deeds Done Cheap (1978):
IV. Problem Child
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) - Job: A Masque, Op. 79 (1999): I. What You Been Doing?
Lin-Manuel Miranda (b. 1980) - Hamilton (2015): Right Hand Man
Alicia Keys (b. 1981) - Alicia (2020): XV. Good Job
Father John Misty (b. 1981) - I Love You, Honey Bear (2015): X. Holy Shit
Avril Lavigne (b. 1984) - Goodbye Lullaby (2011): II. What the Hell
Mark Alburger, Electronics
The Pennsylvania-Wisconsin Union, Discussion
Davide Verotta (b. 1958)
String Quartet No.6 ("Straight Arrow") (2020)
https://youtu.be/gwcGwwiI6w4
The Friction Quartet
Kevin Rogers and Otis Harriel, Violins
Rachyl Martinez, Viola
Doug Machiz, Cello
Sheli Nan (b. 1960)
The Golden Ratio (2021)
https://youtu.be/7EzZk0_eGUk
Texas Saxophone Quartet
Michael Cooke (b. 1970)
Iberian Impressions (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4v7VGO7Ch4
Michael Cooke, Flute
Sunset Shapes (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNobGeb-53g
Michael Cooke - Soprano Sax, Bass Clarinet, Chinese Meditation Chimes
Dana Kaufman (b. 1989)
Diary of a Madman (2012 / 2021)
Scene 2
https://youtu.be/janEnVgg7D4
Lowbrow Opera Collective
Megan Cullen, Soprano
Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)
Iraq Forever (2018)
https://youtu.be/0lcu4WKYZ40
Hussein Al-Nasrawi, Piano
