Works (1974-Present)

WORKS (1974-present)
Mark Alburger
(New Music, San Anselmo, CA)

Op. 1 Psalm 6, Op 1 (1974) for oboe(s) (and high-hat cymbals)
Op. 2 Suite ("Sol[ar]") (1975) for oboe, piano, and percussion
Op. 3 Eccclesiastes, or The Preacher, (1975) for voice(s) and orchestra
Op. 4 Poems on Crane (1975) for mixed chorus (after Stephen Crane)
Op. 5 The Lord's Prayer (1975) for soloists, choir, and keyboard
Op. 6 Variations and Theme (1976) for keyboard
Op. 7 Interrupted Interludes (1977) for keyboard
Op. 8 The Twelve Fingers (1977) for keyboard
Op. 9 Psalm (92) for the Sabbath Day (1977) for voice and keyboard
Op. 10 Nocturnes for Insomniacs (1978) for violin and keyboard
Op. 11 Portraits of Three Players (1978) for flute and keyboard
Op. 12 Four Processions (1978) for string quintet
Op. 13 Three Places in America (For Four) (1978) for quartet
Op. 14 Seasons' Eves (1978) for double-reed (or harp) duet
Op. 15 Book (Prehistoric Atlas) (1979) for keyboard
Op. 16 Some Stuff (1979) for mixed quintet
Op. 17 Two and a Half Pieces (1979) for flute, 2 trombones, and tuba
Op. 18 Yellow River Concerto II (1979) for oboe and violin (percussion)
Op. 19 Academic Endeavors (1970) for keyboard and voice
Op. 20 Embedded Inventions (1979) for keyboard
Op. 21 Missa "The a deux" (1980) for voices and instruments
Op. 22 Duo Sonata No. 1 ("Hyphenated") (1981)
Op. 23 Sequence Music (1982) for a (piano) trio
Op. 24 Orpheus Cycle (1982) for voice and keyboard (or instruments)
Op. 25 Stolen Students (1983) for keyboard
Op. 26 Sinfonietta (1984) for orchestra
Op. 27 Aerial Requiem (1985) for voices and instruments
Op. 28 Mary Variations (1985) for keyboard
Op. 29 Street Songs (1985) for voice and keyboard (or instruments)
Op. 30 Merton Songs (1986) for voice nd keyboard
Op. 31 Duo Sonata No. 2 (Wasatch") (1986) for viola and percussion
Op. 32 Crystal Series (1987) for oboe(s) and keyboard
Op. 33 San Timoteo Can[yon]tata (1988) for voices and instruments
Op. 34 Songs for Rebecca (1988) for voice and keyboard
Op. 35 Missa California (1988) for voices and instruments
Op. 36 Lot in Life (1988) for voices and instruments (Genesis 18-19)
Op. 38 At a Photo Shop (1989) for voice and keyboard (or instruments)
Op. 38 Spectral Preludes (1989) for keyboard or ensemble
Op. 39 Big Beat (1990) for orchestra
Op. 40 Trumpet Concerto ("Macho Concertino")
Op. 41 Mice Suite No. 1 (1991) for orchestra
Op. 42 Westminster Tropes (1991) for voices and instruments
Op. 43 Deploration Passacaglias (1992) for keyboard
Op. 44 Helena Suite (1992) for voice(s) and keyboard(s or instruments)
Op. 45 Mice and Men (1992) for voices and orchestra
Op 46 Iliad Songs (1992) for voices and orchestra
Op. 47 Babel (1992) for voices and orchestra
Op. 48 San Fernando Hub (1993) for voices and instruments
Op. 49 Business As Usual (1993) for instrument(s and voice[s])
Op. 40 L.A. Stories (1994) for voices and instruments
Op. 51 San Rafael News (1995) for voice(s) and instrument(s)
Op. 52 Abraham and Isaac (1996) for voices and orchestra
Op. 53 Mice Suite No. 2 (1996) for voice(s) and instruments
Op. 54 Israel in Trouble (1997) for voices and instruments
Op. 55 The Passion According to St. Matthew (1997) for ensemble
Op. 56 For My Brother For My Brother (1997) for solo and keyboard
Op. 57 Amazing Joseph (1997) for voices and instruments
Op. 58 The Ten Commandments (1997) for voices and instruments
Op. 59 Mice Suite No. 3 (1998) for two voices and ensemble
Op. 60 Twelve Preludes and Fugues ("Topical") (1998) for keyboard
Op. 61 Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 ("It wasn't classical...")
Op. 62 Symphony No. 2 ("Tamalpais") (1998)
Op. 63 Moses and Aaron (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 64 Joshua Fought the Battle (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 65 Samson and Delilah (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 66 Babe Ruth (Rhapsodi Israeli) (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 67 Saul! Saul! (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 68 Mice Suites (1998) for voices and instruments
Op. 69 King David (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 70 Solomon (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 71 Elijah Rock (1998) for voices and orchestra
Op. 72 The Nativity According to St. Matthew (1998) for ensemble
Op. 73 The Opera of Daniel (1999) for voices and orchestra
Op. 74 Buddha's Little Instruction Book (1999) for trio
Op. 75 Symphony No. 3 ("Recycled") for orchestra
Op. 76 Animal Farm (1999) for orchestra
Op. 77 Henry Miller in Brooklyn (1999) for 3 singers and 9 instruments
Op. 78 Esther Xerxes (1999) for voices and orchestra
Op. 79 Job: A Masque (1999) for voices and instruments
Op. 80 John and Salome (1999) for voices and instruments
Op. 81 The Beatitudes (Blessed Are) (1999) for voices and keyboard
Op. 82 Symphony No. 4 ("Sequence") (1999) for orchestra
Op. 83 Quadruple Concerto ("Metal") (1999) for instruments
Op. 84 Flute Concerto ("Mythological") (2000)
Op. 85 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (2000) for ensemble
Op. 86 Magnificat (2000) for voices and instruments
Op. 87 Violin Concerto ("Ticklish") (2000)
Op. 88 Antigone (2000) for voices and orchestra
Op. 89 The Little Prince (2000) for voices and Pierrot ensemble
Op. 90 Diocletian (2000) for voices and orchestra
Op. 91 Uncle Vanya (2000) for voices and orchestra
Op. 92 Trombone Concerto ("Flute Players") (2000)
Op. 93 The Creation (2000) for voices and instruments
Op. 94 The Bald Soprano (2001) for voices and orchestra
Op. 95 Animal Opera: An Orwellian Comedy (2001) for ensemble
Op. 96 The Wind God (2001) for voice and keyboard (or orchestra)
Op. 97 Quartet for the Beginning of Time: Adam & Eve & Cain & Abel
Op. 98 Noah's Flood ("Noah, Noah"): A Mystery Play (2001)
Op. 99 Symphony No. 5 ("An American's Reply") (2001) for orchestra
Op. 100 Symphony No. 6 ("Apathetic") (2001) for orchestra
Op. 101 Symphony No. 7 ("Tragicomic") (2001) for orchestra
Op. 102 Symphony No. 8 ("Unending") (2001) for orchestra
Op. 103 Flying Out the Mouth for voice(s) and instrument(s)
Op. 104 Cats, Dogs, and Divas (2001) for voice(s) and instrument(s)
Op. 105 Gloria (2002) for voices and keyboard (or instruments)
Op. 106 The Nativity According to St. Luke (2002) for ensemble
Op. 107 Out on the Porch (2002) for voice(s) and instrument(s)
Op. 108 Blake House (2002) for voice(s) and keyboard
Op. 109 Six Characters in Search of an Author (2003) for ensemble
Op. 110 Camino Real (2003) for voices and orchestra (or keyboard)
Op. 111 The Playboy of the Western World (2003) for ensemble
Op. 112 On the Road (2004) for voices and orchestra (or keyboard)
Op. 113 Endgame (2004) for four voices and orchestra (or keyboard)
Op. 114 Horn Concerto ("Sherlock") (2004) for horn and orchestra
Op. 115 Clarinet Concerto ("Matrimonial") (2004)
Op. 116 The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Opera (2004)
Op. 117 Symphony No. 9 ("From the West") (2004) for orchestra
Op. 118 Oboe Concerto ("Wanderer") (2004)
Op. 119 Viola Concerto ("Felicitations") (2004)
Op. 120 Bassoon Concerto ("Grandmother") (2004)
Op. 121 Tuba Concerto ("Pasteurized") (2004)
Op. 122 Piano Concerto ("Child's Play") (2004)
Op. 123 Harp Concerto ("Ballerina") (2004)
Op. 124 Percussion Concerto ("Dictator") (2004)
Op. 125 Cello Concerto ("Roasted") (2004)
Op. 126 Bass Concerto ("Conrad") (2004)
Op. 127 Twelve Pieces for Orchestra (2005)
Op. 128 Waiting for Godot (2005) for voices and instrument(s)
Op. 129 Ecclesiastes Tropes (2005) for voice(s) and keyboard
Op. 130 Diabolic Variations (2005) for keyboard
Op. 131 Concerto for Orchestra (2005) for orchestra
Op. 132 Pied Piper Suite: Concertino (2005) for orchestra
Op. 133 Rossetti Songs (2006) for voice and orchestra
Op. 134 Grande Suite ("Sol[ar]") (2006) for orchestra
Op. 135 Big Beat Remix (2006) for MIDI orchestra
Op. 136 Sinfonietta-Suite ("En Attendant Godot") (2006) for orchestra
Op. 137 From "Poems of My Heart" (2006) for voice and instrument(s)
Op. 138 New Street Songs (2006) for voice and orchestra
Op. 139 New Crystal Series (2006) for oboe(s) and keyboard
Op. 140 One Page of a Swarthmore College Literary Magazine (2006)
Op. 141 Kipling Songs (2006) for voice and keyboard
Op. 142 The Ring of Harriet (2006) for voices and orchestra
Op. 143 Textbook (2007) for orchestra
Op. 144 Grating Prelude (2007) for orchestra
Op. 145 St. Paul Suite (2007) for voices and instruments
Op. 146 Trout Fishing in America (2007) for voices and instruments
Op. 147 The Musical Orbital (2007) for mixed media
Op. 148 Variations on Americana (2007) for orchestra
Op. 149 The Desert (2007) for a hopeless array
Op. 150 Halfway Mark (2007) for voices and instruments
Op. 151 A Walk Through California (2007) for found sounds
Op. 152 The Countess Cathleen (2007) for voices and orchestra
Op. 153 History Phases (2007) for sound files
Op. 154 White Horse Suite (2008) for voice(s) and instrument(s)
Op. 155 Flying Mixes (2008) for sound files
Op. 156 Vocal Sonatina No. 1 ("Spitzer") (2008)
Op. 157 Vocal Sonatina No. 2 ("Vatsyayana") (2008)
Op. 158 Vocal Sonatina No. 3 ("Conforte") (2008)
Op. 159 Vocal Sonatina No. 4 ("Khayyam") (2008)
Op. 160 Vocal Sonatina No. 5 ("Angier") (2008)
Op. 161 Genre Implosions No. 1 ("Mass Confusion") (2008) for sound
Op. 162 Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues ("Standards") (2008)
Op. 163 Songs of Degrees (2008) for voices and instrument(s)
Op. 164 Alphabetic Homage[inizations] (2008) for sound files
Op. 165 Genre Implosions No. 2 ("Ages East") for sound files
Op. 166 Civic Disobediance (2008) for voice and instrument(s)
Op. 167 Genre Implosions No. 3 ("Time Cyclone") for sound files
Op. 168 The Bible (2008) for voices and instruments
Op. 169 Sex and the Bible: The Opera (2009) for sextets
Op. 170 Raga Improvisations (2009) for instrument(s)
Op. 171 Sex and the Orchestra (2009)
Op. 172 Psalms (2009) for voice(s) and instrument(s)
Op. 173 Sex and Delilah (2009) for voices and instrument(s)
Op. 174 King David Suite (2009) for (voices and) and orchestra

Sex and Delilah, Op. 173

Op. 173 SEX AND DELILAH (March 20, 2009)
For Voices and Instrument(s)
I. Death
II. Defeat
III. Delilah
IV. Dagon

SEX AND DELILAH [a.k.a. SAMSON AND DELILAH (THE FRANK JUDGES): Part 2 Samson] is troped on Camille Saint-Saens's biblical epic, with strong arm tactics drawn from post-minimalism, George Crumb, Aaron Copland's Rodeo, Richard Wagner's Die Walkure, Igor Stravinsky, and BBC sound files.


I. Death





II. Defeat




III. Delilah





IV. Dagon




[I. Death: "On way he heard lion roaring"
Brown, Mikheyenko, Alburger]

Performances:

May 22-23, 2009
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Maria Mikheyenko - Girl at Timnah / Prostitute / Delilah
Mark Alburger - Samson
Kristin Brown - Angel / Manoah / Lion / Philistines / Israelites
Nanette McGuiness - Manoah's Wife / Honey Bees / Philistines / Israelites
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA



I. Death: "I have a riddle for you"
[Brown, Mikheyenko, Alburger, McGuiness]



[II. Defeat: "So they burned the woman to death"
Brown, Mikheyenko, McGuiness]



III. Delilah: "Samson went to see a prostitute in Gaza"

Video:

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAMP-3hyUYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfGRR79dmc&feature=related

Sex and the Bible: The Opera, Op. 169

Op. 169 SEX AND THE BIBLE: THE OPERA
(Part I) (January 1, 2009)
For Voices and Instruments



Act I - GENESIS

1. THE CREATION



III. Let the waters be gathered




VI. Let us make man




2. QUARTET FOR THE BEGINNING OF TIME:
ADAM AND EVE AND CAIN AND ABEL


II. Vocalise for the Disobedience at the Beginning of Time



III. Abyss of Separation




IV. Ragtime Intermezzo of Expulsion



V. Lounging in an Eternity of Strife
VI. Blues Dance of Fury
VII. Fathering Hope
VIII. Lounging in Mortality (Baby Boom Boogie-Woogie Begats)

3. NOAH'S FLOOD ("Noah, Noah"): A MYSTERY PLAY
I. Wicked Prelude
VII. The Flood / Te Deum (The Little Death Raindrops Keep Falling Mainly in Mesopotamia)
IX. Rainbow / Te Deum / Postlude

4. BABEL
I. And the whole earth
II. Behold, they are one
III. And the Lord scattered them

5. ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
II. The Separation
IV. The Covenant / V. The Slave Girl
VI. The Circumcision
[LOT IN LIFE]
VII. The Plea (Lottery)
VIII. The Destruction (Lotsa Luck / Parking Lot's Wife / Lotherio)
IX. The Deception
X. The Birth / The Banishment
XI. The Sacrifice / XII. The Burial / XIII. The Wife / XIV. The Death

6. ISRAEL IN TROUBLE
I. If It Is Thus
III. Eyes Dim
IV. Fly Away
V. Well, Well, Well, Well, Well
VI. Shouldn't Work for Nothing
VII. How To Depart
VIII. On His Way
IX. One Day Dinah
X. If It Is Thus

7. AMAZING JOSEPH
I. I Had a Dream
II. Meanwhile, Judah
III. Now the Ishmaelites (Potiphar's Wife)
V. Pharaoh Had a Dream
VII. Take My Youngest Son
VIII. I Am Joseph
IX. Now I Can Die


ACT II - EXODUS-JUDGES

8. MOSES AND AARON
EXODUS / LEVITICUS (13 Letters and a Postlude)
I. Recitative - "And There Arose"
II. Barcarolle - "Woman Conceived"
III. Battle - "And He Spied"
V. Duet - "What Is In Your Hand?"
VI. Trio - "Let My People"
VII. Nine-Plague Twelve-Tone Passacaglia-Quodlibet - "River Is Blood"
IX. Storm/Tempest - "At Midnight" (The Tenth Plague)
X. Caccia/Tableau - "And the People Fled" (The Parting of the Red Sea)
XI. Duet and Chorus - "Sing to the Lord / Bitter Water" (Songs of Moses and Miriam)
XII. Quartet - "Thou Shalt" (The Ten Commandments)
XIII. Bacchanale - "This Gold Image" (The Golden Calf)
XVI. Postlude - "Be Gone"
NUMBERS / DEUTERONOMY (7 Letters)
XVII. Ritournello - "Would That We Had Died"
XVIII. Interlude - "How Long" (Wander in the Wilderness)
XIX. Procession - "Let Us Pass" (Balaam's Ass)
XX. Chorus - "There Shall a Star"

9. SAMSON AND DELILAH (THE FRANK JUDGES)
Scene 1 - Start
I. Digits (Adonibezek)
III. Disemblance (Ehud and Eglon)
IV. Deborah
VI. Downfall (Abimelech)
VII. Daughter (Jeptha)
Scene 2 - Samson
VIII. Death (The Lion)
IX. Defeat (The Ass's Jaw)
X. Delilah
XI. Dagon
Scene 3 - Stop
XIII. Disunity (The Levite's Concubine)

24 Preludes and Fugues ("Standards"), Op. 162

Op. 162 24 PRELUDES AND FUGUES ("Standards")
(April 4, 2008)
I. C Major
II. C Minor
III. Db Major
IV. C# Minor
V. D Major
VI. D Minor
VII. Eb Major
VIII. Eb Minor
IX. E Major
X. E Minor
XI. F Major
XII. F Minor
XIII. F# Major
XIV. F# Minor
XV. G Major
XVI. G Minor
XVII. Ab Major
XVIII. G# Minor
XIX. A Major
XX. A Minor
XXI. Bb Major
XXII. Bb Minor
XXIII. B Major
XXIV. B Minor

Recording:

24 PRELUDES AND FUGUES
(New Music, 2008)

I. C Major
II. C Minor
III. Db Major
IV. C# Minor
V. D Major
VI. D Minor
VII. Eb Major
VIII. Eb Minor
IX. E Major


X. E Minor ("Autumn Leaves")

a. Prelude



b. Fugue



XI. F Major
XII. F Minor
XIII. F# Major
XIV. F# Minor
XV. G Major
XVI. G Minor
XVII. Ab Major
XVIII. G# Minor
XIX. A Major
XX. A Minor
XXI. Bb Major
XXII. Bb Minor
XXIII. B Major
XXIV. B Minor

Genre Implosions, Op. 161

Op. 161 GENRE IMPLOSIONS (March 28, 2008)
Superimpositions for sound files
NO. 1 ("Mass Confusion")
I. Introit
II. Kyrie
III. Gloria
IV. Gradual
V. Alleluia
VI. Credo
VII. Offertorium
VIII. Sanctus
IX. Agnus Dei



Recording:

GENRE IMPLOSIONS
(New Music, 2008)

No. 1 ("Mass Confusion")

I. Introit

II. Kyrie

III. Gloria

IV. Gradual


V. Alleluia



Progressive superimpositions of two Gregorian chants, plus music of Notker Balbulus ("The Stammerer"), the School of Chartres, Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin, the Ars Antiqua motet tradition, and the School of Worcester.

VI. Credo

VII. Offertorium

VIII. Sanctus

IX. Agnus Dei

Vocal Sonatina No. 2 ("Vatsyayana"), Op. 157

Op. 157 VOCAL SONATINA NO. 2 ("Vatsyayana")
(after the Kama Sutra)
(March 21, 2008)
I. Adagio ("Introductory")
II. Allegretto ("About a Wife")
III. Allegro vivace ("On the Means of Attracting Others to Oneself")

Recording:

WHITE HORSE SALE
(New Music, 2008)

Vocal Sonatina No. 2 ("Vatsyayana")

I. Introductory

Lord of Beings
men and women
Dharma
Artha
Kama

Kama
Sutra

Vatsyayana
composed his work
small volume
as an abstract
of the whole


II. About a Wife

Virtuous women
Who have affection
Revere the Household Gods

Should avoid company
Beggars and mendicants
Unchaste and
Roguish and
Soothsayers
And witches

Wives whether they be
Noble born or remarried
Aquire the Dharma Artha Kama
And generally keep their husbands happy


III. On the Means of Attracting Others to One's Self




(Instrumental Version)




(Vocal Version)

When a person fails to obtain the
object of their desires
They should have recourse to
other ways of attraction

Good looks good qualities youth and liberality
are the chief natural means
But in their absence a
man or a woman must have

An ointment made of the tabernamontana
coronaria, costus speciosus, arabicus
If a fine powder is made of the plants and ap-
plied to the wick of a lamp and burned it has the ef-
fect of making people look

very lovely
Oil of the hogweed the echites putescuns the
sarina plant and the yellow amranth
if applied to the body
has the same effect

By eating powder of nef'mbrium speciosum you
will be come lovely in eyes of others
The above things with the
tabernamontana coronaria

If the bone of a peacock or hyena
be covered with gold
tied on right hand it makes
us lovely in others eyes In the same way
bead of jujube makes result described above

Vocal Sonatina No. 1 ("Spitzer"), Op. 156

Op. 156 VOCAL SONATINA NO. 1 ("Spitzer")
(after Ashley Alexandra Dupre, David Peterson, et al)
(March 13, 2008)
I. Allegro moderato ("Difficult")
II. Andante ("I Am not a Monster")
III. Allegro ("Only the Lobbyists")

Recording:

WHITE HORSE SALE
(New Music)

Vocal Sonatina No. 1 ("Spitzer")
(Instrumental version)

I. Allegro moderato ("Difficult")



(Instrumental Version)




(Vocal Version)

Difficult. He's
Difficult. He likes do
Do a lot of things that like you might not think are safe and so he's
Difficult.

I have a way of dealing with that I'll be like
Listen dude.
You know you want the sex.
You know what I mean.

You know I mean it's like whatever. I'm
Here for a purpose. I know what my purpose is.
I am not a moron.
You know what I mean.

II. Andante ("I Am Not a Monster")



I am not a monster. Don't
Want to be.
It's a very difficult time for me.
It is very complicated.

He walked out on me.

III. Allegro ("Only the Lobbyists")



[The new governor, when asked if he had ever been with a prostitute said:]

Only the lobbyists come here to see me.

I feel like the student getting ready to take the final exam.
Only they hadn't attended any classes.