Sunday, August 1, 1999

Job: A Masque, Op. 79


Op. 79 JOB: A MASQUE 
     (August 1, 1999) for Voices and Orchestra 
     [or Pierrot Ensemble] 
SCENE I - INTRODUCTION - "What you been doing?" 
     (Duet - God and Satan)
SCENE II - DIRGE - "We were plowing" 
     (Quartet - 4 Messengers / Solo - Job)
SCENE III - DOUBLE - "Where have you been?" 
     (Duet - God and Satan) 
SCENE IV - CANON - "Curse God and die" 
     (Duet - Job and Job's Wife) 
SCENE V - MOTET - "Place a curse" 
     (Aria - Job) 
SCENE VI - DIALOGUE I - "Man is born to suffer" 
     (Sextet I) 
SCENE VII - DIALOGUE II - "Empty words" 
     (Sextet II) 
SCENE VIII - DIALOGUE III - "Is there someone" 
     (Sextet III) 
SCENE IX - MONOLOGUE - "I am still young" 
     (Aria - Elihu) 
SCENE X - WHIRLWIND - "Who are you" 
     (Arioso - Quintet - Arioso) 
SCENE XI - EPILOGUE - "Lord blessed the last part" 


Performances:
June 17, 19, 2010
Fresh Voices X
God / Bildad the Shuhite - Nanette McGuinness 
Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Messenger IV - Crystal Philippi 
Job - Marilyn Pratt 
Job's Wife / Messenger III - Kate Bautch
Eliphaz the Temanite / Messenger II - Sarita Cannon 
Elihu / Messenger I - Heather Klein
Director - Mark Alburger
Music Director - Martha Stoddard
Goat Hall Productions
Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley, CA

November 13, 2010
God / Bildad the Shuhite - Harriet March Page
Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Messenger IV - Maria Mikheyenko
Job - Marilyn Pratt 
Job's Wife / Messenger III - Kate Bautch
Eliphaz the Temanite / Messenger II -  Suzanna Mizell
Elihu / Messenger I - Heather Klein
Director - Mark Alburger
Music Director - Martha Stoddard
Goat Hall Productions Pierrot Ensemble
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

December 1, 2017
Goat Hall 30th Anniversary Celebration
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor
Frank Johnson, Piano
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

September 28, 2019
The Opus Project presents 79-80: Fate Knocking at the Floor
The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA


Program Note:

Mark Alburger's JOB: A MASQUE is born to suffer in comparison with its troping sources, including Ralph Vaughan Williams's Job: A Masque for Dancing (which serves as overall framework) with sparks flying upwards into Alban Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra and Wozzeck, George Crumb's Makrokosmos (Volume III: Music for a Summer Evening), Alburger's Animal Farm, and Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, plus related trials from Philip Glass and 60's rock.


Images / Music / Video:

Op. 79 JOB: A MASQUE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPHQGytjPRE&list=PL376F718839ABC13E&index=33

SCENE I - INTRODUCTION - "What you been doing?" 

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




 SCENE II - DIRGE - "We were plowing" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqbpsaZT3FI


SCENE III - DOUBLE - "Where have you been?" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHyNZMtxt58



SCENE IV - CANON - "Curse God and die" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q1hRmBoPCM



SCENE V - MOTET - "Place a curse" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0xapIg5Zxg


SCENE VI - DIALOGUE I - "Man is born to suffer" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGPyzM5Xm0




SCENE VII - DIALOGUE II - "Empty words"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f1gMSypHvo&t=93s

 
VIII. DIALOGUE III - "Is There Someone"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j71SNCNE-n0 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsTToBw5M3c




SCENE IX - MONOLOGUE - "I am still young" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPVNYVFMP7A&t=2s



SCENE X - WHIRLWIND - "Who are you" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693ETZirCIM



SCENE XI - EPILOGUE - "Lord blessed the last part"