Op. 98 NOAH'S FLOOD ("Noah, Noah"): A Mystery Play (August 25, 2001) I. Wicked Prelude II. Exhortation (Noah, Noah) III. Dire Fears (Day of Wrath) IV. The Building of the Ark V. Ca(r)[t]a(va)l[ogue] of the Animals VI. The Comedy (Mrs. Noah) VII. The Flood / Te Deum (The Little Death Raindrops Keep Falling Mainly in Mesopotamia) VIII. The Birds IX. The Rainbow / Te Deum / Postlude
Recording:
BEGINNING SOMEWHERE New Music, 2008
Noah's Flood
I. Wicked Prelude
II. Exhortation (Noah, Noah) / III. Dire Fears (Day of Wrath)
Op. 97 QUARTET FOR THE BEGINNING OF TIME: ADAM AND EVE AND CAIN AND ABEL (August 17, 2001) Opera-Oratorio for Voices and Instruments I. Liturgy of Earth 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 carnival catalogue VI. Blues Dance of Fury VII. Fathering Hope VIII. Lounging in Mortality (Baby Boom Boogie-Woogie Begats)
Performances:
March 5-7, 12-14, 2010 San Francisco Cabaret Opera Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA
Op. 96 THE WIND GOD (2001) (after Harriet March Page) (August 8, 2001) I. I got my wish II. I've a crick III. Ocean is my friend IV. Big ship V. Sitting goose VI. It's so true VII. But you see (Builder's blue tango...) VIII. I loved him IX. All my money X. We're six days out XI. My son sleeps XII. My little finger (Blues) XIII. We almost mutaneed (March) XIV. In a lull XV. Noah XVI. All there is XVII. A dozen dolphins XVIII. We hit land
Performances:
October 14, 2001 Harriet March Page, Soprano Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA
March 2, 2002 Harriet March Page, Soprano National Association of Composers, Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
June 2, 2002 Harriet March Page, Soprano Missing Persons Concert, Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA
June 21, 2002 Harriet March Page, Soprano NOW Music Festival, Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA
July 19-21, 2002 Harriet March Page, Soprano Fresh Voices III Festival, Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA
Recording:
THE WIND GOD (New Music, 2008) I. I got my wish
II. I've a crick III. Ocean is my friend IV. Big ship V. Sitting goose VI. It's so true VII. But you see (Builder's blue tango...) VIII. I loved him IX. All my money X. We're six days out XI. My son sleeps XII. My little finger (Blues) XIII. We almost mutaneed (March) XIV. In a lull XV. Noah XVI. All there is XVII. A dozen dolphins XVIII. We hit land
Mark Alburger (b. 1957, Upper Darby, PA) is an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He is Music Director of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music (P.O. Box 2842 San Anselmo, CA 94960) and New Music, Music Critic for Commuter Times, and Instructor in Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson, Joan Panetti, and James Freeman at Swarthmore College (B.A.); Jules Langert at Dominican University (M.A.); Christopher Yavelow at Claremont University (Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger has composed 215 major works over the past 39 years, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue is being issued on discs from New Music. Alburger's multiple blogs include: markalburger.blogspot.com,
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