Thursday, April 1, 1993

Business As Usual, Op. 49


Op. 49 BUSINESS AS USUAL (April 1, 1993; New Music, 1993) 


Nine Crises for Brass Quintet (and Voice) 
Nine Crises-Madrigals for Voices and Instruments 
Nine Crises for Woodwind Quintet (and Voice) 
Nine Crises-Madrigals for Voice and String Quartet 
(1994; New Music, 1994) 
Nine Crises-Madrigals for Voice and Piano on Found Texts 
IA. Torculus Man 
IB. Six Friday Nights 
IC. The Second Death 
IIA. Caucasian Sketchbook 
IIB. Business As Usual 
IIC. Information Wanted 
IIIA. You'll Drive It Out
IIIB. Buttonwillow 
IIIC. Shane O'Donlan 


Score:





Performances:

May 1, 1993 
Mark Alburger, Voice and Sequencer 
Albrecht Auditorium, 
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 

March 17, 1995 
Mark Alburger, Voice and Sequencer 
National Association of Composers, Palo Alto, CA 

July 4, 1996 
Mark Alburger and Beatrice Kustin, Voices
NEW MUSIC String Quartet 
Music Next Millennium, San Francisco, CA

November 4, 1996 
Mark Alburger, Voice
NEW MUSIC String Quartet
NOW Music Festival
Angelico Auditorium
Dominican College, San Rafael, CA 

November 17, 1996
Mark Alburger, Voice
NEW MUSIC String Quartet
Opus 415 Marathon 
ODC Performance Gallery, San Francisco, CA

October 1997
Mark Alburger, Voice
Onyx Quartet
20th Century Forum
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA 


November 19, 1997
Mark Alburger, Voice / Tuolumne Brass
Venue 9, San Francisco, CA

February 26, 1998 
Mark Alburger, Voice
Tuolumne Brass 
Venue 9, San Francisco, CA 

March 7, 1998 
Mark Alburger, Voice
Tuolumne Brass 
American Composers Forum
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA 

March 14, 1998
Tuolumne Brass
Flying Whale Studio
Nevada City, CA 

May 3, 1998
Pacific Sticks
Star Classics Recital Hall
San Francisco, CA


September 19, 1998
Mark Alburger, Voice
Tuolumne Brass 
Tuolumne Brass Concert
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

June 2, 2002 Mark Alburger, Voice 
Missing Persons Concert
Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA 

May 15, 2006 
Mark Alburger Voice
DVC Woodwind Quintet 
Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill, CA 

October 16, 18, 20, 23 (no recording on 25, due to bomb scare), 27, 2006 
Mark Alburger, Voice and MIDI 
Diablo Valley College Music Technology Center, Pleasant Hill, CA 

October 29, 2006 
Mark Alburger, Voice, Digital Audio and MIDI 
Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA 

April 20, 2007 
Mark Alburger, Voice
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra 
 Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA 

April 26, 2007 
Mark Alburger, Voice 
 Diablo Valley College Duck Pond, Pleasant Hill, CA 


Recordings: 

TOO MANY VERSIONS OF BUSINESS AS USUAL (Complete Works, Volume 12) 

L.A. STORIES (Complete Works, Volume 13)

Monday, March 1, 1993

San Fernando Hub, Op. 48


Op. 48 SAN FERNANDO HUB 
(March 1, 1993; New Music, 1993) 
Three Worksongs for Six Voices and Four Keyboards 
Three Worksongs for Two Speaking Keyboardists 
(1994, New Music; 1994) 
Three Worksongs for Two Speaking Guitarists 
(1994; New Music, 1994) 
Three Worksongs for Two Bass Instruments 
Worksong for Musical Boats (BLUE BOAT) 
Found Texts 
 I. Fresno 
 II. Explosives 
 III. The Hell Out of Here 


Score:





Performances:

November 1, 1995 
Mark Alburger, Voice and Sequencer 
NOW Music Festival
Angelico Auditorium
Dominican College, San Rafael, CA

June 13, 1998
Elizabeth Lee and Jeana Ogren, Pianos
National Association of Composers
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

August 1, 1998
Elizabeth Lee and Jeana Ogren, Pianos
John Darby Studio, Fremont, CA

May 21, 1999
Mark Alburger, Voice; Elizabeth Lee, Piano
Las Pulgas School, San Mateo, CA

November 11, 1999
The Boat People
Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

May 5, 2000
Mark Alburger, Voice
Corte Madera School, Corte Madera, CA

January 10, 2007
Mark Alburger, Voices and MIDI
Diablo Valley College Music Technology Center
Pleasant Hill, CA

April 20, 2007 
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

April 26, 2007
Mark Alburger, Voice
Diablo Valley College Duck Pond,
Pleasant Hill, CA

December 17, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 48: Appeasement on Earth
The Opus Project Orchestra and Audience
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, CA


Recordings:

HALFWAY MARK (January 2007)

THREE WIRED SYSTRUMS (Complete Works, Volume 11)


Videos:

I. Fresno 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1oMg5ulng

II. Explosives