Wednesday, September 1, 1999

John and Salome, Op. 80


Op. 80 JOHN AND SALOME (September 1, 1999)
Operetta in One Unnatural Act


PART I
I. Turn  II. You Snakes! 


III. CHORUS - "I Should Be"
  IV. PAVANE - "Are You the One" 


 V. SALOME'S DANCE - "I Swear" 

VI. BLUES TROPE - "Ah, Marvellous!" 


  VII. DIRGE - "Bring Me the Head" Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/John_and_Salome%2C_Op.80_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


Program Note:

 John and Salome is a dismemberment of G.F. Handel's Messiah (Comfort Ye and Ev'ry Valley), Stephen Schwartz's Godspell (Alas, Alas for You), Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms (I.), Gabriel Faure's Pavanne, Richard Strauss's Salome, and Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (IV. March to the Scaffold).

Performances:

February 20, 2010
Return to Return to Sorrento
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, 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


Recordings / Videos:

STORIES WITH A VIEW
(Complete Works, Volume 26)

JOHN AND SALOME) 
Operetta in One Unnatural Act
Part I
I. ACCOMPANIED RECITATIVE - "Turn"
II. ARIA - "You Snakes!"
III. CHORUS - "I Should"
Part II
IV. PAVANE - "Are You the One"
V. SALOME'S DANCE - "I Swear"


VI. BLUES TROPE - "Ah, Marvellous!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vntKJtS8-es

VII. DIRGE - "Bring Me the Head"

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


San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra