Noah's Flood ("Noah, Noah"), Op. 98

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


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Noah's_Flood%2C_Op.98_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


Performance:

March 5-7, 12-14, 2009

Sex and the Bible

Goat Hall Productons

Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

Recording:


BEGINNING SOMEWHERE
New Music, 2008

Noah's Flood


I. Wicked Prelude


II. Exhortation (Noah, Noah) / III. Dire Fears (Day of Wrath)

Quartet for the Beginning of Time, Op. 97

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) 

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Quartet_for_the_Beginning_of_Time%2C_Op.97_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performance:

March 5-7, 12-14, 2010
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA


Recordings:

BEGINNING SOMEWHERE, New Music

THE BIBLE, New Music

SEX AND THE BIBLE: THE OPERA (PART I), New Music

The Wind God, Op. 96

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


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Wind_God%2C_Op.96_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


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