Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Broke Dance Intermezzi: C, Op. 299

Op. 299 BROKE DANCE INTERMEZZI: C (February 20, 2019)
IVc1. Romantic-Impressionist Cakewalk (Wagidog)
     [Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy, Scott Joplin, Mark Alburger]
Vc2. Canario Island (Hot Blue)
     [Henry Purcell, Paul Nero, Olivier Messiaen]
IVc3. Cha-Cha Pedestrian - (Satyr)
     [Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein]
IVc4. Boardwalk Ionesco Chair… (Cunningham)
     [Henry Purcell, John Cage, Mark Alburger]
IVc5. Baking Charleston (Greeting)
     [James P. Johnson, Josephine Baker, Igor Stravinsky,
          Mark Alburger]
IVc6. Chalk Circle... (Follow)
     [Navajo]
IVc7. Clap Clap… (Medieval Minimal)
     [French Ars Nova Motet, Steve Reich]
IVc8. Angelic Comparsa (Marian)
     [Thomas Merton, Leonard Bernstein, Mark Alburger]
IVc9. … en Oriente Partibus (Processional)
     [Thomas Merton, Steve Reich, Mark Alburger]
IVc10. Congolese Conga (Estragon)
     [Xavier Cugat, Guido Haazen, Erique Garcia, Gloria Estefan]
IVc11. Combined Contrary Contredanse (Eroica Erasure)
     [W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven]
IVc12. Cortisone Courtesan Cortege (Petite)
     [Claude Debussy, Henri Busser, Harrison Birtwistle]
IVc13. Confounded Country (Occidentally Willing)…
     [Henry Purcell, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Mark Alburger]

Score:


Monday, February 18, 2019

Broke Dance Intermezzi: B, op. 298

Op. 298 BROKE DANCE INTERMEZZI: B (February 18, 2019)
     IVb1. Caged Bacchanale (Viniferous Pentangle)
          [Camille Saint-Saens, John Cage, Mark Alburger}
     IVb2. Badinerie Seed (Boris and Natasha)
          [J.S. Bach, Terry Riley]
     IVb3. Danse Banane Sauvage (Freud)
          [Gustav Mahler, Josephine Baker}
     IVb4. Basse Danse (Jouyssance Vous Donneray)
          [Thoinot Arbeau, Peter Warlock, David Munrow]
     IVb5. Beleagered Bear... (Au Naturel)
          [Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Mark Alburger]
     IVb6. Twelve-Step Beguine (East Side Story)
          [Maurice Ravel, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Mark Alburger]
     IVb7. Prophetic Belly… (Valley of the Whales)
          [Paul Hindemith, Mark Alburger]
     IVb8. Bergamasque Mask (Dandy)
          [Gabriel Faure, Arnold Schoenberg]
     IVb9. Ice Bergerette (In the Brush)
          [Tielman Susato, Hector Berlioz]
     IVb10 CrumBolero (Militaire)
          [Gustav Holst, Maurice Ravel, George Crumb]
     IVb11. Bonne Bon... (Anatomic Memorial)
          [Japan, George Crumb]
     IVb12. Bechtel Bouree (Precipitous)
          [J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Ian Anderson, Matthew Owens]
     IVb13. Brando Bransle (Brawl)
          [Alex North]
     IVb14 …de Bourgogne (Red)
          [Pierre Gervaise, Bela Bartok, Francis Poulenc, Ray Davies]
          IVb15 …de Champagne (Mummers)
               [Pierre Gervaise, Francis Poulenc]
          IVb16. …de l'Official (Ding Dong)
               [Adrian Le Roy, Igor Stravinsky]
          IVb17  ...de Poitou (Double) 
              [Igor Stravinsky]
          IVb18  …Gay (Phalese)
               [Igor Stravinsky]
          IVb19  …Simple (Capriole)
               [Thoinot Arbeau, Peter Warlock, Igor Stravinsky]
          IVb20. Breakaway Break... (Amen)
               [Anonymous, Denmark, Prudentius, Gregory I,
               Guillaume de Machaut, Agincourt, Josquin des Pres,
               Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, William Byrd,
               Robert Ramsey, Antonio Vivaldi, J.S. Bach,
               G.F. Handel, F.J. Haydn, Johann Gottlieb Naumann,
               W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert,
               Hector Berlioz, Giuseppe Verdi, John Stainer,
               Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc,
               Jester Hairston, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein,
               Gregory Coleman, Mark Alburger]
     IVb21. Negotiated Burlesque (Theatricale)
          [Aaron Copland, Marvin Hamlish]
     IVb22. Byzantium Butterfly… (Free Orientale)
          [Henry Purcell, Giacomo Puccini]

BROKE DANCE INTERMEZZI: B, Op. 298 (February 18, 2019) is one of 26 collections of additional dances which can be inserted between (or follow) the Sarabande and Gigue of BROKE DANCE SUITE, OP. 290.  The eighth-to-fifteenth items of this 22-piece second volume hip-hop through broken gyrations of Gabriel Faure, Arnold Schoenberg, Teilmann Susato, Hector Berlioz, Gustav Holst, Maurice Ravel, George Crumb, Japanese ritual music, J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Ian Anderson, Matthew Owens, Alex North, Claude Gervaise, and Francis Poulenc.


Score:

Performance:

     October 5, 2019
     All That Fall
     San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
     St. Teresa of Avila Church, San Francisco, CA

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Broke Dance Intermezzi: A, Op. 297

OP. 297 BROKE DANCE INTERMEZZI: A (February 16, 2019)
     IVa1. Acrophobic Acro… (Circus)
          [Igor Stravinsky]
     IVa2. Triple Air Lines (Io's Cantilena)
          [J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Heitor Villa-Lobos]
     IVa3. Alborada Aubade (Reis Glorios)
          [Guiraut de Bornelh, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
          Albert Roussel, Maurice Ravel, Cyril Scott,
          Francis Poulenc, Mark Alburger]
     IVa4. Alley Cat (Noir et Blanc)
          [Peter Tchaikovsky, Oliver Wallace, Mark Alburger]
     IVa5. Wolvish Alligator... (Lost in the Wind)
          [Seneca, Giuseppe Verdi, Harriet March Page, Mark Alburger]

The above may stand alone or
     be inserted into BROKE DANCE SUITE, Op.  290 (2018)

Score:


Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Book of Revelation, Op. 296

Op. 296 BOOK OF REVELATION (February 5, 2019)
OPERA-ORATORIO (JOHN OF PATMOS, AD 6-100)
CHAPTER I - I AM THE ALPHA
CHAPTER II - MESSAGE TO EPHASUS
CHAPTER III - AS FOR YOU, SARDIS
CHAPTER IV - COME UP HERE
CHAPTER V - WHO THEN WILL OPEN
                              (BLESSING AND HONOR)
CHAPTER VI - A WHITE HORSE
CHAPTER VII - DON'T HARM THE EARTH
CHAPTER VIII - SEVENTH SEAL
CHAPTER IX - FIFTH ANGEL
CHAPTER X - WHAT THE SEVEN THUNDERS SAID
CHAPTER XI - SEVENTH ANGEL
CHAPTER XII - GREAT RED DRAGON
CHAPTER XIII - WHO IS LIKE THE BEAST
CHAPTER XIV - GREAT BABYLON
CHAPTER XV - SONG OF MOSES
CHAPTER XVI - GO AND POUR OUT SEVEN BOWLS
CHAPTER XVII - THE GREAT WHORE
CHAPTER XVIII - THE FALL
CHAPTER XIX -  SMOKE
CHAPTER XX - ANCIENT SERPENT
CHAPTER XXI - AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN
CHAPTER XXII - THE GRACE OF OUR LORD


Score:



Performance:

May 4, 2019
Under Deconstruction
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
St. Teresa of Avila Church, San Francisco, CA