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