Mice Suite No. 3, Op. 59

[Wayne Wong, Maria Mikheyenko, Alexander Katsman 

September 14, 2008, Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA] 

Op. 59 MICE SUITE N0. 3 

(January 21, 1998; New Music, 1998) 

For Baritone, Bass (or Alto), Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, 

Bassoon, Piano, Percussion, and String Bass 

I. Dreamsong I 

II. Triple Fugato of Vengeance 

III. Dreamsong II 


Scores:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Mice_Suite_No.3%2C_Op.59_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performances:

October 1997 

Composers Performance Ensemble National Association of Composers,

Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA 

March 28, 1998 NACUSA 

Ensemble National Association of Composers

Episcopal Church, Palo Alto, CA

 

September 6-7, 12, 14 

Wayne Wong, Maria Mikheyenko, Alexander Katsman 

San Francisco Cabaret Opera Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA 

September 6-7, 12, 14, 2008

Mice Suites

Megan Cullen, Soprano (Boss) / Marilyn Pratt, Soprano (Offstage Soprano)

Suzanna Mizell, Soprano (Curley's Wife) / Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano (Lennie)

Wayne Wong (George) / Mark Alburger, Tenor (Curley)

Goat Hall Productions

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

November 18, 2017

The Opus Project presents Opus 59: Mysterious Wonder

The Opus Project Orchestra

Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

December 1, 2017

Goat Hall 30th Anniversary Celebration

Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor
Frank Johnson, Piano

Community Music Center

Recording: 

EVERYTHING IS RELATIVITY
(Complete Works, Volume 16)

The Ten Commandments, Op. 58

 Op. 58 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (July 1, 1997)
 SATB, Keyboard (Cl, Bssn, Alt Tpt, Tb, Strings ad lib)


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Ten_Commandments%2C_Op.58_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performance:

October 28, 2017

The Opus Project presents Opus 58: Haunted

The Opus Project Orchestra

Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

Recordings: 

EVERYTHING IS RELATIVITY 

(Complete Works, Volume 16) 

TWELVE-TRIBE MUSIC 

(Complete Works, Volume 19) 

THE BIBLE

Amazing Joseph, Op. 57

 Op. 57 AMAZING JOSEPH (June 1, 1997)
For Voices and Instruments
I. I Had a Dream 

II. Meanwhile, Judah 

III. Now the Ishmaelites (Potiphar's Wife) 

IV. We Had Dreams 

V. Pharaoh Had a Dream 

VI. Why Don't You Do Something? 

VII. Take My Youngest Son

VIII. I Am Joseph

IX. Now I Can Die

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Amazing_Joseph%2C_Op.57_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performances:

October 8, 2008

Mark Alburger, Voice and Midi

Scola Prosek Salon, San Francisco, CA

March 5-7, 2010

Sex and the Bible

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera

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

October 7, 2017

The Opus Project presents Opus 57: Varieties

The Opus Project  Orchestra

Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

Recording:

EVERYTHING IS RELATIVITY
(Complete Works, Volume 16)

For My Brother For My Brother, Op. 56

 Op. 56 FOR MY BROTHER FOR MY BROTHER (May 1, 1997) 

For Reciter (or Instrument) and Keyboard (After S. Alburger) 

1. A Poem for My Brother 

2. Feeling Bad Particles 

3. Dressing Up I.-IV. 

     V. A Mother's Disappointment 

     VI. In Hollow Closets 

     VII. I Fell In 

     VIII. Baby's Head 

     IX. You've Noticed 

     X. Names of Fabric 

     XI. Heaven Help 

     XII. It Is Fitting 

4. Things That Leave Me Craving for More 

5. Sleepytime Burgers (Pass Me Eats) 

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/For_My_Brother_For_My_Brother%2C_Op.56_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performances:

November 4, 1992 

Mark Alburger, Oboe and Sequencer 

Albrecht Auditorium
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 

January 7, 1997
Mark Alburger, Voice;
Molly Axtmann and Thomas Goss, Piano
National Association of Composers Salon
Oakland, CA

May 7-8, 1999
Mark Alburger, Voice
Michael Sheadel, Piano
 Susan Hess Dance Studio
Philadelphia, PA

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

April 20, 2007
Lisa McHenry, Voice; Alexis Alrich, Piano
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

February, 2008
NEW MUSIC HOUSE
Vacaville, CA

August 28, 2017

The Opus Project presents Opus 56: Exotic Evenings and Lyrical Moments

The Opus Project Orchestra

Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA

Recording:

EVERYTHING IS RELATIVITY
(Complete Works, Volume 18)
FOR MY BROTHER FOR MY BROTHER
1. A Poem for My Brother
2. Feeling Bad Particles  
3. Dressing Up I.-IV. 
     V. A Mother's Disappointment 

     VI. In Hollow Closets 

     VII. I Fell In 

      VIII. Baby's Head 

      IX. You've Noticed 

      X. Names of Fabric 

      XI. Heaven Help 

      XII. It Is Fitting 

4. Things That Leave Me Craving for More 

5. Sleepytime Burgers (Pass Me Eats)

The Passion According to St. Matthew, Op. 55

Op. 55 THE PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW
(April 1, 1997)
For Voices and Instruments
I. RECITATIVE "Then One of the Twelve"
II. GROUND "Where Will You Go?"
III. RECITATIVE-CANON "Truly, I say"
IV. CHORALE "Now As They Were Eating"
V. LAMENTI ESTAMPIE "Said Jesus at Gethsemene"
VI. CHANT OSTINATI "My Soul Is Sorrowful"
VII. ALL-INTERVAL ORGANUM "Father If It Be Possible"
VIII. MIRROR "Are You Still Sleeping"
IX. INVENTION "Judas Came Up and Said"
X. MIRROR "Then the Disciples"
XI. MARCH "Then Those Who Had Seized Jesus" (Hec Lives)
XII. SINFONIA "This Fellow Said"
XIII. MARCH "When Morn Came" (Hec Dies)
XIV. RITORNELLO "When Judas, His Betrayer"
XV. RECITATIVE-OSTINATO "Are You the King"
XVI. HOCKETROPE "Where Is the King?" (Trope I)
XVII. CHORUS "Who Do You Want to Release"
XVIII. MOTET RAG "Hail, King of the Jews" (Alle, psallite - Alleluya)
XIX. DIMINUTION "As They Went Out"
XX. CHORALE PRELUDE AND QUADRUPLE FUGATO
 "And They Came to a Place Named Golgotha"
INTERLUDE I (The Nailing to the Cross)
ANTIPHON I (The Abuse of the Crowd)
RECAPITULATION (The Charge Against Him)
ANTIPHON II (The Lament of the Disciples)
XXI. SPECIES COUNTERPOINT (After Zarlino) "He Saved Others" (At the Cross)
XXII. CANONIC PALINDROME "Eli, Eli, Lama sabachta'ni"
XXIII. OSTINATO-CANON "It Is Finished" (Trope II)
XXIV. CANTUS FIRMUS "And Behold"

A Crucifixion of Igor Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles, Bob Merrill's How Much Is That Doggie in the Window, recitative cadences, Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, blues bass lines, minimalist foreshortenings, Stanford chorale and counterpoint entrance exam fragments, medieval works found in Volume 1 of The Historical Anthology of Music (HAM - Lamento di Tristano; the Robertsbridge Codex Organ Estampie No. 1; the Gregorian Chants Hec Dies, Psalm 146 with Antiphon, Alleluia: Angelus Domini, the Scholia Enchiriadis's Nos Qui Vivimus)....


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Passion_According_to_St._Matthew%2C_Op.55_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


Recording:



THE PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW
Tritone Orchestra and Garbage Band
(Complete Works, Volume 17)

I. RECITATIVE "Then One of the Twelve"
II. GROUND "Where Will You Go?"
III. RECITATIVE-CANON "Truly, I say"
IV. CHORALE "Now As They Were Eating"
V. LAMENTI ESTAMPIE "Said Jesus at Gethsemene"
VI. CHANT OSTINATI "My Soul Is Sorrowful"
VII. ALL-INTERVAL ORGANUM "Father If It Be Possible"
(three-fold cycle played thrice in variants)
VIII. MIRROR "Are You Still Sleeping"
IX. INVENTION "Judas Came Up and Said"
X. MIRROR "Then the Disciples"
XI. MARCH "Then Those Who Had Seized Jesus" (Hec Lives)
XII. SINFONIA "This Fellow Said"
XIII. MARCH "When Morn Came" (Hec Dies)
XIV. RITORNELLO "When Judas, His Betrayer"
XV. RECITATIVE-OSTINATO "Are You the King"
XVI. HOCKETROPE "Where Is the King?" (Trope I)
XVII. CHORUS "Who Do You Want to Release"
XVIII. MOTET RAG "Hail, King of the Jews" (Alle, psallite - Alleluya)
XIX. DIMINUTION "As They Went Out"
XX. CHORALE PRELUDE AND QUADRUPLE FUGATO
 "And They Came to a Place Named Golgotha"
INTERLUDE I (The Nailing to the Cross)
ANTIPHON I (The Abuse of the Crowd)
RECAPITULATION (The Charge Against Him)
ANTIPHON II (The Lament of the Disciples)
XXI. SPECIES COUNTERPOINT (After Zarlino) "He Saved Others" (At the Cross)
XXII. CANONIC PALINDROME "Eli, Eli, Lama sabachta'ni"
XXIII. OSTINATO-CANON "It Is Finished" (Trope II)
XXIV. CANTUS FIRMUS "And Behold"

Israel in Trouble, Op. 54

Op. 54 ISRAEL IN TROUBLE (January 1, 1997) 

Oratorio for Voices and Instruments

  I. If It Is Thus

  II. Cunning Hunter

  III. Eyes Dim

  IV. Fly Away 

V. Well, Well, Well, Well, Well

  VI. Shouldn't Work for Nothing 

VII. How To Depart 

VIII. On His Way 

IX. One Day Dinah 

X. If It Is Thus 

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Israel_in_Trouble%2C_Op.54_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

 
Recording: 

DEATHSONGS 

(Complete Works, Volume 14) 

Mice Suite No. 2, op. 53

Op. 53 MICE SUITE NO. 2
(December 30, 1996; New Music, 1996)
Seven Vocables for Soprano, English Horn, Clarinet, and Harp
Seven Vocables for Five Singers (SATBarB),
English Horn, Clarinet, and Harp (1997; New Music, 1997)
I. Breathsong
II. Tartsong I
III. Tartsong II
IV. Dancesong
V. Deathsong I
VI. Deathsong II
VII. Hartsong


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Mice_Suite_No.2%2C_Op.53_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


Performances:

July 10, 1996
Deborah Kavasch,
Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Newport, OR



October 1996
National Association of Composers,
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

March 1, 1997
NEW MUSIC Ensemble
College Music Society, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

April 20, 2007
Marilyn Pratt and Suzanna Mizell, Sopranos; Carl Koryat, Baritone
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

February 16, 2008
Suzanna Mizell, Soprano; Mark Alburger, Electronics / Keyboard
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The White Horse
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opea
St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco, CA

September 6-7, 12, 14, 2008

Mice Suites

Megan Cullen, Soprano (Boss) / Marilyn Pratt, Soprano (Offstage Soprano)

Suzanna Mizell, Soprano (Curley's Wife) / Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano (Lennie)

Wayne Wong (George) / Mark Alburger, Tenor (Curley)

Goat Hall Productions

Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

May 27, 2017

The Opus Project presents Opus 53: Essential Existential

Jill Wagoner, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Bass / The Opus Project Orchestra

Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francico, CA

Recording:


DEATHSONGS
(Complete Works, Volume 14)


MICE SUITE NO. 2
Instrumental Version
I. Breathsong
II. Tartsong I
III. Tartsong II
IV. Dancesong
V. Deathsong I
VI. Deathsong II
VII. Hartsong