2017, Op. 261 (2017)

Op. 261 2017 (January 10, 2017)
     An Opera in Multiple Unnecessary Acts
          I. Farewell Address (January 10)
          II. Press Conference (January 11)
          III. Confirmation Hearing (January 12)
          IV. Tweets (January 13)
          V. Phone Calls (January 14)
          VI. Meet the Press (January 15)
          VII. Deutsche Welle (January 16)
          VIII. Joint News Conference (January 17)
          IX. Final Press Conference (January 18)
          X. Confirmation Questions (January 19)
          XI. Inauguraton Speech Protests (January 20)
          XII. Women's March on Washington (January 21)


          Score:

Performances:

               August 5, 12 / 19 / 27, 2017
                    Fresh Voices XVII: Feet First Into the Fire!
                         Barack Obama / Ben Carson  - Patrick Brancato
                         Donald Trump / Sergey Kislyak / John Lewis /
                              Sherrod Brown - Mark Alburger
                         Elizabeth Warren / America Ferrara - Valerie Salcedo
                         Vladimir Putin / Michael Flynn - Ryann Swale
                         Piano - Frank Johnson
                      Director / Music Director - Mark Alburger
                         Bay Area Stage, Vallejo, CA / St. Alban's Church, Albany,
                             CA /
                         Community Music Center, Capp Street, San Francisco,
                              CA

               November 4, 2017
                     A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas
        Donald Trump / Ben Carson / Michael Flynn,
                             Sergei Kislyak, John Lewis - Mark Alburger
                        Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren / Tamara Keith,
                             Scott Simon, Chuck Todd - Valerie Salcedo
                        San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
                              St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell,
                              San Francisco, CA

24 Tone Preludes, Op. 260

Op. 260 24 TONE PRELUDES (November 16, 2016)
Freely realized on the first 24 ordinal tone rows, after Claude Debusy's Preludes
     I.  Dances of the Devilettes
     II.  Veiled Sails
     III.  Plane Winds
     IV. Sound Perfumes
     V.  The Foothills of Annapurna
     VI.  Snowstorm
     VII.  Westron Wynde
     VIII.  Brunette
     IX.  Serenadis Interruptus
     X.  Drowned
     XI.  A Midsummer Night's Dance
     XII.  Jive
     XIII.  Fools
     XIV.  Dead and Gone
     XV.  Havana Wine
     XVI.  Exquisite Dancing
     XVII.  Quiet Town
     XVIII.  Jive General
     XIX.  Moonlit Audience
     XX. Oskar's Scherzo
     XXI. U.S. Eccentric
     XXII. Canupus Calm
     XXIII. Fierce Alternatives
     XXIV. Fourth of Fireworks


      Score:

Mark and Jerry Go the the CVS, Op. 259

Op. 259 MARK AND JERRY GO TO THE CVS (NOVEMBER 10, 2012) 
    (November 1, 2016)
    Scherzo for Orchestra
    4444 4431 Hp Cel Pf Bells Chimes Crotales Vib Cyms Gongs Mar
          Strgs


    Score:

Performance:

      November 13, 2016
         Video
         Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

         

Jonah, Op. 258

Op. 258 JONAH (October 15, 2016)
     Fish Story for Voices and Instruments
          I. Fish Story
          II. Belly Dance
          III. Assyrian Wipe-Out
          IV. Out of his Gourd


    Score:

The Decameron: Sixth Day, Op. 257

Op. 257 THE DECAMERON (October 1, 2016)
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments
SIXTH DAY / Introduction
Novel I.  A knight offers to carry Madonna Oretta on horseback
     with a story
Novel II.  Cisti gives Messer Geri Spina to know that he has asked
     that of him which he should not
Novel III.  Monna Nonna de' Pulci silences the Bishop of Florence
Novel IV.  Chichibio converts Currado Gianfigliazzi's wrath into
     laughter
Novel V.  Messer Forese da Rabatta and Master Giotto deride one
     another's scurvy appearance
Novel VI.  Michele Scalza proves to certain young men that the
     Baronci are the best gentlemen in the world
Novel VII.  Madonna Filippa, being found by her husband with her
     lover, is cited before the court, and by a ready and jocund answer
     acquits herself
Novel VIII.  Fresco admonishes his niece not to look at herself in the
     glass, if 'tis, as she says, grievous to her to see nasty folk
Novel IX.  Guido Cavalcanti by a quip meetly rebukes certain
     Florentine gentlemen who had taken him at a disadvantage
Novel X.  Fra Cipolla promises to shew certain country-folk a
     feather of the Angel Gabriel, in lieu of which he finds coals


Score:

To Those Who Come After: Three Elegies, Op. 256

Op. 256 TO THOSE WHO COME AFTER: THREE ELEGIES
(September 1, 2016, after Bertolt Brecht)
    I. Truly I Live in a Time of Darkness
    II. I Came to the Cities in a Time of Disorder
    III.  You Who'll Be Borne After the Flood


Score:

Performance:

November 3, 2018
Goat Hall Productions Fresh Voices XVIII
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

The Great Widow, Op. 255

Op. 255 THE GREAT WIDOW
(ALMA MARIA SCHINDLER MAHLER GROPIUS WERFEL, PART II)
     (August 1, 2016)
LXI. 1939 - GRETE / BRUCKNER
     (Grete's Death / Bruckner's Third Negotiations)
LXII. 1940 - PYRANEES (Alma's Escape)
LXIII. 1941 - LOS ANGELES / HANDSOME AUGUST HESS /
     ALBRECHT JOSEPH (Alma's Politics)
LXIV. 1942 - ERICH MARIA REMARQUE /
     ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (Drinking Song)
LXV. 1943 - SANTA BARBARA / FRANZ WERFEL
     (Werfel's Heart Attacks)
LXVI. 1944 - TORBERG / KOKOSCHKA / BEMELMANS
     (Alma's Friends)
LXVII. 1945 - MOLL / EBERSTALLER / MUSSOLINI / HITLER /
     WERFEL (Alma's Deaths)
LXVIII. 1946 - THOMAS MANN / BRUNO WALTER /
     CLAIRE GOLL (Alma's Prospects)
LXIX. 1947 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / THOMAS MANN
     (Schoenberg's Ire)
LXX. 1948 - ANTON BRUCKNER / ANNA MAHLER
     (Alma's Sale / Anna's Visit)
LXXI. 1949 - STRAUSS / PFITZNER / SCHOENBERG / MANN…
     (Alma's 70th Birthday)
LXXII. 1950 - ANNA / MARINA (Anna's Move)
LXXIII. 1951 - ARNOLD SCHOENBERG / ANNA MAHLER
     (Schoenberg's Death / Anna's Mask)
LXXIV. 1952 - YOU BET YOUR LIFE
     (Alma's Move / Anna's Appearance)
LXXV. 1953 - THORNTON WILDER / SAMUEL STEWARD
     (Alma's Encounters)
LXXVI. 1954 - VIENNA STATE OPERA / RODIN / MAHLER /
     STRAUSS (Alma's Protestations)
LXXVII. 1955 - BENEDIKT FRED DOLBIN /
     LIGHT IN THE NIGHT
     (Photo VI)
LXXVIII. 1956 - 120 EAST 73RD STREET /
     BLISS IN THE WOODS
     (Photo VII)
LXXIX. 1957 - LIBRARY / ONSLAUGHT (Photo VIII)
LXXX. 1958 - AND THE BRIDGE IS LOVE (Alma's Biography)
LXXXI. 1959 - MAHLER / PFITZNER / ZEMLINSKY /
     SCHOENBERG / BERG / KORNGOLD /
     KRENEK / BRITTEN (Alma's Dedicators)
LXXXII. 1960 - WALTER GROPIUS / PAUL ZSOLNAY /
     WILLY HAAS (Alma's Reactions)
LXXXIII. 1961 - DERYCK COOKE (Mahler's 10th)
LXXXIV . 1962 - BERNSTEIN / LA GRANGE / WOOD / CARR
     (The Alma Problem)
LXXXV. 1963 - IGOR STRAVINSKY / WALTER GROPIUS /
     OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Photo IX)
LXXXVI. 1964 - ELIAS CANETTI / AL[BRECHT] JOSEPH /
     FRIEDRICH TORBERG
     (Alma's Death)


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