Satie Orchestrations, Op. 292

Op. 292 SATIE ORCHESTRATIONS (December 22, 2018)

I. Secular and Instantaneous Hours:
     I. Obstacles Venimeux 
          (after Parade)

II. Sports et Divertissements:
     XVII. Tango
          (after Igor Stravinksy's Tango)

III. Avant-Dernieres Pensees:
     II. Aubade
          (after Paul Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and
          Francis Poulenc's Aubade)

IV. Sonata Bureaucratique:
     I. Allegro
          (after Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella)

V. Premiere Minuet
     (after Parade)


Performances:

February 23, 2019
Opus 73-74: When in Romance...
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

April 27, 2019
Spirit of Opus 75-76
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

June 25, 2019
Opus 77-78: Being and Somethingness
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

October 19, 2019
Opus 81-82: Imaginary Soundscapes
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

June 12, 2021
Opus 89: Brave New Order
Zoom Concert Everywhere!

Ravel Orchestrations, Op. 291

Op. 291 RAVEL ORCHESTRATIONS (December 16, 2018)
      (after Mother Goose Suite: I-II)
     I. Menuet on the Name of Haydn (1909)
     II. Berceuse on the Name of Faure (1922,)

     Score:

Performance:

          February 23, 2019
          Opus 73-74: When in Romance...
          The Opus Project Orchestra
          Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290

Op. 290 BROKE DANCE SUITE (December 10, 2018)
     I. Bourgeois Ouverture (Comedie-Ballet)
          [Jean-Baptiste Lully, Darius Milhaud]
     II. Allemande Left-Right (Brothers' Joy)
          [Germany, Tielmann Susato, Ludwig van Beethoven]
     III. Au Courante (Sweet Expectation, Running)
          [France, Samuel Voelckel, J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel]
     IV. Varese Sarabande (Icy Folia)
          [Spain, La Folia, G.F. Handel, Edgar Varese]
     V. Unkempt Gigue (Images from the Stark Land)
          [England, Ireland, William Kemp, J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy]

     "Many later suites included other movements placed between
          sarabande and gigue."  [Wikipedia, Suite (Music)]

     For this piece, these would constitute dances of
          Op. 297 BROKE DANCE INTERMEZZI: A (February 16, 2019)
               through
          Op. 322 BROKE DANCE INTERMEZZI: Z (June 14, 2019)

     N.B. expanded versions of BROKE DANCE SUITE may include
          any or all movements of above, either interpolated between
          Sarabande and Gigue, or directly following the latter... 


Performances:

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

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

The Decameron - Tenth Day, Op. 289

Op. 289  THE DECAMERON (November 18, 2018)
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments,
    after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
TENTH DAY / Introduction

Novel I -  A knight in the service of the King of Spain deems himself
     ill-paid
Novel II - Ghino di Tacco captures the Abbot of Cluny

Novel III - Mitridanes, holding Nathan in despite, journeys with intent
     to kill him

Novel IV - Messer Gentile de' Carisendi disinters a lady that he loves
Novel V -  Madonna Dianora craves of Messer Ansaldo a garden

Novel VI - King Charles the Old falls in love with two young maidens

Novel VII - King Pedro, apprised of the fervent love borne him by Lisa
Novel VIII - Sophronia, albeit she deems herself wife to Gisippus,
     is wife to Titus Quintius Fulvus
Novel IX - Saladin, in guise of a merchant, is honourably entreated by
     Messer Torello
Novel X - Gualtieri, Marquis of Saluzzo, consents to take Griselda as
     his wife

Medieval Orchestrations, Op. 288

Op. 288 MEDIEVAL ORCHESTRATIONS (October 24, 2018)
     Italy (b. c. 1270)
          Trotto (1300,
               after Florilegium Musicum of Paris, 1973)
     Robertsbridge Fragment Composer (b. c. 1290)
          Organ Estampie (c. 1320,
               after Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6: 1, 1909)
     Jacopo da Bologna (1320-1370)
          Non al suo amante (No One Ever Pleased a Lover so Much
               (c. 1350, Petrarch, 1304-1374, after Arnold Schoenberg's
               A Survivor from Warsaw, 1948)


Score:

Performances:

     July 11-12, 2014
     Fresh Voices XIV: Taken
     Harriet March Page, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor
     Goat Hall Productions
     Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

     October 4, 2014
     Music of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water
     San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
     Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

     May 6, 2017
     San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
     St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA

     October 27, 2018
     The Opus Project presents Opus 70: Ghost Dances
     Megan Cullen, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor /
     The Opus Project Orchestra
     Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

Cliff Variations, Op. 287

Op. 287 CLIFF VARIATIONS (October 22, 2018)
Theme and 30 Passacaglic Life Changes
     [after Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) -
          Symphony No. 4, Op. 98 (1885): IV]
Theme
     [Mark Alburger (b. 1957) -
          Crystal Series, Op. 32  (1987):
               I. Crystal Bells]
Variation I
     [Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) -
          Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 (1936)]
Variation II
     [Philip Glass (b. 1937) -
          The Illusionist (2006):
               XXI. Life in the Muntains]
Variation III
     [Terry Gilkyson (1916-1999) -
          The Jungle Book (1967):
               III. Bare Necessities]
Variation IV
     [Roger Miller (1936-1992) -
          Robin Hood (1973):
               II. Oo-De-Lally]
Variation V
     [Richard Sherman (b. 1928) -
          Mary Poppins (1967):
               XIV. Chim Chim Cher-ee]
Variation VI
     [Alan Menken (b. 1949) -
          Aladdin (1992):
                VIII. Prince Ali]
Variation VII
     [Alexander Courage (1919-2008) -
           Theme from "Star Trek" (1966)]
Variation VIII
     [Sammy Fain (1902-1989) -
          Peter Pan (1959):
                You Can Fly]
Variation IX
     [George Bruns (1914-1983 -
          101 Dalmatians:
               Cruella da Vil]
Variation X
     [John Williams (b. 1932) -
          Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981):
               I. Indiana Jones March]
Variation XI
     [George Bruns (1914-1983) -
          Yo Ho a Pirate's Life for Me (1967)]
Variation XII
     [Buddy Baker (1818-2002) -
          The Fox and the Hound (1981):
               Best of Friends]
Variation XIII
     [Alan Menken (b. 1949) -
          Beauty and the Beast (1991) -
               Belle (Little Town)]
Variation XIV [
     [James Newton Howard (b. 1951) -
          Malificent (2014) - 
               VI. Go Away]
Variation XV
     [Billie Joe Armstrong (b. 1972) -
          American Idiot (2004):
               IV. Boulevard of Broken Dreams]
Variation XVI
     [Valerie Simpson (b. 1946) -
          Ain't No Mountain High Enough (1966)]
Variation XVII
     [Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) -
          Mulan (1998):
               II. Reflection]
Variation XVIII
     [Phil Collins (b. 1951) -
          Tarzan (1999):
               VI. Strangers Like Me]
Variation XIX
     [Martie Maguire (b. 1969) -
          Not Ready to Make Nice (2006)]
Variation XX
     [Elton John (b. 1947) -
          The Lion King (1994):
               IV. Hakuna Matata]
Variation XXI
     [John Williams (b. 1932) -
          Superman (1978):
               Theme]
Variation XXII
     [Macklemore (b. 1983 -
          Same Love (2012)]
Variation XXIII
     [Adele Adkins (b. 1988) -
          Rolling in the Deep (2012)]
Variation XXIV
     [Dee Snider (b. 1955) -
          Ride to Live, Live to Ride (1983)]
Variation XXV
     [Ken Casey (b. 1969) -
          I'm Shipping Up to Boston (2006)
Variation XXVI
     [Shawn Patterson (b. 1965) -
          Everything Is Awesome (2015)]
Variation XXVII
     [Max Martin (b. 1971 -
          Oops!…I Did It Again (2000)]
Variation XXVIII
     [Kevin Hendrickson -
          Jake and the Neverland Pirates (2011)]
Variation XXIX
     [Rachel Platten (b. 1981) -
          Fight Song (2015)]
Variation XXX [
     Chris Janson (b. 1986) -
          Fix a Drink (2017)]


Score:

Shostakovich Orchestrations, Op. 286

Op. 286 SHOSTAKOVICH ORCHESTRATIONS (September 1, 2018)

I. Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945) I. March (after Scherzo, Op. 1)

II. Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945): IV. Happy Fairy Tale
III. Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1951): I. in C Major
     (after Symphony No. 1, Op. 10: I. Allegretto - Allegro non troppo)


Performances:

September 29, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 69: Moondance
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

March 28, 2020
The Opus Project presents Opus 85-86-87
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA