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:

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

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:

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

The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi, Op. 295

Op. 295 THE COURTSHIP OF INANNA AND DUMUZI
     (January 1, 2019)

Score:

Orchestrations, Op. 294

Op. 294 ORCHESTRATIONS (December 26, 2018)
Medieval (400-1400), Op. 288 (2018)
     I. Italy (b. c. 1270) - Trotto (1300)
          (after Florilegium Musicum of Paris, 1973)
     II. Robertsbridge Fragment Composer (b. c. 1290) -
          Organ Estampie (c. 1320)
          (after Anton Webern's 6 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6: 1, 1909)
     III. 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)
Renaissance (1400-1600), Op. 293 (2018)
     I. Johannes Ockeghem (1430-1495) -
         Missa L'Homme Arme (1460): I. Kyrie
          (after Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique: V.)
     II. Pierre Attaignant (1494-1552) -
          Tordion: Quand je bois du vin clairet (1524)
     Tielman Susato (1510-1571) - Dancerye (1551)
          III. Allemande
          IV. Bergarette
          V. Bransle - Den Hobocken Dans
          VI. La Morisque
      VII. Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabouret, 1519-1595) -
          Basse Danse "Jouyssance Vous Donneray"
      VIII. Claude Gervais (1525-1583) -
             Danceries - Book IV (1550):
                   Gailliarde
      IX. Dublin Virginal Book (b. c. 1540) -
            Variations on The Romanesca (1570)
      X. Samuel Voelckel (1560-1617) -
             Courante (1613)
G.F. Handel (1685-1759), Op. 400 (2022)
     Suite No. 5 in E Major ("The Harmonious Blacksmith") (1720):
          IV. Air and Five Variations
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1787), Op. 347 (2021)
     I. Sonata in G, K. 80
     II. Sonata in F (Minuet), K. 94
W.A. Mozart (1756-1791), Op. 396 (2022)
     I. Minuet, K. 94 (1770)
     II. Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545: I. (1788)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1809), Op. 264 (2017)
     After Alban Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (1914): II),
          Bela Bartok's Dance Suite (1923): I,                    
         Arnold Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra (1909):
               I / IV, and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3
                   ("Eroica"): I
      I. Rondo in C Major, Op. 51 (1797)
     II. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major ("Waldstein"), Op. 53 (1818):
          I. Allegro con brio
     III. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor ("Appassionata"), Op. 57 (1806):
          I. Allegro assai
     IV. Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major ("Ghost"), Op. 70, No. 1 (1808):
          II. Largo assai ed espressivo (D Minor)
     V. Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90 (1814): 
          I. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Op. 282 (2018)
     I. Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66
          (1834, after George Crumb's
               Echoes of Time and the River, 1967)
     II. March Funebre in C Minor, Op. 72, No. 2 (1829,   
          after Hector Berlioz's
          Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale, 1840)
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Op. 399 (2022)
     Two Songs (1870)
          I. Chanson de Pecheur
          II. Lydia
Vincent D'Indy (1851-1931), Op. 279 (2018)
     I.  Minuet on the Name of Haydn, Op. 65
          (1909, after Symphony on a French Mountain Air, Op. 25 [1886])
    II. Fantaisie, Op. 99 (1930, after Diptyque Mediterraneen,
          Op. 87 [1925])
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Op. 283 (2018)
     (after Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
          I. Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 (1891)
          II. Reverie, L. 68 (1890)
          III. Suite Bergamasque, L 75 (1905):
               III. Claire de Lune
Erik Satie (1866-1925), Op. 292 (2018)
     I. Secular and Instantaneous Hours: I (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)
Charles Ives (1874-1954), Op. 331 (2019)
     I. Some Southpaw Pitching (1919)
     II. Sonata No. 2 ("Concord") (1920):
          III. The Alcotts
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Op. 291 (2018)
     I. Menuet on the Name of Haydn (1909,
           after Mother Goose Suite: I-II)
     II. Berceuse on the Name of Faure
          (1922, after Mother Goose Suite: I-II)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Op. 348 (2021)
     Piano Sonata (1926): I-III
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Op. 354 (2021)
     I. Concerto in D (1946): I / III
     II. Orpheus (1947): Orpheus Weeps for Eurydice
     III. Cantata (1951): I. A Lyke-Wake Dirge
Ernst Toch (1887-1964), Op. 346 (2021
     I-II. Five Piecs, Op. 86 (1962) - IV-V
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1951), Op. 280 (2018)
     Music for Children, Op. 65:
          X. March (1935) 
          XII. Moonlit Meadows (1935)
          (after The Love for Three Oranges:
                  March and Scherzo)
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Op. 370 (2021)
     3 Psalms (1941)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Op. 284 (2018)
     I. Sodades do Brazil, Op. 67: I
          (after La Creation du Monde: Fugato)
     II. Trois Rag-Caprices, Op. 78: I
          (after Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Op. 398 (2022)
     I. Suite Francaise, FP 80 (1935)
     II. Priez pour Paix, FP 95 (1938)
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), Op. 332 (2019)
     I. Two Pieces (1930): II. Tiger
     II. Sway Dance (1958)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Op. 286 (2018)
     I-II. Children's Notebook, Op. 69 (1945)
          I. March 
          IV. Happy Fairy Tale 
                (after Scherzo, Op. 1)
     III. Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1951):
          I. in C Major
                 (after Symphony No. 1, Op. 10:
                  I. Allegretto - Allegro non troppo)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Op. 369 (2021)
     Out of the Depths, Op. 142 (1957)
     Magnificat, Op. 157: II. Magnificat (1958)
John Cage (1912-1992), Op. 265 (2017)
     After Random Number Generators, Score Layouts,
     Darius Milhaud's La Creation du Monde (1923)
     Igor Stravinsky's The Flood (1962), a Diagonal,
     a Joshua Pierce recording, and
          Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
     I. Bacchanale (1938)
     II. First Construction in Metal (1939)
     III. Jazz Study (1942)
     III. Totem Ancestor (1942)
     IV. And the Earth Shall Bear Again (1942)
     V. In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)
     VI. Primitive (1942)
     VII. Our Spring Will Come (1943)
     VIII. A Room (1943)
     IX. Tossed As It Is Untroubled (1943)
     X. Prelude for Meditation (1944)
     XI. Root of an Unfocus (1944)
     XII. The Perilous Night (1944): VI
     XIII. Dream (1948)
     XIV. Sonatas and Interludes (1948): 
           I / V / XIV / XV / XVI
     XV. Suite for Toy Piano (1948): I-II
     XVI. Music of Changes (1951)
     XVII. Haiku (1951): Haiku I, for my dear friend, Who
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Op. 366 (2021)
     I. Candide - XIX. Words, Words, Words
     II. Chichester Psalms - III. Psalm 131, Psalm 133: 1
Lee Eitzen (1920-1981), Op. 371 (2021
     Psalm 139 (1953): Verses I-XXIV.
Marshall Fine (1956-2014), Op. 368 (2021
     Bestiary, Op. 93 (1989): I-VI

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

March 18, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 51: Questionable Practices
The Opus Project Orchestra
Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA

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

May 27, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 53: Essential Existential
The Opus Project Orchestra
Center for Contemporary Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA

October 7, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 57: Varieties
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

October 27, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 70: Ghost Dance
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

May 26, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 65: The Unkindest Cut of All
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, C

June 30, 2018
(Get Your Kicks with) OPUS 66
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

July 28, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 67: Ludwig, Bela, Igor, and the Wolf
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

August 25, 2018
Revolution! (Sturm und Drang): OPUS 68
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

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

December 15, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 72: Darkness into Light
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

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

April 27, 2019
The Opus Project presents Opus 75-76
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Dive, Pleasant Hill, CA

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

May 25, 2019
The Opus Project presents Opus 77-78
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

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

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


February 29, 2020
The Opus Project presents Opus 83-84: Mythos in Tempore Belli
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

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

July 24, 2021
The Opus Project presents Opus 90:
     Sound at the Beginning of the Funnel
Online Zoom Concert Everywhere!

October 23, 2021
The Opus Project presents Opus 92
Zoom Concert Everywhere!

April 23, 2022
The Opus Project presents Opus 94: Re-Entry!
Center for New Music
San Francisco, CA

February 4, 2023
The Opus Project presents Opus 96: Multiples of 3
Center for New Music
San Francisco, CA

Renaissance Orchestrations, Op. 293

Op. 293 RENAISSANCE ORCHESTRATIONS (December 24, 2018)
I. Johannes Ockeghem (1430-1495)
     Missa L'Homme Arme (1460): I. Kyrie
          (after Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique: V)
II. Pierre Attaignant (1494-1552)
     Tordion: Quand je bois du vin clairet (1524)
Tielman Susato (1510-1571) - Dancerye (1551)
     III. Allemande
     IV. Bergarette
     V. Bransle - Den Hobocken Dans
     VI. La Morisque
VII. Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabouret, 1519-1595)
     Basse Danse "Jouyssance Vous Donneray"
VIII. Claude Gervais (1525-1583)
     Danceries - Book IV (1550): Gailliarde
IX. Dublin Virginal Book (b. c. 1540)
     Variations on The Romanesca (1570)
X. Samuel Voelckel (1560-1617)
     Courante (1613)


Score:

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