Mark Alburger, Works

Wednesday, March 1, 2000

The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Op. 85

Op. 85 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW

(March 1, 2000)

Opera-Oratorio for Voices and Orchestra

I. The Temptation

II. The People That Walked in Darkness

III. The Call

IV. The Beatitudes

V. The Salt of the Earth

VI. The Sermon

VII. The Lord's Prayer

VIII. Ask and You Shall Receive

IX. The Builders

X. The Miracles

XI. Surely He Has Born Our Griefs

XII. The Would-Be Followers

XIII. The Storm

XIV. The Gadarene Demonaic[s] (Trope Rap)

XV. The Paralytic (The Blasphemy)

XVI. The Tax Collector

XVII. Jairus's Daughter and the Woman Who Touched the Cloak

XVIII. Two Blind Men

XIX. The Twelve

XX. The Coming Persecutions

XXI. The Messengers

XXII. Come Unto Me

XXIII. The Questions

XXIV. Beelzebub

XXV. The Demand for a Miracle (I)

XXVI. The Return

XXVII. The Sower

XXVIII. The Parables

XXIX. Salome's Dance

XXX. Herod's Response

XXXI. The Head of John the Baptist

XXXII. The Five [Four] Thousand

XXXIII. Walk on Water

XXXIV. The Canaanite Woman (O Jesu Fili David)

XXXV. The Demand for a Miracle (II)

XXXVI. The Declaration

XXXVII. The Rock (Tu Es Petrus)

XXXVIII. The Prophecy and Rebuke (Get Thee Behind Me, Satan)

XXXIX. The Cross (Qui Vult Venire)

XL. The Transfiguration

XLI. Concerto for Confusion and Contention

XLII. The Rich Young Man

XLIII. The Triumphal Entry

XLIV. The Temple

XLV. The Tenants in the Vinyard

XLVI. The Great Commandment

XLVII. Jerusalem (Lauda Jerusalem)

XLVIII. Sleepers, Awake!

XLIX. The Three Servants

L. The Last Judgement / The Anointment

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_St._Matthew%2C_Op.85_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performance:

December 12, 2020

The Opus Project presents Opus 85 Online: Global Warning

Zoom Concert Everywhere

Recording:

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW

(Complete Works, Volume 29)

Monday, February 21, 2000

Flute Concerto ("Mythological"), Op. 84

Op. 84 FLUTE CONCERTO ("Mythological")
(February 21, 2000)
For Flute and Orchestra
I. Allegro aperto
II. Adagio non troppo
III. Allegro

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Flute_Concerto_'Mythological'%2C_Op.84_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performances:

May 9, 2004
Bruce Salvisberg, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

February 20, 22
Tritone Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Technology Center, Pleasant Hill, CA

December 16, 2019

The Opus Project presents Opus 83-84: Mythos in Tempore Belli

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

Recording:

MYTHOS IN TEMPORE BELLI
(New Music, 2008)

FLUTE CONCERTO
I. Allegro Aperto
II. Adagio non troppo
III. Allegro

Sunday, December 5, 1999

Quadruple Concerto ("Metal"), Op. 83

Op. 83 QUADRUPLE CONCERTO ("Metal")

(December 5, 1999)

For Flutes (and Metallic Orchestra)

For Wind Quartet (and Metallic Orchestra)

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante

III. Moderato

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Quadruple_Concerto_'Metal'%2C_Op.83_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performance:

March 4, 2000
Composers Performance Ensemble
National Association of Composers,
Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA

December 16, 2019

The Opus Project presents Opus 83-84: Mythos in Tempore Belli

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

Recording:

MYTHOS IN TEMPORE BELLI
(Complete Works, Volume 28)

Tuesday, November 16, 1999

Symphony No. 4 ("Sequence Music"), Op. 82

Op. 82 SYMPHONY NO. 4 ("Sequence Music")

(November 16, 1999)

For Orchestra (2222 2231 2perc, pf, strings)

I. Allegro

II. Andante moderato

III. Allegro molto

IV. Allegro molto

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.4_'Sequence_Music'%2C_Op.82_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performance:

October 19, 2019

The Opus Project presents Opus 81-82: Imaginary Soundscapes

Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

Recording:

MYTHOS IN TEMPORE BELLI
(Complete Works, Volume 27)

Friday, October 1, 1999

The Beatitudes, Op. 81

Op. 81 THE BEATITUDES (BLESSED ARE)

(October 1, 1999) for Chorus and Orchestra

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Beatitudes%2C_Op.81_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performance:

October 19, 2019

The Opus Project presents 81-82: Imaginary Soundscapes

Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

Recording:

STORIES WITH A VIEW

(Complete Works, Volume 26)

Wednesday, September 1, 1999

John and Salome, Op. 80

Op. 80 JOHN AND SALOME (September 1, 1999)
Operetta in One Unnatural Act

PART I

I. Turn

II. You Snakes!

III. CHORUS - "I Should Be"

IV. PAVANE - "Are You the One"

V. SALOME'S DANCE - "I Swear"

VI. BLUES TROPE - "Ah, Marvellous!"

VII. DIRGE - "Bring Me the Head"

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/John_and_Salome%2C_Op.80_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Program Note:

John and Salome is a dismemberment of G.F. Handel's Messiah (Comfort Ye and Ev'ry Valley), Stephen Schwartz's Godspell (Alas, Alas for You), Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms (I.), Gabriel Faure's Pavanne, Richard Strauss's Salome, and Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (IV. March to the Scaffold).

Performances:

February 20, 2010

Return to Return to Sorrento

San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

September 28, 2019

The Opus Project presents 79-80: Fate Knocking at the Floor

The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra

Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

Recordings / Videos:

STORIES WITH A VIEW
(Complete Works, Volume 26)

JOHN AND SALOME)

Operetta in One Unnatural Act

Part I

I. ACCOMPANIED RECITATIVE - "Turn"

II. ARIA - "You Snakes!"

III. CHORUS - "I Should"

Part II

IV. PAVANE - "Are You the One"

V. SALOME'S DANCE - "I Swear"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1XkLpoazj8

VI. BLUES TROPE - "Ah, Marvellous!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vntKJtS8-es

VII. DIRGE - "Bring Me the Head"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTdBaWEmcSI

San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Sunday, August 1, 1999

Job: A Masque, Op. 79

Op. 79 JOB: A MASQUE

(August 1, 1999) for Voices and Orchestra

[or Pierrot Ensemble]

SCENE I - INTRODUCTION - "What you been doing?"

(Duet - God and Satan)

SCENE II - DIRGE - "We were plowing"

(Quartet - 4 Messengers / Solo - Job)

SCENE III - DOUBLE - "Where have you been?"

(Duet - God and Satan)

SCENE IV - CANON - "Curse God and die"

(Duet - Job and Job's Wife)

SCENE V - MOTET - "Place a curse"

(Aria - Job)

SCENE VI - DIALOGUE I - "Man is born to suffer"

(Sextet I)

SCENE VII - DIALOGUE II - "Empty words"

(Sextet II)

SCENE VIII - DIALOGUE III - "Is there someone"

(Sextet III)

SCENE IX - MONOLOGUE - "I am still young"

(Aria - Elihu)

SCENE X - WHIRLWIND - "Who are you"

(Arioso - Quintet - Arioso)

SCENE XI - EPILOGUE - "Lord blessed the last part"

(Aria - Satan)

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Job:_A_Masque%2C_Op.79_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performances:

June 17, 19, 2010

Fresh Voices X

God / Bildad the Shuhite - Nanette McGuinness

Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Messenger IV - Crystal Philippi

Job - Marilyn Pratt

Job's Wife / Messenger III - Kate Bautch

Eliphaz the Temanite / Messenger II - Sarita Cannon

Elihu / Messenger I - Heather Klein

Director - Mark Alburger

Music Director - Martha Stoddard

Goat Hall Productions

Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley, CA

November 13, 2010

God / Bildad the Shuhite - Harriet March Page

Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Messenger IV - Maria Mikheyenko

Job - Marilyn Pratt

Job's Wife / Messenger III - Kate Bautch

Eliphaz the Temanite / Messenger II - Suzanna Mizell

Elihu / Messenger I - Heather Klein

Director - Mark Alburger

Music Director - Martha Stoddard

Goat Hall Productions Pierrot Ensemble
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

December 1, 2017

Goat Hall 30th Anniversary Celebration

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

Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

September 28, 2019

The Opus Project presents 79-80: Fate Knocking at the Floor

The Opus Project Chamber Orchestra

Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

Program Note:

Mark Alburger's JOB: A MASQUE is born to suffer in comparison with its troping sources, including Ralph Vaughan Williams's Job: A Masque for Dancing (which serves as overall framework) with sparks flying upwards into Alban Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra and Wozzeck, George Crumb's Makrokosmos (Volume III: Music for a Summer Evening), Alburger's Animal Farm, and Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, plus related trials from Philip Glass and 60's rock.

Images / Music / Video:

Op. 79 JOB: A MASQUE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPHQGytjPRE&list=PL376F718839ABC13E&index=33