The Little Prince, Op. 89

Op. 89 LE PETIT PRINCE (THE LITTLE PRINCE)
(August 18, 2000)
(after Antoine de St. Exupery)
I. Moonlight
II. Changeling
III. Dandy Situation
IV. Pale Asteroid
V. Chopping Weeds
VI. Starset
VII. Spiky Flower
VIII. Day
IX. Goodbye
X. Royal March
XI. Red Face
XII. Galleon Song
XIII. Figurehead
XIV. Cross Purposes
XV. Geography
XVI. Grand Mariner
XVII. Parade
XVIII. Pollen
XIX. Serenade
XX. Garden
XXI. Old Friends
XXII. Engine
XXIII. Elixir
XXIV. Sleep
XXV. Fountain
XXVI. Serpent
XXVII. Falling
XXVIII. Epilogue


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Small_Satrap%2C_Op.89_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


Performances:

April 13-15; 20-22; 27-29, 2001
NEW MUSIC THEATRE Ensemble
Festival of New Plays and Operas, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA
First Prize for Best New Work, First Prize for Best Actress, Third Prize for Best Direction

July 20-22, 2001
Fresh Voices II Festival, Goat Hall Productions
Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA
ST. EXUPERY - David Saslav
THE LITTLE PRINCE - Heather Gavin
ASTRONOMER - Miriam Lewis
FLOWER, SERPENT - Deirdre Lobo
KING, FOX - Mark Alburger
ENGINEER - Janet Lohr
WATER PILL SALESMAN - John Thorne
DIRECTOR - Harriet March Page

November 23-25; 30; December 1-2; 7-9, 2001
NEW MUSIC THEATRE Ensemble
Dominican University Players, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA

June 12, 2021 

The Opus Project presents Opus 89 Online:
Brave New Order
Zoom Concert Everywhere!

Recording:

The Little Prince
(Niew Music, 2008)
I. Moonlight
II. Changeling
III. Dandy Situation
IV. Pale Asteroid
V. Chopping Weeds
VI. Starset
VII. Spiky Flower
VIII. Day
IX. Goodbye
X. Royal March
XI. Red Face
XII. Galleon Song
XIII. Figurehead
XIV. Cross Purposes
XV. Geography
XVI. Grand Mariner
XVII. Parade
XVIII. Pollen
XIX. Serenade
XX. Garden
XXI. Old Friends
XXII. Engine
XXIII. Elixir
XXIV. Sleep
XXV. Fountain
XXVI. Serpent
XXVII. Falling
XXVIII. Epilogue

Antigone, Op. 88

 [Antigone: X. QUARTET - "Come on, now" Alburger, L. Page, Saslav - 8/3/01]

 Op. 88 ANTIGONE (August 10, 2000)
(after Jean Anouilh and Sophocles)
Tragic Opera for Voices and Orchestra
(2222 2231 2perc, pf, strings)
OVERTURE I. CHORUS - "Here we are"
II. DUET - "Where have you been"
III. TRIO - "Antigone / Now you're both"
IV. DUET - "Aren't you well"
V. DUET - "Where is your pain"
VI. DUET - "Haemon"
VIa. ARIA - "You swore"
VII. ARIA - "I can't sleep"
VIII. DUET - "It's like this"
IX. CHORUS - "The spring is wound"
X. QUARTET - "Come on, now"
XI. TRIO - "What is this"
XII. ARIA - "The pride of Oedipus"
XIII. DUET - "Where are you going"
XIV. DUET - "I shall save you yet"
XV. ARIA - "You think you knew"
XVI. DUET - "Antigone / You, too"
XVII. SEPTET - "Take her away"
XVIII. DUET - "It's you"
XIX. ARIA - "News to break your heart"
XX. SEXTET - "I've had them laid"
XXI. CHORUS - "There we are"


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Antigone%2C_Op.88_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


Program Note:

ANTIGONE (libretto after Jean Anouilh and Sophocles) is a "grid" opera based on W.A. Mozart's The Magic Flute, from which is taken form (often including exact number of measures, tempo markings, and keys), but little content. Much of the music was written in the spirit of the title character: that of rebellion -- major keys become minor, very slow tempi become very fast, stolid rhythms become almost irrationally syncopated. The opera also alludes to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten, 50's rock, J.S. Bach's Cantata No. 140 ("Wachet Auf"), Ancient Greek music, 70's pop, Arthur Sullivan, Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 3, the Beach Boys, John Barry's Dances With Wolves, Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Ebony Concerto, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and Aida, Meredith Willson's The Music Man, Alburger's Sonata for Oboe, Piano, and Percussion, and Balinese gamelan music.


Performances:

January 27, 2001
NEW MUSIC THEATRE Ensemble
 Z Space, San Francisco, CA
Antigone - Letitia Page
Creon - Richard Mix
Ismene / Nurse - Harriet March Page
Guard - Mark Alburger
Piano - Melissa Smith

March 9, 2001
NEW MUSIC THEATRE Ensemble
College Music Society, San Francisco Conservatory, CA
Antigone - Letitia Page
Ismene / Nurse - Harriet March Page
Creon / Guard - Mark Alburger
Piano - Melissa Smith

March 10 , 2001
NEW MUSIC THEATRE Ensemble
National Association of Composers, Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA
Antigone - Letitia Page
Ismene / Nurse - Harriet March Page
Creon / Guard - Mark Alburger
Piano - Melissa Smith


August 3-5, 2001 
Fresh Voices II Festival 
Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA
Antigone - Letitia Page
Creon - Micah Epps
Haemon / Messenger / Guard II - David Saslav
Ismene - Harriet March Page
Nurse - Miriam Lewis
Messenger / Guard I - Robert Benda
Guard III - Mark Alburger
Page - John Thorn
Eurydice - Sharon Walters
Director - Harriet March Page
Music Director - Mark Alburger
New Music Pierrot Ensemble

[I. CHORUS - "Here we are" Lewis, L. Page, Walters, H. Page, Benda, Saslav]

[II. DUET - "Where have you been" Walters, L. Page, Lewis]

[V. DUET - "Where is your pain" Lewis, L. Page]

[VI. DUET - "Haemon" L. Page, Saslav]

[VII. ARIA - "I can't sleep" Walters, H. Page, L. Page]

[IX. CHORUS - "The spring is wound" Lewis, H. Page, Walters, L. Page, Saslav, Benda, Epps, Thorn, Alburger]

[X. QUARTET - "Come on, now" [Alburger, L. Page, Saslav]

[XIV. DUET - "I shall save you yet" Thorn, Epps, L. Page]

April 5, 2003
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA
OVERTURE

October 3, 2003
Phillip Almquist, Bass Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
XII. ARIA - "The Pride of Oedipus"

April 20, 2007 
Halfway Mark 
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA
Antigone - Eliza O'Malley
Guards - David Chavez, Karl Coryat, William Loney, Christopher Lujan, Mark Alburger
X. QUARTET - "Come on, now"


[O'Malley, Henry]

April 19, 2008 The Red Horse 
Eliza O'Malley, Harriet March Page, Beth Henry
St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco, CA
Antigone - Eliza O'Malley
Ismene - Elizabeth Henry
Nurse - Harriet March Page
Piano - Mark Alburger

[V. DUET - "Where Is Your Pain" O'Malley, Page]


[Mikheyenko, Lahm]

November 7-9, 2008 
Opera Apocalypse! 
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera
The Next Stage, San Francisco, CA
Antigone - Eliza O'Malley (11/7 and 9)
Antigone - Letitia C. Page (11/8)
Creon - Micah Epps
Haemon / Messenger / Guard III - Michael Desnoyers
Ismene - Kimberly Anderman
Nurse / Eurydice - Meghan Dibble
Guard I - Maria Mikheyenko
Guard II - Erin Lahm
Antigone's Handmaid - Alix Jerinic
Ismene's Handmaid / Antigone Dancer - Dalyte Kodzis
Oedipus / Haemon Dancer - William Loney
Page - Lisa McHenry
The Puppetmaster - Terence Bennan
The Fixer - Adam Broner
Artistic Director - Harriet March Page
Music Director - Mark Alburger
Piano - Keisuke Nakagoshi
Choreographer - William Loney

Dress Rehearsal 11/6/08

[I. CHORUS - "Here we are" Dibble, O'Malley, Jerinic, Kodzis, Lahm, Mikheyenko, Desnoyers, Bennan, Epps, Broner, McHenry]

[V. DUET - "Where is your pain" Jerinic, Kodzis, Anderman, Dibble]

[VI. DUET - "Haemon" O'Malley, Desnoyers]

[VII. ARIA - "I can't sleep" Dibble, Jerinic, O'Malley, Anderman]

[Jerinic, Kodzis, Page, Anderman, Lahm, Mikheyenko]

[VIII. DUET - "It's like this" Mikheyenko, Bennan, Epps, Broner, Loney]

[XI. TRIO - "What is this" Mikheyenko, O'Malley, Bennan, Epps, Broner, Loney]

[IX. CHORUS - "The spring is wound" Dibble, Anderman, Mikheyenko, Jerinic, Kodzis, Desnoyers, Epps, Loney]

[Mikheyenko, Broner, Bennan, Epps, Desnoyers, O'Malley, Anderman, Dibble, Jerinic, Kodzis]

[Bennan, Broner, Mikheyenko, Desnoyers, Anderman, O'Malley, Dibble, Jerinic, Kodzis, Loney]

[XVI. DUET - "Antigone / You, too" Kodzis, Anderman, Bennan, Epps, O'Malley, Broner, Jerinic, Loney]

XVIII. DUET - "It's you" Lahm, O'Malley, Mikheyenko]

XIX. ARIA - "News to break your heart" [Mikheyenko, Kodzis, Epps, Bennan, Desnoyers, Loney]

[Lahm, Mikheyenko, Epps, Bennan, Desnoyers, Broner, McHenry]

[Loney, Mikheyenko, Kodzis, Bennan, Epps, Desnoyers]

[Lahm, Mikheyenko, Loney, Kodzis, Epps, Bennan, Desnoyers, Broner, McHenry]

[Mikheyenko, Loney, Epps, Kodzis, Broner, Desnoyers]

[Lahm, Mikheyenko, Loney, Kodzis, Epps, Bennan, Broner, Desnoyers, McHenry]

[XX. SEXTET - "I've had them laid" Epps, McHenry, Broner]

[Lahm, Mikheyenko, McHenry, Epps, Broner]

[XXI. CHORUS - "There we are" Dibble, Page, Anderman, Jerinic, Kodzis, Lahm, Mikheyenko, Desnoyers, Bennan, Epps]

[Kodzis, Lahm, Mikheyenko, Desnoyers, Bennan, Epps, Broner, McHenry, Loney]

November 14, 16, 2008

Goat Hall Productions

Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA

November 15, 2008

Goat Hall Productions

Temple Emanuel Lutheran Church, San Francisco, CA

April 24, 2021

The Opus Project presents Opus 88 Keys to the Universe!

Zoom Concert Everywhere!

Recording / Video:

ANTIGONE (New Music, 2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OTnGZmt6F8&list=PL3FACBB320E94DCA7

OVERTURE (Abbreviated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OTnGZmt6F8

 I. CHORUS - "Here we are"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLWw0kafaXo

II. DUET - "Where have you been"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLWw0kafaXo

III. TRIO - "Antigone / Now you're both"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OKwDLKkZHc

IV. DUET - "Aren't you well"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5hHsXC-Czk

V. DUET - "Where is your pain" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaW9Mw3X7aA
 
VI. DUET - "Haemon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_ZLmp4Ck4

VIa. ARIA - "You swore"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLcFWNQl49A

VII. ARIA - "I can't sleep"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meu-Zd63ILk&t=5s

VIII. DUET - "It's like this"

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

IX. CHORUS - "The spring is wound"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKxp4i3Onr8&t=1s

X. QUARTET - "Come on, now"  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BUAUkqw46E

XI. TRIO - "What is this"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mBkKK64Ldw

XII. ARIA - "The pride of Oedipus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3UP6ErSsto

XIII. DUET - "Where are you going"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbvzM0RxlM

XIV. DUET - "I shall save you yet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp7GSIx9fN8

XV. ARIA - "You think you knew"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZozzaBsf3o

XVI. DUET - "Antigone / You, too"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uqnZAK3SX4

XVII. SEPTET - "Take her away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwwkyxLdi94

XVIII. DUET - "It's you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxb3hN12YE

XIX. ARIA - "News to break your heart"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6y81JeHQ-s

XX. SEXTET - "I've had them laid"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPJNypZ3fI

XXI. CHORUS - "There we are"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaD1SGFmIB8

Violin Concerto ("Ticklish"), Op. 87

Op. 87 VIOLIN CONCERTO ("Ticklish")
(May 14, 2000)
I. Allegro aperto
II. Adagio
III. Tempo di Menuetto / Allegro


Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_'Ticklish'%2C_Op.87_(Alburger%2C_Mark)


Performances:

February 20, 22, 2008
Tritone Orchestra
Music Technology Center, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA

March 13, 2021 

The Opus Project presents Opus 87 Online: Angles and Divots

Zoom Concert Everywhere!

Kristen Kline, Violin

Megan Cullen, Piano

Recording:


ANGLES AND DIVOTS
(New Music, 2008)
VIOLIN CONCERTO
I. Allegro aperto
II. Adagio
III. Tempo di Menuetto / Allegro

Magnificat, Op. 86

Op. 86 MAGNIFICAT (April 1, 2000) 

For Voices and Orchestra
I. Magnificat anima mea  

II. Et exultavit  

III. Quia respexit  

IV. Omnes generationes 

V. Quia fecit mihi magna 

VI. Et misericordia 

VII. Fecit potentiam 

VIII. Deposuit 

IX. Esurientes 

X. Suscepit Israel 

XI. Sicut locutus est 

XII. Gloria Patri

Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Magnificat%2C_Op.86_(Alburger%2C_Mark)

Performance:

January 30, 2021 

The Opus Project presents Opus 86 Online: Totally...!

Zoom Meeting Everywhere!

Recording / Video:

ANGLES AND DIVOTS (Complete Works, Volume 29)

Magnificat, Op. 86 (2000)
I. Magnificat anima mea  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zYIO0XSMiM

II. Et exultavit  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOidTl-olqo

III. Quia respexit  

IV. Omnes generationes 

V. Quia fecit mihi magna 

VI. Et misericordia 

VII. Fecit potentiam 

VIII. Deposuit 

IX. Esurientes 

X. Suscepit Israel 

XI. Sicut locutus est 

XII. Gloria Patri

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)

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

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)