Palms to Pines Proposal, Op. 353

Op. 353 PALMS TO PINES PROPOSAL (August 30, 2021)
     An Ascent of Harriet March Motifs, including
     Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
          Night on Bald Mountain (1867)
     Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
          Songs of the Wayfarer (1885)
               IV. The Eyes of My Beloved
     Franz Lehar (1870-1948)
          The New Moon (1928)
               VII. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
     Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
          The Threepenny Opera (1928)
               X. First Threepenny Finale
          Happy End (1929)
                XI. Surabaya Johnny
     Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
          Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104 (2001)
                XXIII. Brunnhilde


     Score:

     Performance:

          January 10, 2022
               The Wedding of Mark and Harriet
               Zoom Ceremony Everywhere!


     Recording / Video:

          https://youtu.be/g830e4E3jRY

Backyard Theology, Op. 352

Op. 352 BACKYARD THEOLOGY (August 7, 2021)
     Sound Collage overlain on a video of
        Don, Ursula, Kaitlyn, and Jenna Gosnay utilizing
          Gregorian Chant
                Credo I (I Believe)
          Thomas of Celano (1185-1265)
                Dies Irae (Day of Wrath, 1215)
                     Recordare (Remember)
          Josquin des Pres (1450-1521)
                El Grillo (The Cricket, 1500)
                      Give the Cricket a Drink
          Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
                La Traviata (1851)
                       Act I Bridisi (Drinking Song)
           Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
               Gloria (1960):
                       I. Gloria
           Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
                Quartet for the End of Time (1991)
                       VII. Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus
                       (Praise to the Eternity of Jesus)
           Miles Davis (1928-1991)
                Kind of Blue (1959)
                       I. So What
            George Crumb (b. 1929)
                Black Angels (1970)
                      VII. God Music
            Alan Jaffe (1935-1987) /
                 Preservation Hall Jazz Band (1960)
                      That's It (2013)
            John Lennon 1940-1980)
                 Isolation (1970),
                 performed by Sean Lennon Ono (b. 1975)
            George Lucas (b. 1944)
                 Star Wars (1977)
                       Impressive, Most Impressive
            Van Morrison (b. 1945)
                  Gloria (1964),
                  performed by Patti Smith (b. 1948)
            Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
                  Excitable Boy (1978):
                       IV. Werewolves of London
            Stephen Schwartz (b. 1948)
                 Godspell (1971)
                       Act II Finale (Crucifixion)
             Tom Petty (1950-2017)
                   Full Moon Fever (1989)
                        I. Free Fallin'
              Malcolm Young (1953-2017) / AC/DC (1973)
                   Dirty Deeds Done Cheap (1978)
                         IV. Problem Child
              Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
                    Job: A Masque, Op. 79 (1999)
                          I. What You Been Doing?
              Lin-Manuel Miranda (b. 1980)
                     Hamilton (2015)
                          Right Hand Man
              Alicia Keys (b. 1981)
                     Alicia (2020)
                           XV. Good Job
              Father John Mistoy (b. 1981)
                    I Love You, Honey Bear (2015)
                           X. Holy Shit
              Avril Lavigne (b. 1984)
                    Goodbye Lullaby (2011)
                           II. What the Hell


     Performance:

          November 13, 2021
               San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents
               Bright Ideas
               Zoom Concert Everywhere!


     Video:

Coast Range Summer, Op. 351

Op. 351 COAST RANGE SUMMER (July 24, 2021)
     12-Tone Row of CM7, Dm,
          C# Black Note Pentatonic Cluster -
          Variations For Orchestra


     Score:

     Performance:

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

Symphonic First Greeting Preludes, Op. 350

Op. 350 SYMPHONIC FIRST GREETING PRELUDES (May 9, 2021)
     Stylistic Birthday Variations on First Symphonies for Orchestra
          I. F.J. Haydn
          II. W.A. Mozart
          III. Ludwig van Beethoven
          IV. Franz Schubert
          V. Felix Mendelssohn
          VI. Robert Schumann
          VII. Johannes Brahms
          VIII. Alexander Borodin
          IX. Camille Saint-Saens
          X. Peter Tchaikovsky
          XI. Antonin Dvorak
          XII Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
          XIII. Edward Elgar
          XIV. Gustav Mahler
          XV. Jan Sibelius
          XVI. Alexander Scriabin
          XVII. Ralph Vaughan Williams
          XVIII. Sergei Rachmaninoff
          XIX. Charles Ives
          XX. Sergei Prokofiev
          XXI. Arthur Honneger
          XXII. Dmitri Shostakovich
          XXIII. Samuel Barber
          XXIV. Alan Hovhaness
          XXV. Mark Alburger


     Score:

Pandemische Absage von Konzerten, Op. 349

Op. 349 PANDEMISCHE ABSAGE VON KONZERTEN (May 8, 2021)
     Canonic Soggetta Cavato for Orchestra


     Score:

https://imslp.org/wiki/Pandemische_Absage_von_Konzerten,_Op.349_(Alburger,_Mark)


     Performance:

          June 12, 2012
               The Opus Project presents Opus 89
               Zoom Concert Everywhere!

Bartok Orchestrations, Op. 348

Op 348 BARTOK ORCHESTRATIONS (March 16, 2021)
     Piano Sonata (1926): I-III


Score:

Performance:

     April 24, 2021
          The Opus Project presents
          Opus 88: Keys to the Universe
          Zoom Concert Everywhere!

Scarlatti Orchestrations, Op. 347

OP. 347 [D.] SCARLATTI ORCHESTRATIONS (March 15, 2021)
     Sonata in G (Menuetto), K. 80
     Sonata in F (Minuet), K. 94


     Score:

Performances:

          February 29, 2019
               The Opus Project presents Opus 83-84:
                    Mythos in Tempore Belli
               Diablo Valley College Music Building
               Pleasant Hill, CA

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


Video Recording:

     [Domenico] Scarlatti [1685-1757] Orchestrations, Op. 347 (2021)

          Keyboard Sonata in G (Menuetto), Kirkpatrick 80 (c. 1738)

[Orchestrated generally in the spirit of Dmitri Shostakovich's Two Scarlatti Pieces, Op. 17 (1928), and more specifically inspired by Igor Stravinsky's Octet (1923): I. Sinfonia - Lento]

https://youtu.be/9wkCoWrD-cI