SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
presents
Bring 'Em Back Alive
Rehearsal I
7pm, Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Lakeside Presbyterian Church
San Francisco, CA
7:00 Hussein Al-Nasrawi (b. 1991)
A Day at the California Academy of Sciences (2022) (5)
0000 0000 Pf 11110 (5)
7:15 Lisa Scola Prosek (b. 1958)
The Bells of Santo Stefano (2022) (7')
1111 0000 2Sop 2Perc 10111 (12)
Soave Luna
7:45 John Beeman (b. 1954)
Rogue River Canyon (1995) (7')
1111 1000 3Perc 11111 (13)
III. Day's End to Canyon Night
IV. Deep Canyon: Pot Boilers, Suckholes, Whirlpools
8:15 Stardust (b. 1962)
Wiggle (2022) (11')
1111 1000 3Perc 2111 (13)
Cold
Pastoral
Calliope
Nuserty Fanfare
Wiggle Bit
You Can Do Whatever You Want...
Pastoral Encore
8:45 Break
9:00 Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022), from
The Decameron: Fifth Day (8')
1111 1100 Pf 2Perc 11111 (14)
Novel III. Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella,
and encounters a gang of robbers
Novel VII. Pietro Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante,
daughter of Messer Amerigo, his lord,
gets her with child,
and is sentenced to the gallows
Novel VIII. Nastagio degli Onesti,
loving a damsel of the Traversari family,
by lavish expenditure gains not her love
9:30 Michael Cooke (b. 1970)
Symphony No. 4 ("Deconstructing Beethoven") (2019) (8')
2111 1000 3Perc 11111 (14)
II. Allegretto
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Amazing to be rehearsing in person w/ group for the first time in 2 years!
The day
beginning
with
printing / binding score at local Staples,
then
eventually
down
80
and
680
to
pick
up
Hussein.
Off
again
via
24,
towards
and
over
the
Bay
Bridge
into
the
City,
280
South,
Skyline,
Sloat,
ending up in the fog --
on the 85th day of summer, high up 3 for a new record for the year at 105 (3rd 100+ of the season)
Fairfield, 104
Pleasant Hill, 99
San Francisco, 68
Today also marks the first sighting of
Halley's Comet in 208 BC, as well as editing pages 19-20 of
Viola Concerto ("Felicitations"), Op. 119 (2004)
I. Allegro moderato
creating a cover and
complete Works page for
Bassoon Concerto ("Grandmother"), Op. 120 (2004),
additional labors (pg 2) for edition of
Jeremiah (Lamentations), Op. 278 (2018)
VIII. Bones / Balm
and more text of
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
May 24-25
4am She Has a Pet Chimpanzee in Her Office, to Help with the Music...
5am Veiled Middle-Eastern Refugees Sitting on Floor Beyond GauzyTransparent /
Translucent Curtains... Eliza Saying Bizarre But Sweet Things... Staying at Erling's; I Return,
Bed Unmade, with Floor Items Exposed, But Nothing Too Problematic, We Go Downstairs to
a Huge Lower Basement, Second-Kitchen-In-Progress Area... I Get Bored at One Point and Go
to Sleep [I'm Never Bored at Erling's...]... Lower Level Has a Giant Raised Box-Like Floor
Area...
9am Deliver Varied Elaborate Lectures on J.S. Bach, F.J. Haydn, Etc, Using Varariant Versions,
Elaborate Stagings, Orchestras -- Invite Him Back for More?!...
10am Trying to Get Ready for Trip after Concert, People Blocking a Well-Used Passage,
Have to Move Them, Someone Moves Suitcase to Other Room, Mom Insists on Making
Waffles, Hard to Fit in Everything, Strange Items, at Last Minute, Phone / Watch Gone,
What Time Is It?, Discover Someone Else's Lost Phone Where Mine Should Be... Not Good!....
Suitcase Is Giant w/ Many Useless Items...
The sad news of yesterday reaches the paper of today,
the last in a string of such, read off and on since college days...