SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director
presents
Bring 'Em Back Alive
Rehearsal II - 7pm, Friday, May 27, 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 Stardust (b. 1962)
Wiggle (2022) (11')
1111 1000 2Perc 2111 (12)
Cold
Pastorale
Calliope
Nursery Fanfare
Wiggle Bit
You Can Do Whatever You Want...
Pastorale Encore
Finale
8:15 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
8:45 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
Another fine
rehearsal with the group,
proceeded
by
heading
southwestward
down
80
and
680 --
a
panorama
of
possibilities,
presently
picking
up
one
of
our
pianist-
percussionists,
and
proceeding
with
aplomb:
24,
Bay
Bridge,
280
to the church...
on the 85th day of summer,
high up 3 to 84
Fairfield, 74
Pleasant Hill, 71
San Francisco, 61
this the King John (1166-1216) crowning (1199, above signing Magna Carta the year before his death), as well as the birthdays of
Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876),
Georges Rouault (1871-1958 -- Self-Portrait, 1921),
Christopher Lee (1922-2015 -- Lord of the Rings, 2001),
Thea Musgrave (b. 1928),
Harlan Ellison (1934-2018), and
Lee Meriwether (b. 1935 -- with Garce Lee Whitney, 1930-1015, in Batman, 1966).
The time also marked by editing pages 23-24 of
Viola Concerto ("Felicitations"), Op. 119 (2004)
I. Allegro moderato
creating title and
Complete Works pages for
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004),
continuing edition (pg 4) re
Jeremiah (Lamentations), Op. 278 (2018)
VIII. Bones / Balm
and doing what comes, evidently, naturally, as to
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
May 26-27
2pm Going Up Bernal Heights for Illicit Ends...Waiting in Line of Traffic Before Factory Stores
Northwest on Nut Tree -- Back-Hoe Construction Vehicle Pulls Into Lane From Curb
Violently, Causing Wake-Up
3am Wake Up Dizzy and Diagonal (Like the Sideway Shots in Citizen Kane and Batman)
4am Have You Emailed the Pastorale Piece? Thought I Had, But Now I Had Not, Mom...
Harriet an Absolute Vision of Comparison, Desirability, and Sexiness...
The Music for Sunday Sent and Live...
7pm High Mountains Over Playground...
10am Big Protest at Foggy Lakeside Prebyterian Church, after Parking a Miniaturized,
Foot-Long-Or-So Red Car on Street Behind -- People in T-Shirts, Emblazoned w/
"T-Shirts Shall Not Be Worn"...
some of all-o-above against
Charles Ives (1874-1954) - Variations on America (1891, orch. 1962, William Schuman, 1910-1992),
Franz Scmidt (1874-1939) - Symphony No. 3 in A Major (1928), and
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1982) - Partita (1928).
Meanwhile the tragedy of Uvalde
will
never
cease
for
those
caught up
in it.