May 27 - Notable


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.