SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents "A Springtime Romance" at Old First Church
Saturday, March 10th, 2007 at 8 pm
Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109

 
PROGRAM
  

 
 

Mark Alburger and Alexis Alrich conducting

Katrina Wreede

Childrens' Garden    

Foreign Lands
Time to Rise
The Wind
Unseen Playmate
Whole Duty of Children

Lisa Scola Prosek, Soprano
Lisa Scola Prosek Wedding Scene: From the opera "Belfagor"     

2. Le Tue Mani (Your Hands)  
1. Quello lí chi é? (Who is that guy?)  

Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano
Eliza O'Malley, Soprano
Gar Wai Lee, Alto
Aurelio Viscarra, Tenor
Micah Epps, Bass Baritone

Loren Jones

Dancing On the Brink of the World San Francisco - 1600 to The Present  

5. The Barbary Coast March - 1860’s
6. Midwinter Exposition - 1894
7. The Outside Lands - 1900

Enzo Garcia, banjo

intermission
 

Alexis Alrich

Marimba Concerto     

Movement II  

Matthew Cannon, Marimba
Erling Wold

"Baron Ochs"   

1. The night before the festival   
2. Mohammed has a vision  
3. Confusion; the Baron arrives; all gather; Mohammed speaks  
4. A moment passes  
5. Valzaccho returns to the forest   

Christopher Carrasco

The Mind Suite    

I. The March of Lucidity
II. Final Dance of the Decaying Mind
III. A Closer Look

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PERFORMERS
  
 

Flute
Bruce Salvisberg
Harry Bernstein

Oboe
Philip Freihofner

Clarinet (Bass Clarinet**)
Rachel Condry
Michael Cooke **

Bassoon (ContraBassoon**)
Michael Cooke
Michael Garvey
Lori Garvey**

French Horn
Brian Holmes

Trumpet
Ken Olson

Euphonium
Christopher Carrasco

Piano
Alexis Alrich
Lisa Prosek

Synthesizer
Baron Wold

Harp
Esther Lee

Percussion
Victor Flaviani
Anne Szabla

Violin I
Monika Gruber

Violin II
Hande Erdem
Lucy Thrupp

Viola
Katie Wreede

Cello
Beth Snellings
Adrienne Chum

Bass
Ken Miller