SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents "How Suite It Is" at Old First Concerts
Saturday, September 15th, 2007 at 8 pm

Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109

 
PROGRAM
 

 

Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey and Martha Stoddard conducting

Beeri Moalem

Desires    

Clare Twohy Music for flute, clarinets, bassoon and strings  

John Beeman

Free Form    

Michael Cooke , Alto Saxophone

Lisa Scola Prosek

Music from the Opera “Trap Door”   

I.
II.

David Graves

Life Is Like That     

intermission

 

Mark Alburger

The Pied Piper Suite: Concertino for Orchestra   

I. Air ("Into the Street")
II. Menuet ("You Should Have Heard")
III. Badinerie ("No Trifling")
IV. Pavanne ("Once More")
V. Rondeau ("The Wonderful Music")

Mark Alburger, spoken word
Erling Wold

Mordake Suite     

Loren Jones

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

 9.  Playland - 1920’s
11. North Beach - 1950’s
 8.  Earthquake and Fire - 1906

Alex Lu, piano
Enzo Garcia, accordion and saw

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PERFORMERS
 
 

Flute
Bruce Salvisberg
Harry Bernstein

Oboe
Philip Freihofner

Clarinet (Bass Clarinet**)
Rachel Condry **

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

French Horn
Cathleen Torres


Trumpet
Rob Wilkinson

Piano
Lisa Scola Prosek
Davide Verotta


Synthesizer
David Graves
Erling Wold


Harp
Esther Lee


Percussion
Victor Flaviani
Anne Szabla



Violin I
Monika Gruber
Clare Twohy

Violin II
Hande Erdem

Viola
Beeri Moalem

Cello
Farley Pearce
Beth Snellings

Bass
John Beeman