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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents "Leaving a Mark"
A Memorial Concert for Dr. Mark Alburger
Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 8 pm

Lakeside Presbyterian Church
201 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco, CA

PROGRAM

 

Mark Alburger

Symphony No. 1 in C Major   notes   video

I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

Dr. Mark Alburger (1957-2023, Upper Darby, PA) was an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer with postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He was the Music Director of SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, SF Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; and a Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger had composed 399 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue was available from New Music. (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com)

Mark Alburger

Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290     notes   video

I. Bourgeois Ouverture (Comedie-Ballet)
II. Allemande Left-Right (Brothers' Joy)
III. Au Courante (Sweet Expectation, Running)
IV. Varese Sarabande (Icy Folia)
V. Unkempt Gigue (Images from the Stark Land)

Dr. Mark Alburger (1957-2023, Upper Darby, PA) was an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer with postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He was the Music Director of SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, SF Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; and a Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger had composed 399 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue was available from New Music. (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com)

Mark Alburger

Cliff Variations   notes

Dr. Mark Alburger (1957-2023, Upper Darby, PA) was an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer with postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He was the Music Director of SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, SF Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; and a Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger had composed 399 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue was available from New Music. (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com)

Mark Alburger

The Pied Piper Suite: Concertino for Orchestra   Program Notes

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

John Kendall Bailey, spoken word

intermission
 

Dr. Mark Alburger (1957-2023, Upper Darby, PA) was an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer with postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He was the Music Director of SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, SF Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; and a Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger had composed 399 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue was available from New Music. (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com)

Mark Alburger

Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations
Part 1 In Cold Blood
  notes   video

I. Wasps
II. Flies
III. Spiders
IV. Crabs
V. Sharks
VI. Frogs
VII. Turtles
VIII. Snake

Megan Cullen, spoken word



Dr. Mark Alburger (1957-2023, Upper Darby, PA) was an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer with postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He was the Music Director of SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, SF Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; and a Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger had composed 399 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue was available from New Music. (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com)

Mark Alburger
Allan Crossman
Vance Maverick
Hussein Al-Nasrawi
John Beeman
Loren Jones
Michael Cooke

Variations on Overture to Antigone  (In Honor of Dr. Mark Alburger) video

I. Theme (by Mark Alburger) arr. Michael Cooke notes
II. Celebrating Mark Alburger notes
III. Antigone Changes notes
IV. Chopin Variation notes
V. Swingin’ Antigone notes
VI. Closer notes
VII. Through the Looking-Glass with Mark notes

Dr. Mark Alburger (1957-2023, Upper Darby, PA) was an award-winning, eclectic ASCAP composer with postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities. He was the Music Director of SF Composers Chamber Orchestra, SF Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions, and The Opus Project; Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music and New Music; Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Literature at Diablo Valley College; and a Musicologist for Grove Online and Grove Dictionary of American Music. His principal teachers were Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti (Swarthmore College, B.A.); Jules Langert (Dominican University, M.A.); Christopher Yavelow (Claremont University, Ph.D.); and Terry Riley. Dr. Alburger had composed 399 major works, including chamber music, concertos, oratorios, operas, song cycles, and symphonies. His complete catalogue was available from New Music. (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com)

Mark Alburger

Overture to "The Bald Soprano"   notes

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PERFORMERS
 

Flute / Piccolo *
Bruce Salvisberg
Diana Gomez *

Oboe
Phil Freihofner
Anthony Perry

Clarinet
Wen-Liang Chung

Alto Saxohpne
Michael Cooke

Bassoon / Contrabassoon *
Michael Cooke
Michael Garvey
Lori Garvey *


Horn
Bob Satterford
Alex Strachan
Megan Cullen

Trumpet
Rick Leder

Trombone
Greg Gomez
Scott Sterling

Piano
Davide Verotta
Hussein Al-Nasrawi

Percussion
Victor Flaviano
Vance Maverick


Violin I
Michael Long

Violin II
Kat Walsh

Viola
Harry Bernstein

Cello
Ariella Hyman
Aaron Urton

Bass
John Beeman