The Opus Project Presents Opus 48: Appeasement on Earth
A holiday gift box of music by 20th- and 21st-century composers who wrote an opus 48, and more! With pianist Feona Lee Jones, violinist Kristen Kline, and The Opus Project Orchestra. An unprecedented concert series in time and place!
Program (excerpts and short complete works)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Piece after the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Op. 48 (1900)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Pleading, Op. 48 (1908)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Chamber Sonata, Op. 48 (1927)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Les Fleurs du Mal, Op. 48 (1909)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Song, Op. 48 (1900)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Violin Prelude, Op. 48 (1923)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) The Liberated Queen, Op. 48 (1906)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Clarinet Concertino, Op. 48 (1918)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Song, Op. 48 (1901)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Fountain of Youth, Op. 48 (1941)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) A Glorious Day, Op. 48 (1932)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Selamik, Op. 48 (1906)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Four Piano Miniatures, Op. 48 (1911)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Prelude, Op. 48 (1905)
Alexander Gedike (1873-1957) March, Op. 48 (1936)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Epilogue, Op. 48 (1929)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) Symphony No. 4: I (1916)*
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Three Songs Op. 48 (1933)
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Piece for Piano Four-Hands, Op. 48 (1912)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Sinfonietta in A Major, Op. 48 (1929)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) L’Homme et son Desire, Op. 48 (1918)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Konzertmusik, Op. 48 (1930)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Billy the Kid (1938)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Violin Concerto, Op. 48 (1948)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)* Volochayev Days, Op. 48 (1937)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Lousadzak (Dawn), Op. 48 (1944)
John Cage (1912-1992) Prelude for Meditation (1944)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Lachrymae for Viola and Piano, Op. 48 (1937)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) San Fernando Hub, Op. 48 (1993)
*110th- and 100th-year anniversaries
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