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Sat, Mar 18 2017 8:00 PM


The Opus Project Presents Opus 51: Questionable Practices

The Future… it’s all so uncertain. Join us for a program of unanswered questions in uncertain times… With flutist Alan Kingsley, pianist Feona Lee Jones, violinist Kristen Kline, and The Opus Project String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Orchestra. An unprecedented concert series in place and time!

A program of excerpts and short works, drawn from…

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Rondo in C Major, Op. 51, No. 1 (1797)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) The Rose and the Gardener, Op. 51, No. 1 (1902)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) Variations on a Polish Popular Theme, Op. 51 (1901)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) The Kingdom, Op. 51 (1906)
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) Woodland Sketches: To a Wild Rose, Op. 51, No. 1 (1896)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Piano Quintet, Op. 51 (1900)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Dramatic Poem, Op. 51 (1910)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Orchestral Song, Op. 51, No. 1 (1903)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Small Prelude, Op. 51 (1929)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Sarabande (Elegie No. 5 – Study on Dr. Faust), Op. 51, No. 1 (1919)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Ich Sagte Nicht, Op. 51, No. 1 (1903)
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) String Quartet No. 1, Op. 51 (1913)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Piano Study, Op. 51, No. 1 (1942)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Andante for Flute and Piano, Op. 51, No. 1 (1934)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Piano Quintet in Three Parts, Op. 51 (1919)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Fantasy Piece from First Suite, Op. 51 (1926)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Divertimento, Op. 51 (1913)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Prelude – Lugubre, Op. 51 (1906)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Sancta Civitas (1925)
Max Reger (1873-1916) The Moon Glows over the Garden, Op. 51, No. 1 (1900)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) A Choral Fantasia, Op. 51 (1930)
Charles Ives (1874-1954) The Unanswered Question (1908)
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Album Leaf for Cello and Piano, Op. 51, No. 1 (1910)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Piano Aphorism, Op. 51, No. 1 (1905)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Octet (1923)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Prince Potemkin, Op 51 (1925)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) The Fan, Op. 51 (1929)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Petit Air, Op. 51, No. 1 (1918)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Piano Concerto (“Aubade”) (1929)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Guitar Sonatina, Op. 51 (1956)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Easy Variations, Volume 2, Op. 51 (1952)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Abraham and Isaac (Canticle II), Op. 51 (1952)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Iubilum, Op. 51 (1981)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Tam O’Shanter, Op. 51 (1955)
Claude Ballif (1924-2004) Percussion Symphony (“Timbres e Postes”), Op. 51 (1972)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Easter Dawning (1992)
Alexander Goehr (b. 1932) Sing Ariel, Op. 51 (1990)
Steve Reich (b. 1936) WTC 9/11 (2010)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) The Olympian – Lighting of the Torch (1984)
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010) Flute Concerto, Op. 51 (1991)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) San Rafael News, Op. 51 (1995): IV. Death Catch

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