February 20 - Return to Return to SFCCO

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Finally get around to printing the scores to Salome Suite and Pini di Surriento (have been conducting from print-out),



rendezvous with Harriet, and



we're off,



through



Lagoon



Valley and



Mountains, past



Sentinel Mountain and



Sulfur Springs Canyon,



up Lynch Grade, beyond



the prominence of St. John Mine, past



Vallejo's machinations,



approaching and




ascending the



Napa River Bridge,



over


the



marshes



and



farmlands



of



southern Sonoma



returning to the



return of Mt. Tamalpais,



Sears



Point,



and



Ring Mountain,




gathering with Lori Garvey,



Erling Wold, and the rest of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra for the soundcheck before Return to Return to Sorrento, in that playlist, familiar by now, played impressively in the ensuing concert, to wit:

SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

Return to Return to Sorrento

8pm, Saturday, February 20, 2010, Old First Church, San Francisco, CA
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Bailey, and Martha Stoddard, conducting

Program

Kit Ruscoe
Sorrento

Kit Ruscoe, Guitar

Phil Lockwood
A Blade of Grass



Philip Freihofner
Three Ways to Cook a Fish
II.

Philip Freihofner, Oboe

Lisa Scola Prosek
Sorrento Canzonetta




Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano



Martha Stoddard
Duo Concertante for Flute, Marimba, and Chamber Orchestra



Bruce Salvisberg, Flute
Anne Szabla, Marimba

Davide Verotta
Come back but where!? (Torna ma dove?!)

Erling Wold
per Margherita Eugenia

Mark Alburger
Salome Suite
I. Dance of the Seven Veils
II. Bring Me the Head
III. The Execution



David Graves



Tickertape

Intermission

Mark Alburger
Pini di Surriento
IV. Torna a Via Appia


John Bilotta
Quantum Mechanic



I. Overture
II. Prologue
III. Trio and Lament
IV. Scene
V. Duet
VI. Scene and Invocation
VII. Aria and Finale




Mark Alburger, Aesop
Elizabeth Henry, Mrs. Schroedinger
Justin Marsh, The Quantum Mechanic
Erin Lahm, 1st Quark Sister (Miss Up-Down)
Maria Mikheyenko, 2nd Quark Sister (Miss Charm-Strange)
Laryssa Sadoway, 3rd Quark Sister (Miss Top-Bottom)

Loren Jones
Arrivederci Sorrento

Loren Jones
The Lost Plateau
I. Prologue and Cave of Spiders
II. The River of No Return
III. Whirlpool of Death
IV. Raptors
V. Dance of the Skeletons
VI. The Winged Messenger

Return to return home, with second page composed for the doxology of Vespers: II. Psalm 109 Dixit Domine and publication-preparation page 10 of Psalm 7.

February 6 - Wild Blue Wonder

Page 22 of Vespers: II. Psalm 109: Dixit Dominus composed, the fifth page publication-preparation for Psalm 5. Harriet out to meet Roger McCracken, and


I follow soon after -- but, before that, we decide to find room on the Fresh Voices programs for



Job, so it's time to begin producing a Pierrot ensemble reducton of that full score,



stopping briefly on the way to Berkeley to re-sync the iPhone iPod with the required music.



over



the



Benicia Bridge in



rainbows,



through the Berkeley Hills, to the



John Bilotta / John McGrew



Quantum Mechanic we go, with



Mark Alburger, Harriet March Page, Martha Stoddard,



Erin Lahm, Maria



Mikheyenko, Laryssa Sadoway,



Justin Marsh, Elizabeth Henry, and



Keisuke Nakagoshi (part of the Return to Return to Sorrento SFCCO upcoming program.


Also hand out some Sex and the Bible business card promos and bestow the



score upon Keisuke, who will be joining us for tomorrow's rehearsal.



Dinner with Harriet afterwards at Pleasant Hill



BJ's, then recording a slower tempo (eighth = 350, rather than 400) of Sex and the Bible: 7. Amazing Joseph: II. Meanwhile Joseph (Tamar) in the lab, before the veil draws.