December 25 - Merry Mary!

May You Have a Magnificent New Year!

Mark and Harriet

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November 13 - Opera and Song

Opera and Song
November 13, 2010
Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
 

Job: A Masque, with Harriet March Page (God / Bildad the Shuhite),



Heather Klein (Elihu / Servant I),




Marilyn Pratt (Job), Kate Bautch (Job's Wife / Servant III),




Suzanna Mizell (Eliphaz the Temanite / Servant II), and Maria Mikheyenko (Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Servant IV), on John Bilotta's Opera and Song program, also featuring
his




Yeats Songs and



Trifles, plus




Ed Knight's Life Is Fine and




Sylvia Rickard's Three Cabaret Songs.

November 6 - Swarthmore Student / Alumni Concert

September 25 - SFCCO Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 15, 2010

CONTACT:

SFCCO (707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL"
8:00PM, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA

OLD FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
MICHAEL COOKE, LOREN JONES, JORGE LIDERMAN, TERRY RILEY,
LISA SCOLA PROSEK, ERLING WOLD, AND MARK ALBURGER

SAN FRANCISCO, August 15, 2010 -- What is reality? Sentient beings clamoring for existence, the wind whistling through leafy vegetation, the silence and noise of this stony planet. Come along on musical safari with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (8pm, Saturday, September 25, Old First Church, SF) in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral -- a tour of the Earth's scenic and sonic wonders, in compositions by Michael Cooke, Loren Jones, Jorge Liderman, Terry Riley, Lisa Scola Prosek, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger

The latter's Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations is a dark, Orwellian spin on creatures great and small, including a visual presentation of surrealistically-altered YouTube videos. In biological distinction, Jones will offer Banyan: an aural giving-tree of multicultural musical delights. Answering this will be a revival of Riley's celebrated minimalist-improvisatory anthem In C, in all of its crystalline and granitic splendor.

Also along for the journey are Michael Cooke's deeply-felt Love Letters; Lisa Scola Prosek's vibrant Piano Sonata; a retrospective work of the late, great Jorge Liderman; and an exciting new work by Erling Wold. John Kendall Bailey will join Alburger in the zoomusicological tour-guiding responsibilities.

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TICKET INFORMATION:

Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" -- on Saturday, September 25, 8:00 p.m., at Old First Church (1725 Sacramento Street @ Van Ness), San Francisco, are $17 general, $14 students and seniors. Tickets are available through the OFC Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (707) 474-7273, or visit the organizations' respective websites at www.oldfirstconcerts.org and www.sfcco.org. Tickets are also available at www.ticketweb.com. Other links to the show may be found at myspace.com/sfcco, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.

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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:

OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS
Saturday, September 25, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,

Program:

Mark Alburger - Animal Farm: Grand Zoological Fantasy-Variations (Part I)
Michael Cooke - Love Letters
Loren Jones - The Banyan
Jorge Liderman - Flautando
Terry Riley - In C
Lisa Scola Prosek - Piano Sonata

Tickets: $17 general, $14 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.

More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com

June 17 - SF Cabaret Opera - Fresh Voices X

SEASON X
Fresh Voices X Festival of New Works

Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera celebrates its 10th Annual Fresh Voices Festival of New Works 2010 with four evenings of real-life stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive (America) and dark re-creations of old tales with new twists (Europe and Beyond).

Ten fully-staged short operas will Xplore: an erotic transformation in Hungary; starving artists in a sideshow in Czechoslovakia; a pioneer woman in Nebraska driven mad by loneliness; an Xpresident disintegrating in America. And more!

X at the Heart of America
Stories of loneliness and alienation, the spirit of adventure and the will to survive.

X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond
Dark re-creations of old tales with new twists.

Featuring Hadley McCarroll and Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano

Live Oak Theatre, 1301 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley


Program A 
8pm, Thursday, June 17
8pm, Saturday, June 19

Featuring World and Bay Area premieres of new operas and songs

X at the Heart of America / X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond

Edward Knight - Life is Fine (Langston Hughes)

Raina Simons, Soprano

Chris Wittaker - George Bush: The Last Hundred Days

Meghan Dibble
Chelsea Hollow
Nathaniel Marken

Daniel Felsenfeld - The Bloody Chamber 
(Elizabeth Isadora Gold, after the novella by Angela Carter)

Indre Viskontas
Jo Vincent Parks
Nanette McGuinness

Mark Alburger - Job: A Masque (after The Book of Job)

Nanette McGuinness, God / Bildad the Shuhite
Crystal Philippi, Satan / Zophar the Naamathite
Marilyn Pratt, Job
Kate Bautch, Job's Wife
Sarita Cannon, Eliaphaz the Temanite
Heather Lauren Klein, Elihu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L31Zfc3FJBA&feature=channel_video_title

John G. Bilotta - Trifles (John F. McGrew)

Michael Desnoyers
Alexandra Jerinic
Nathan Kondrat
Nathaniel Marken
Maria Mikheyenko


Program B
8pm, Friday, June 18
7pm, Sunday, June 20

X at the Heart of America / X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond

Alden Jenks - Letter from Linda (Frank Polite)

Indre Viskontas
Sarita Cannon

Robert Denham - Sutter Creek

Wayne Wong
Kate Bautch
Sarita Cannon
Heather Lauren Klein

David Garner - Medea Alone

Kristen Brown

Mark Narins - Theresa Kren

Katherine Howell
Tristan Robben

Jeff Myers - The Hunger Art (Royce Vavrek)

Joshua Beld
Meghan Dibble
Justin Marsh
Eliza O’Malley
Sophia Santulli


Tickets

Advance tickets sales: $20 general admission/$15 seniors/students/TBA
Tickets at door: $25 general admission/$20 seniors/students
Reserve your tickets online or by calling 415-289-6877 or email


“Living up to its name, the Fresh Voices Festival presented a truly amazing selection of new works by San Francisco Bay Area composers and librettists.... Not only is the concept great but so is the quality of musicianship in both the vocal and ensemble performance. Artistic director Harriet March Page and musical director Mark Alburger, tireless champions of new music, demonstrated an energy and vision that was truly astounding. . . .Goat Hall Productions with its innovative programs is proving to be an essential part of the music scene of San Francisco.” -- William Susman, 20th-Century Music

“. . . .I hope that such enjoyable musical theater will eventually find its way even further throughout the region. I’m sure I speak for all the audience when I say I didn’t want it to end!” -- Allan Crossman

June 11 - SFCCO Silence of the Wolves

SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 10, 2010

CONTACT:
SFCCO (707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"SILENCE OF THE WOLVES"
8:00PM, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA

OLD FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
JOHN BEEMAN, CINDY COLLINS, LOREN JONES, DARIUS MILHAUD,
LISA SCOLA PROSEK, MARTHA STODDARD, AND DAVIDE VEROTTA

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2010 -- Listen carefully. The slightest sound may be of the greatest import. That wolf howling in the distance, just at the edge of consciousness, may change your life. For the better. At least, we sure hope so, as San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents Silence of the Wolves -- an evening celebration of sounds great and small, at Old First Church on June 11, 2010, in music of John Beeman, Cindy Collins, Loren Jones, Darius Milhaud, Lisa Scola Prosek, Martha Stoddard, and Davide Verotta.

Verotta's An Enticement of Silence and Jones's Wolf Wood manifest the head and tail of the concert in musics gentle and disturbing -- sentiments also mirrored in Beeman's Bernsteinianly-appelated Fancy Free. Scola Prosek provides the requisite bark and bite in three selections from the opera Ten Days (Dieci Giorni, after The Decameron of Boccaccio) with songs tragic, romantic, and comic. Rounding out the pack are the colorful Collins Synesthesia (directed by Mark Alburger) and the wolf-whistle Cowgirl Rondo of Stoddard (conducted by the composer), with a special howl-out going for the revival of Les Six / Mills College associate Milhaud's Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-3, led by John Kendall Bailey.

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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Silence of the Wolves" -- on Friday, June 11, 8:00 p.m., at 1725 Sacramento Street (@ Van Ness), San Francisco, are $17 general, $14 students and seniors. Tickets are available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, or the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (707) 474-7273, or visit the organizations' respective websites at www.sfcco.org and www.oldfirstconcerts.org. Tickets are also available at www.ticketweb.com. Other links to the show may be found at myspace.com/sfcco, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.

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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS
Friday, June 11, at 8:00 p.m. Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608


SILENCE OF THE WOLVES
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra,

Program:

John Beeman - Fancy Free
Cindy Collins - Synesthesia
Loren Jones - Wolf Wood
Darius Milhaud - Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Lisa Scola Prosek - Three Songs from 10 Days
Martha Stoddard - Cowgirl Rondo
Davide Verotta - An Enticement of Silence

Tickets: $17 general, $14 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.

More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com

March 5 - Sex and the Bible: The Opera (Part I)

Mark Alburger
Lot / Old Abraham / Old Isaac / Laban / Onan / Ruben / Hamor / Hirah / Joseph's Pharaoh

Kimberley Anderman
Eve / Noah's Wife / Sarah / Sodomite / Rachel

Robert Benda
Adam / Ham / Young Abraham / Sodomite / Young Isaac / Jacob

Elizabeth Finkler
God of Adam / Cain / Abraham's Pharaoh / Angel of Death / Abimelech / Zilpah /Judah / Levi

Nanette McGuiness
God of Cain and Abel / Noah / Midwife II / Lot's Younger Daughter / Dinah

Maria Mikheyenko
Snake / Hagar / Sodomite / Leah / Er

Theresa Nelson
God of Noah / Midwife III / Ishmael / Sodomite / Lot's Wife / Esau / Bilhah / Simeon / Joseph / Townsperson

Crystal Philippi
Midwife IV / Angel of Life / Hivite / Benjamin / Tamar

Marilyn Pratt
Lucifer / Abel / God of Abraham / Midwife I / Lot's Older Daughter / Shechem

Indre Viskontas
God of Lot / Rebekkah / Prostitute / Potiphar's Wife

Mark Alburger - Director and Designer

Harriet March Page - Co-Director and Producer

Elizabeth Henry - Costumes and Co-Designer

Victoria Holder - Lights

February 20 - SFCCO Return to Return to Sorrento

SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 20, 2010

CONTACT:

SFCCO (707) 474-7273
mus21stc@gmail.com

SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
"RETURN TO RETURN TO SORRENTO"
8:00PM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, OLD FIRST CHURCH,
1725 SACRAMENTO STREET (AT VAN NESS), SAN FRANCISCO, CA

OLD FIRST, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WORLD PREMIERES OF WORKS BY
JOHN BILOTTA, PHILIP FREIHOFNER, DAVID GRAVES, LOREN JONES,
PHIL LOCKWOOD, LISA SCOLA PROSEK, KIT RUSCOE, MARTHA STODDARD, DAVIDE VEROTTA, ERLING WOLD, AND MARK ALBURGER

SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, 2010 -- Ever have a tune you couldn't get out of your head? The composers of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra find themselves returning to Ernesto de Curtis's Return to Sorrento (1902) in Return to Return to Sorrento -- on Saturday, February 20, at Old First Church -- evoking a sunny, post-El-Nino world of musical fact and fantasy from John Bilotta, Philip Freihofner, David Graves, Loren Jones, Phil Lockwood, Lisa Scola Prosek, Kit Ruscoe, Martha Stoddard, Davide Verotta, Erling Wold, and Mark Alburger.

The Return pieces -- a series of variations by Jones, Scola Prosek, Ruscoe, Verotta, Wold, and Alburger -- will be interwoven into a mix that will also feature Bilotta's back-to-the-future Quantum Mechanic (semi-staged in co-operation with Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera); David Graves's relatedly-apocalyptic Tickertape; Philip Freihofner and Phil Lockwood's evocative Vista and Blade of Grass; Martha Stoddard's enchanting Duo Concertante for Flute, Marimba, and Chamber Orchestra (featuring Bruce Salvisberg and Anne Szabla); Jones's adventurous Lost Plateau; and Alburger's frenetic-erotic-violent Salome Suite.

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TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra's "Return to Return to Sorrento" -- on Saturday, February 20, 8:00 p.m., at 1725 Sacramento Street (at Van Ness), San Francisco, are $15 general, $12 students and seniors. Tickets are available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608 and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Church Box Office, or the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra at (707) 474-7273, or visit the organizations' respective websites at www.sfcco.org and www.oldfirstconcerts.org. Tickets are also available at www.ticketweb.com. Other links to the show may be found at myspace.com/sfcco, and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com.

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CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:
OLD FIRST CONCERTS PRESENTS
Saturday, February 20, at 8:00 p.m.
Old First Church
1725 Sacramento Street at Van Ness
San Francisco, CA
(415) 474-1608


RETURN TO RETURN TO SORRENTO
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

Program:

Mark Alburger - Salome Suite and Pini di Surriento
John Bilotta - Quantum Mechanic
Philip Freihofner - Vista
David Graves - Tickertape
Loren Jones - The Lost Plateau and Arrivederci Sorrento
Phil Lockwood - A Blade of Grass
Lisa Scola Prosek - Sorrento Canzonetta
Kit Ruscoe - Sorrento
Martha Stoddard - Duo Concertante for Flute, Marimba, and Chamber Orchestra
Davide Verotta - Come back but where!? (Torna ma dove?!)
Erling Wold - per Margherita Eugenia

Tickets:$15 general, $12 students and seniors, available through the Old First Church Box Office at (415) 474-1608, at the door, and at www.ticketweb.com.

More information at sfcco.org and markalburgerevents.blogspot.com

January 1 - Merry Wonderful

The Nativity According to St. Matthew:

IX. An Angel of the Lord




With this Christmas greeting, The Nativity (Op. 72) is now recorded in a mostly-Garbage-Band version, at markalburgerworks.blogspot.com.

Upcoming performances: