June 13 - Wow!

What a show! Perhaps our most important SFCCO ever...

SAN FRANCISCO
COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Mark Alburger, Music Director

Restless Dreams

Saturday, June 13,
Old First Church, San Francisco
Mark Alburger, John Kendall Baily, and
Martha Stoddard, conducting

Philip Freihofner - Obelisk



Lisa Scola Prosek - Voodoo Storm



Davide Verotta - Verso L’immagine Feroce
(Toward the Ferocious Image)



Allan Crossman - Plasticity
(Tom Nunn, Sonoglyph)



Loren Jones - Eagle Bear Woman
- Two Islands

Michael Cooke - A Baby Sleeps
(Theme and Variations for Sheng, Guzheng, and Orchestra

Mark Alburger - King David Suite (The Young and the Restless)
I. O for the Wings of a Dove (Psalm 55)
II. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)
III. Song in the Forest of Ephraim (The Death of Absalom)

Erling Wold and fognozzle
- In the Stomach of Fleas

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In the cocoon of home, page 10 of Elijah Rock: XXIV. Benhadad (The Purges and Jezebel) orchestrated.

June 12 - Smoking Rehearsal

No, that's not the fervor of holy fire (perhaps distracting a run-through of Lisa Scola Prosek's Voodoo Storm), just



Fognozzle checking his pyrotechnics for his piece with Erling Wold (In the Stomach of Fleas) later in the



dress rehearsal for tomorrow's San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Restless Dreams show.



Meanwhile, there's Steve Adams performing



Philip Freihofner's Obelisk,



Martha Stoddard conducting Davide Verotta's L'imagine feroce,



John Kendall Bailey at the helm for the Loren Jones Eagle Bear Woman and



Two Islands, and Mark Alburger directing his King David Suite, plus Allan Crossman's Plasticity (with Tom Nunn on his invented Sonoglyph), Michael Cooke's A Baby Sleeps (featuring guchin and sheng), and the aforementioned sound-and-light Fleas. Wow! So inspiring that it's time to orchestrate another page (9) of Elijah Rock: XXIV. Benhadad (The Purges and Jezebel).

May 13 - Last Light

Blast out the door for the last session of Music and the Enlightenment -- a blitz from Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9: IV through the influence of Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical to recent times (making it up to a new "Three B's" including Leonard Bernstein and the Beatles). Then last Theory session, with more Beethoven as Phil presents the "Moonlight" Sonata opening for dictation and Chris continues with same for board harmony. There's more dictation from Jacob in a trumpet version of a cello Camille Saint-Saens number, plus Julian Antonin's sight-singing of the Bill Conti "Rocky" Theme and an original Nate Thomas piece for additional harmonization. Last-minute compositions by Nate and Julian, then blitzing back to print out parts for King David Suite, and heading over the



slopes of the



Sulfur Springs Mountains,



to San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra Board Soiree and Board Meeting we go, beginning with a recording the Alexis Alrich (great to have her back, albeit briefly, from Hong Kong + who's that guy with the hair?) Marimba Concerto followed by I. Death and II. Defeat from Sex and Delilah, singing the part of Samson and displaying the pictorial libretto. Lingering after with Michael Cooke and Erling Wold, we go over details re conducting their A Baby Sleeps and In the Stomach of Fleas respectively (and, no, there's no thematic relationship between these works), then home to produce another orchestrated page of Elijah Rock: VII. Rise (Elijah and the Prophets of Baal) before lights out.

May 8 - Help Yourself

Finish the orchestration of Elijah Rock: IV. Now (Elijah and the Widow),



produce all the parts for King David Suite (including new ones for bassoon, contrabassoon, and tenor sax in III. Song in the Forest of Endor [The Death of Absalom]),



lunch with Harriet at local bistro (with views of the English Hills and Vaca Mountains), and return to produce visual libretto for



Sex and Delilah: II. Defeat (The Ass's Jaw).

May 3 - Points and Lyings

Orchestrate another page of Elijah Rock: II. Disguise (Jeroboam's Wife and Ahijah), then Lisa calls about the upcoming San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra show, which motivates putting together



King David Suite (The Young and the Restless), Op. 174
I. O for the Wings of a Dove (Psalm 55)
II. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)
III. Song of the Forest of Ephraim (The Death of Absalom)

taking the Sibelius midi files and renotating in Encore -- worlds easier than doing the reverse.

Harriet out mid-day for more Fresh Voices IX rehearsals, and we dine together at home, after which orchestration through page six of Elijah: II.