Fresh Voices XII: Not Shy and Retiring...

Goat Hall Productions
Harriet March Page, Artistic Director
Fresh Voices XII
Not Shy and Retiring:
Mark Alburger's 55th and Friends

A Benefit for Goat Hall Productions and
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra

8pm, Saturday, April 14, 2012
Community Music Center,

544 Capp Street,

San Francisco, CA

Samuel Barber - Sure on this Shining Night, Op. 13, No. 3 (1938)
                    Sarita Cannon, Soprano
                    Mark Alburger, Piano

Craig Cornelia - Flight                       

 
Kurt Weill - Stay Well
                    Annemarie Ballinger, Soprano

Ann Calloway - Vladimir in Butterfly Country: Aria
                    Richard Mix, Bass
                    Ann Calloway, Piano

               
Steven Greenman - In torbe funem vind (In the sack of the wind)       
                    Heather Klein, Soprano
                    Darren Sagawa, Violin
                    Alla Gladysheva, Piano

Gary Friedman - Three Happy Oboists (2010)               
                    Thea Davison, Oboe
                    Gary Friedman, Oboe d'amore
                    Moira Little, English horn

Alden Jenks -

             Unrestful Sleep                       
                    Mikako Endo, Piano

John McGrew - Three Haiku
                    Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano                               
                    Mark Alburger, Oboe
                    John Bilotta, Piano
                    John McGrew, Bass

Helena Michelson - The Game: Mirage
                    Helena Michelson, Piano

Sheli Nan - Saga: I Want a Man on a Motorcycle   
                    Crystal Philippi, Mezzo-Soprano
                    Sheli Nan, Piano

Lisa Scola Prosek - Daughter of the Red Tzar
                    Crystal Philippi, Mezzo-Soprano
                    Lisa Scola Prosek, Piano                   

Mark Alburger - The Decameron, Op. 200 (2012)               
                    First Day - Novel I. Ser Ciappelletto
                    Sarita Cannon, Soprano   
                    Mark Alburger, Tenor           
                    Wayne Wong, Bass-Baritone               

           Triple Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, and Harp
                    ("Family"), Op. 201 (2012): I. Allegro
                    Michael Garvey, Bassoon               
                    Lori Garvey, Contrabassoon               
                    Samantha Garvey, Harp                   
                    Mark Alburger, Piano

           Psalms, Book IV, Op. 202 (2012): II. Psalm 92:
                    5-11. ... Unicorn / 12-14 ... Palm Trees
                    Sarita Cannon, Soprano
                    Mark Alburger, Tenor / Piano                               
                    Wayne Wong, Piano

Broadway, Berlin, and Beyond...

The Threepenny Opera in Concert

All the Songs from "The Threepenny Opera"

Goat Hall Productions presents

All the Songs from "The Threepenny Opera"
Music by Kurt Weill; Words by Bertolt Brecht

8pm, February 15, 2012, Cafe Royale, San Francisco, CA
8pm, February 20, 2012, Stage Werx, San Francisco, CA

Macheath (Mac the Knife) - Zoltan DiBartolo
Mr. Peachum / Tiger Brown - Mark Alburger
Mrs. Peachum - Harriet March Page
Polly Peachum - Sibel Demirmen
Jenny Diver / Lucy Brown - Michelle Jasso

Valentine's Day Pick-Your-Own Aria Concert Party

Goat Hall Productions presents

Valentine's Day Pick-Your-Own Aria Concert Party,

Mark Alburger - The Wind God: I Loved Him (Harriet March Page)
John Bilotta - Trifles
JJ Hollingsworth - Pomp and Circumstances
Mona Lyn Reese - Three Fat Women of Antibes

plus music of

Gustav Mahler
W.A. Mozart
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann

8pm, February 12, 2012

Julia Morgan Chamber Arts House
Berkeley, CA

January 18 - Songs from The Threepenny Opera

Goat Hall Productions presents
Songs from Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera
8pm, Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Cafe Royale
800 Post Street @ Leavenworth
San Francisco, CA

Zoltan DiBartolo - MacHeath (Mac the Knife)
Mark Alburger - Mr. Peachum / Tiger Brown / Messenger
Harriet March Page - Mrs. Peachum
Sibel Demirmen - Polly Peachum
Michelle Jasso - Jenny Diver / Lucy Brown
Allan Crossman - Piano

December 31 - New Music New Year's Bash

Mark Alburger and Harriet March Page
request the honor of your presence
at a year-end concert-party!
(Fresh Voices XI
Festival of New Works)

New
Music
New
Year's
Bash
10pm-12:00midnight
December 31, 2011

Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA

A benefit for Goat Hall and SF Composers Orchestra

Nancy Bloomer Deussen's Adirondack Morn;

John Bilotta's Yeats Songs, with Tristan Robben; Philip Freihofner's Where My Breathing Whispers (Diane Frank), with Eliza O'Malley and Kelsey Walsh;

Ji Yoo's performance of Motherless Child;

Kurt Weill's Lonely House (Annemarie Ballinger) and  

First Threepenny Finale (Harriet March Page);

Martha Stoddard's Quartet for Two Oboes and Two Bassoons and Duo for Bassoons (with Philip Freihofner, Mark Alburger, and Michael and

Lori Garvey);

Dylan Greengard's Bullfight with Self, The Plight of Josef K., and  

The Wrath of Poseidon (the latter in which the composer-guitarist is joined by violinist Asuka Yanai;

Mark Alburger's Business As Usual and

Rozalina Gutman's Music.  We wrap up official proceedings at 11:45pm, toasting the coming year with a theme-and-variations playlist of multiple Auld Lange Synes found online including --

Andrew L
Andre Rieu
A Beautiful Lotus
Harry Koizumi
Jack Ingram
Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis
Anne McGinty
Kenny G
Alfred Publications

-- counting down to the witching hour, shouting,

dancing, and singing Christmas Carrels - A: Lang Syne.