Martian Gardens 8/10/2008

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host:Max Shea
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PROGRAM FOR AUGUST 10, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Music for Jackson Pollock
First Recordings: 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Daniel Stern

SET 1
Morton Feldman: Music for Jackson Pollock
I. Signature
II. Jackson Pollock Speaks
III. Shadow
IV. Glass
V. Glass (Second Sequence)
First Recordings: 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Daniel Stern
speaker: Jackson Pollock
Original soundtrack to a film by Hans Namuth


Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2007

Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
Breath--The Perucssion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
11 West Records/2004
xylophone: Dale Speicher
bass drum: Matt Apanius
snaredrum, high-hat: Chris Leonard

Nils Bultmann: The Madness
Terminally Unique
Mutable Music/2008
djembe: Paddy Cassidy
tenor saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell
Parry Karp: Cello
N. Bultmann: Viola

SET 2
Arie Shapira: Achtung Rapunzel
Arie Shapira/2007
Meitar Ensemble
mezzo soprano: Ayelet Amotz
text: Brothers Grimm

Elizabeth Austin: An die Nachgeborenen (To Those Born Later)
I. Truly, I Live in Dark Times
II. I Came to the Cities in a Time of Disorder
III. You Who will Emerge from the Flood
Reflected Light
Capstone Records/1995
Chamber Choir of the Staatliche Hochschule for Musik,
Heidelberg--Mannheim
conductor: Gerald Kegelmann
piano: Sibylle Dotzauer
soloists: Vernika Winter, Kristen Grunenpult, Alex Bassermann
text: Bertolt Brecht

SET 3
The Dale Warland Singers: Bright Faces (M.E. Childs)
Choral Currents
Innova Recordings/1991
text: Sappho

Joseph Waters: Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos
Joseph Waters
North Pacific Music/2000
texts: traditional songs of Australia's Yolngu people
voices--soprano: LeaAnne Denbeste; mezzo: Sue Hale; tenor:
Scott Thomi; bass: Craig Kingsbury; wind sextet--flute: Nancy Teskey;
english horn: Allen Juza; clarinet: Betsy Hornick; bassoon: David Becker;
horn: Kevin Calvert; trumpet: Jim O'Banion

SET 4
Carrier Band: Video Voice
Voice Coil
Deep Listening/2008

Joseph Celli: Video Sax
Video Ears Music Eyes
O.O. Discs/1995
saxophones: Ulrich Krieger

SET 5
Robert Scott Thompson: Stochos I
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1995)

Cindy McTee: from "M" Music -- Baroque Bypass
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 18
Centaur Records/1994
alto saxophone: Debra Richtmeyer

Wendy Carlos: Sonata in G Major (Scarlatti)
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
East Side Digital/2001 (orig. 1969)

Earle Brown: from Folio
a. November 1952
b. December 1952
Selected Workds 1952-1965
New World Records/2006

SET 6
Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008
voice: Chris Mann

Al Margolis: Deck for Chair, Too
60 x 60 2006-2007
Vox Novus/2008

Noah Creshevsky: Sonota
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971--1992
EM Records/2004

Al Margolis/If,Bwana: Natraj
Rex Xhu Ping
Pogus Productions/2004