Martian Gardens for 9/14/2008

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EDT
Host:Max Shea
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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

SET 1
Meredith Monk: Last Song
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008

Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
voices: Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini, M. Monk
keyboards: Wayne Hankin, Nurit Tilles

Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms--The Nerve Events Project #
Cuneiform Records/1993

Arie Shapira: Saxo Quartet & Playback
Arie Shapira/2008
Israeli Saxo Quartet

SET 2
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Noa Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: Mari Kimura

Mari Kimura: Submarine (R. Rowe)
Polytopia--Music for Violin & Electronics
Bridge Records/2007

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim

Rodney Waschka II: Xuan Men (Dark Gate)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 16 #
Centaur Records/1994
violin: Bruce Berg

SET 3
David Starobin: Two Practical Cats (H. Searle)
a. Macavity--The Mystery Cat
b. Growltiger's Last Stand
Music With Guitar, Volume 4
Bridge Records/1990
narrator: Patrick Mason; flute/piccolo: Susan Palma;
cello: Timothy Eddy; guitar: D. Starobin; texts: T.S. Eliot

Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon--
A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now*
a. Phase One--Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
b. Phase Two--One, Two, Three Four--X,Y,Zee
c. Phase Three--Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the
bell come out fighting!
d. Phase Four--Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy,
acey ducey, hoochey koochey (Look out! He's got a gun!)
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI 1997)
*from Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater
Gate 5 Ensemble; recorded 1953 Sausalito, California

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Ditone Set
a. Usul
b. Plaint
c. Variations on Walter von der Voglweide's 'Song of Palestine'
d. Estampie
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
guitars: John Schneider

SET 4
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere Inside the Red Circle
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; "Leading a Double Life"
performed by The Ned Sublette Group

Little Bang Theory: AutoZither no.1
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Jennifer Griffith: Calling G.B.
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

George Brunner: Art in Heaven
The Electroacoustic Music Ensemble Brooklyn College 1999
The Electro-Acoustic Ensemble/1999/2008
voices: Bruce MacIntyre, Jerald Miller, Safiya Ama Samms,
Joshua Samms, G. Brunner; texts: Pater Noster, Psalm 23,
11th Century Solemn Easter Mass

Robert Voisey: Lullaby
ibid.
voice: Joyce Tannian

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Dow: Burnt Umber
Selected Works
Robert Dow/2008