Martian Gardens for 11/30/2008

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:30--24:00 EST
Host:Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 30, 2008

SET 1
Elliott Carter: Asko Concerto
What Next?/Asko Concerto
ECM New Series/2003
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Peter Eotvos

Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (excerpt)
Kraanerg
Mode Records/2008
Callithumpian Consort, conductor: Stephen Drury

SET 2
Sylvia Smith: In Hours Like These (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
orchestra bells: Syliva Smith, speaking voice; singing voice: Christie Finn
text: Vladimir Mayokovsky

Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
ibd.
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; voice: Sylvia Smith

Stuart Saunders Smith: Rose
At Sixty--Selections
11 West Records/2008
flute; voice: Carrie Rose; text: Anne Sexton

Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #1 (Stuart Saunders Smith)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
flutes: Lisa Cella, Kathie Trahan, C. Rose

SET 3
Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera
a. Simbolo
b. Accenti
c. Contrapunctus Primus
d. Linee
e. Contrapunctus Secondus (Canon Contrario Motu)
f. Fregi
g. Andantino Amoroso e Contrapunctus Tertius (Canon Cancrizans)
h. Ritmi
i. Coloro
j. Ombre
k. Quartina
Musica da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
piano: Ciro Longobardi

Arthur Levering: Tesserae
Americans in Rome--Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
piano: Donald Berman
viola: Jonathan Bagg

SINGLE PLAY
Lejaren Hiller: A Portfolio for Diverse Performers and Tape
A Total Matrix of Possibilities
New World Records/2008
Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith; electronics realized
at the Experimental Studio, Polish National Radio, Warsaw

SET 4
Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37,
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
text: Lewis Carroll

Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #6 for Electronic Percussion and Tape
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004

Noah Creshevsky: Independence Day
To Know and Not To Know
/Tzadik/2007

SET 5
Fred Frith + Danielle Palardy Roger: Sala Nera
Pas de Deux
Actuellecd/2008

Hans Fjellestad: Dual Resonance I
Dual Resonance
/Circumvention Music/2003
tenor saxophone: Jason Robinson
contrabass: Peter Kowald
Dana Reason: Piano
H. Fjellestad: piano, synthesizer

Alan Sondheim: 778
Ritual-All-7-78
ESP Disk/2008
trumpet: Robert Poholek; bass drums: JP;
vocals: Ruth Ann Hutchinson; xylophone: A. Sondheim
Recorded 1/67, Povidence, RI

Meredith Monk: Totentanz
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2003
piano, violin: Allison Sniffin; percussion: John Hollenbeck;
reeds: Bohdan Hilash; voices: Meredith Monk, Theo Blackmann

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