Martian Gardens for 12/07/2008

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host:Max Shea
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PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 7, 2008

SET 1
Lynn Job: Lily
60 x 60 2004/2005
Vox Novus/2007

John Cage: Indeterminacy #55 (concerning "Ha-Ha, your mushrooms are gone!")
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor

Cindy Cox: Nature Is
60 x 60 2006/2007
Vox Novus/2007

John Cage Indeterminacy #86 (concerning Deception Pass, Puget Sound)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
piano/noises: David Tudor

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: selections from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
I. Improvisation
III. Moto Perpertuo
V. Canto
VIII. Canaries
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records2001
timpani: Daniel Druckman
In honor of Elliott Carter's 100th birthday this Thursday, December 11, 2008

SET 2
Barbara Benary: Downtown Steel I
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinet: Daniel Goode; soprano sax: Jon Gibson;
marimba: Bill Ruyle; drum set: Chris Nappi; trombone: Peter Zummo;
tuba: Marcus Rojas; percussion: Nick Didkovsky; vibraphone: B. Benary

Evan Ziporyn: Ngaben (for Sari Club)
Typical Music
New Albion Records/2005
Gamelan Galak Tika; New England Conservatory Philharmonic,
conductor: Dante Azolini

SET 3
Douglas Ovens: Improvisation #4B (Music Box)
Seven Improvisations
North/South Recordings/2004

Eric Moe: Songs and Dances of the Automobile
I. Mambo
II. Nocturne
III. Rubber Riff
IV. Lullaby with Variations
V. Piston Fling
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Great Masters of Melody (P. DeMarinis)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)

SET 4
Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
brake drums: Sylvia Smith; voice, text: Stuart Saunders Smith

Harry Partch: Pray for Me
Delusion of the Fury
Innova Recordings/1999 (orig. Sony/1971)
Ensemble conducted by Danlee Mitchell, supervised by H. Partch, Recorded at
UCLA, 1969

New Circle Five: Ghost Women
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003

SET 5
Morton Feldman: Durations part 5
Indeterminate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble; directors: Philipp Vandre, Thaddeus Watson

Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop, conductor: James Fulkerson

Mark Applebaum: Entre Funerailles II
Disciplines
Innova Recordings/2004
vibraphone: Terry Longshore

SET 6
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
Recorded March 8, 2008, Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron
S.S. Smith: Maine English, Regular English

Alvin Curran Curran: From Center of Rainbow, Sounding (M. Goldstein)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
violin sounding: Malcolm Goldstein; maritime sounds and lobstermen recorded in
Maine

Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn (exerpt)
The Seasons--Vermont
XI Records/1998
Ensemble recorded 2/26/83 at Real Art Ways, Hartford; autumnal
sounds recorded in Vermont

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