Martian Gardens for 2/01/2009

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 1, 2009

SET ONE
Sylvia Smith: Thinking About Anne Sexton (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008

Christian Wolff: I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Volume 2--Chamber Works
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop; voice: Judith Van Swaay; text: Susan Griffin

Joan La Barbara: De Profundis--Out of Depths, A Sign
The Time is Now #
Freg Peak Music/1996
Text: Melody Sumner Carnahan

SET TWO
Mary Simoni: Doxology
Alternating Currents--
Electronic Music from The University of Michigan #
Centaur Records/2000

Charles Wuorinen: Genesis III. Doxology
Genesis
Albany Records/2004
Minnesota Orchestra & Minnesota Chorale,
conductor: Edo de Waart

Jack Beeson: Three Settings from the Bay Psalm Book
a. My Heart's Not Haughty Lord--Psalm 131
b. Clap Hands--Psalm 47
c. The Lord to Mee a Shepheard is--Psalm 23
In Praise of Singing
Albany Records/2004
Gregg Smith Singers, conductor: Gregg Smith

Anatoly Pereslegin:
The Secret of the LORD is with Them that Fear Him--Psalm 25
FASTGOD: e-psalms
Electroshock Records/2002
voices: Ivan Jmaev, Yuriy Valenkov, Alaxder Shaverdyan, Ruben Gasparyan

SINGLE PLAY:
Olly Wilson: Sometimes
Videmus: Works by Anderson, Baker, Fox, Wilson #
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; text: trad. (Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child)

David Baker: from Through This Vale of Tears:
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
ibid.
violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill; viola: Marcus Thompson;
viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill
tenor: William Brown; text: trad.

SET THREE
Taxonomy: Crescendo--Maestoso
10 Taxonomical Movements
actuellecd.com/2008

Scott Smallwood: Whitecap
60 x 60--2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

DJ Spooky featuring Ursula Rucker: Being Black
Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008

Jacques Tremblay: from Empathies Entropiques
a. L'enfant d'Afrique
b. Haiti Troubadour
Chroniques d'une Seduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2008

SET FOUR
Musica Elettronica Viva: Spacecraft (excerpt)
MEV 40
New World Records/2008

MEV at Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, 10/05/67:
Allan Bryant: Homemade synthesizer made from electronic organ parts;
Alvin Curran: Mbira thumb piano mounted on a ten-litre AGIP motor oil can,
contact microphones, amplified trumpet, voice; Carol Plantamura: voice;
Frederic Rzewski: Amplified glass plate with attached springs and
contact microphones; Richard Teitelbaum: Modular Moog synthesizer;
contact microphones, voice; Ivan Vendor: Tenor Saxophone

Allan Bryant: Space Storm
Space Guitars
CRI/1995 (orig. 1977)

SET FIVE
Hans Werner Henze: Sonatina for Flute and Piano
a. Moderato--Allegro molto vivace
b. Andantino
c. Presto
Musica da Camera
Mode Records/2008
flute: Tommaso Rossi; piano: Ciro Longobardi

Chris Newman: Piano Sonata No.4
I. Adagio
II. Andantino
III. Adagio
Piano Sonatas
Mode Records/2008
piano: Michael Finnissy

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Lauingen to Weltenburg
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd.,/2008

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