Sunday, March 8, 2009

Martian Gardens for 3/08/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

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

PROGRAM FOR MARCH 8, 2009

SET ONE
Federico Mompou: Musica Callada, Book Three
a. XVII. Lento
b. XVIII. Luminoso
c. XIX. Tranquilo
d. XX. Calme
e. XXI. Lento
Musica Callada
MSR Classics/2008
piano: Haskell Small

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Drifter (free reading)
Take Your Time
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003

SET TWO
Roger Sessions: From My Diary (1937-40)
a. Peco adagio
b. Allegro con brio (tranquilo ed espressivo-tempo)
c. Larghisimo e misterioso
d. Allegro pesante
Complete Works for Solo Piano
Albany Records/2005
piano: Barry Salwen

Robert Helps:
a. Two Bagatelles (E. Kim)
b. Partitions (M. Babbitt)
New Music for the Piano
CRI/2001 (orig. 1971)

Milton Babbitt: Phonemena (for soprano and tape)
Philomel
New World Records/2002
soprano: Lynne Webber

SET THREE
George Crumb: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 13--
American Songbooks II & IV
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman

James Mulcro Drew: Animating Degree Zero
Animating Degree Zero
New World Records/2009
The Barton Workshop, conductor: Jos Zwaanenburg

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, Part One (to Line 220)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier;
voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; text: James Joyce; premiered 10/22/79, West German Radio, Cologne


SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: Caritas
Source--Music of the Avant Garde
Pogus Productions/2009
Source Records No. 4, Vol. 4, No. 2, Issue 8, July 1970;
1969 piece realized on PDP-10 computer, Artificial Intelligence
Project at Stanford U., processed on the Buchla Electronic Music System


SET FOUR
Larry Austin: RomaDue
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 35--
Ottuplo! Larry Austin: The Eighth Decade
Centaur Records/2006
Roma Due: Sounds and Movements for Improvisation Ensemble,
Dancers, and Tape; realized 1965 at the American Academy in Rome;
revised 1996 at gaLarry, Denton, TX


Theodore Lotis: A South Wind will Bring the Sand
Epoque de l'Eau
empreintes DIGITALes/2009

SET FIVE
Henry Brant: Trinity of Spheres
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 3
Innova Recordings/2006
Denver Symphony Orchestra; conductors: Carl Topilow, Bruce Hangen, H. Brant

Iannis Xenakis: Le Deesse Athenia
Xenakis & Varese
Mode Records/1997
baritone: Philip Larson; percussion solo: Timothy Adams;
Carnegie-Mellon Philharmonic, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; text Aeschylus


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