Martian Gardens for 4/05/2009

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR APRIL 5, 2009

SET ONE
Henry Brant: from Rainforest
a. Indigenous Peoples
b. Destruction
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 6
Innova Recordings/2006
conductors: Amy Snyder, H. Brant;
libretto: Daniel Abd al-Hayy Moore
Environmental spatial oratorio for
four singers and instrumental ensemble,
performed at the 1989 Aspen Music Festival

Henry Cowell: Atlantis (2nd 1/2)
a. Pleasure Dance of the Sea Soul
b. Withdrawal of the Sea Soul to the Sea
c. Combat Between Sea and Earth Monsters
d. The Triumph of the Sea Monster
Dancing With Henry--New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
California Parallele Ensemble; conductor: Nicole Paiement;
soprano: Patrice Maginnis; mezzo-soprano: Wendy Hillhouse;
baritone: Leroy Kromm; libretto: Alice Pike Barney

SET TWO
Hans Werner Henze: Ein kleines Potpourri aus der Oper "Boulevard Solitude"
a. Berceuse-Gavotte-Galop
b. Manon Lescaut schriebt einin Brief
c. Perpetuum Mobile
Musica da Camera
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Dissonanzen

Neil Rolnick: Uptown Jump
The Economic Engine
Innova Recordings/2009
MAYA trio

SET THREE
Carrie Rose: High Flyer (R. Erickson)
Book of Flutes
11 West Records/2008

Robert Erickson: Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra
Auroras
New World Records/2008
cello: Rafael Popper-Keizer; Boston Modern Orchestra Project;
conductor: Gil Rose

SET FOUR
Steven Mackey: Deal (1st 1/2)
Banana/Dump Truck
Albany Records/2005
electric guitar: S. Mackey; drums: Ray Dillard;
Boston Modern Orchestra Project; conductor: Gil Rose

Steven Mackey: Psychedelic Sketch
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
MOSAIC ensemble

SET FIVE
George Crumb: All My Trials (Death's Lullaby)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 13
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Ann Crumb; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman

George Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, Part One
a. Refrain One
b. I. La Guitarra (The Guitar)
c. Refrain Two
d. II. Casida de las Palomas Oscuras (Casida of the Dark Doves)
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, etc.
Bridge Records/1991
Speculum Musicae: baritone: Sanford Sylvan; electric guitar:David Starobin; electric contrabass: Donald Palma; electric
piano and electric harpsichord: Aleck Karis; percussion:
Daniel Druckman, Eric Charlston; text: Federico Garcia Lorca

SET SIX
Kenneth Gaburo: Mouthpiece II
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2002
voice, text: K. Gaburo

Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
Source: Music of the Avant-Garde #
Pogus Productions/2009
voice; text: A. Lucier
Source Record No. 3, Vol. 4, No. 1, Issue 7, July 1970
realized by Alvin Lucier in his living room at 454 High Street,
Middletown, CT; recorded by Lucier, edited/engineered by
Rudolf De Grood


SET SEVEN
Ellen Band: Closet Bird (excerpt)
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001

Al Margolis/If, Bwana: Cicada 4AA
6848
Gravity-Swarm Recordings/2008

-fin--