Martian Gardens for 4/26/2008

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR APRIL 26, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Voile
Music for Strings
Mode Records/2005
Ensemble Resonanz; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

SET ONE
John Cage: First Construction in Metal
The 25th Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
Wergo/1994
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, director: Paul Price
recorded at Town Hall, NYC, 5/15/58

John Cage:
a. Sonata I
b. Sonata II
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano 1946--1948
CRI/1995
prepared piano: Mario Ajemian

John Cage:
a. Prelude for Meditation
b. Root of an Unfocus
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre

SET TWO
Henry Brant: Meteor Farm, Parts 1-6
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 4--
Meteor Farm: A Spatial Concert of Ceremonies
Innova Recordings/2006
Wesleyan University Orchestra, Wesleyan Singers,
Wesleyan Concert Choir, Wesleyan Gamelan, South Indian Trio,
West African drumming ensemble, Wesleyan Big Band, saxophones
with choir, soprano soloists; conductors: Neely Bruce,
Richard Winslow, H. Brant;
Recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts,
Wesleyan University, 3/06/82

Wendy Mae Chambers:
a. Snake Dancer
b. Hoodoo Root Doctor
12-Squared
New World Records/1998
percussion: Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker,
Charles Kieger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair,
Don McMilllan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto;
conductor: Dominic Donato;
Recorded at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, 7/21/94

SET THREE
Annea Lockwood:
a. Micro Glass Shaken
b. Glass Rod Vibrating
The Glass World
What Next? Recordings/1997

Michael Lipsey: Words/Echoes (M. Rosenblum)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2007

Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (Stuart Saunders Smith)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008

Maggi Payne: Flaptics
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999
intereactive electronics: Mark Trayle

SET FOUR
Robert Normandeau: Overture (from Clair de terre)
Clair de Terre
empreintes DIGITALes/2001

Robert Normandau: Chorus
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2007

SET FIVE
John Luther Adams: In a Room
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009

Richard Lainhart: Staring at the Moon
Ten Thousand Shades of Blue
XI Records/2001

Brian Eno: Dawn, Marshland
Eno Boxed Set
Virgin Records/1993

SET SIX
Don Cherry/Nana Vasconcelos/Collin Walcott: Like That of Sky
The Codona Trilogy
ECM Records/2008

Jorge Reyes: Body Song
Solar--A Music Travelogue, Volume 1#
Soleilmoon Records/1997

Joan La Barbara: Shamansong (excerpt)
Shamansong
New World Records/1998
voice, percussion, computer, synthesizers: J. La Barbara; tar, dumbek:
Polly Tapia Ferber; cello: Erica Duke Kirkpatrick; gender: Kristina Melcher

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