Saturday, February 7, 2009

Martian Gardens for 2/08/2009

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

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

PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 8, 2009

SET ONE
John Cage: A Valentine Out of Season I,II,III
Complete Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandre

Gamelan Son of Lion: Naked We Stand (D. Simons)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2008

Barbara Benary: Smudging (from Aural Shoehorning)
Sun on Snow
New World Records/2006
piano: Joseph Kubera; clarinets: Steven Silverstein; vibraphone: Chris Nappi; marimba: Bill Ruyle; Gamelan Son of Lion: B. Benary, David Demnitz, Daniel Goode, Patrick Grant, Lisa Karrer, Jody Kruskal, Laura Liben, David Simons

Lou Harrison: Solo to Anthony Cirone
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
tenor bells: William Winant

Stuart Saunders Smith: Good Night
At Sixty, Selections
11 West Records/2008
marimba: Mark Halaiko

SET TWO
No World (Trio): Valentine Ashes
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
violin: Malcolm Goldstein; komungo: Jin Hi Kim; oboe: Joseph Celli

Malcolm Goldstein: Configurations in Darkness
A Sounding of Sources
New World Records/2008

SET THREE
Harry Partch: excerpts from Bitter Music--
a. November 16-Ojai
b. November 17
c. November 23-Los Angeles
d. November 23
e. December 4
f. December, 1935

Enclosures 2--Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Warren Burt; piano: Sheila Guymer; broadcast ABC Melbourne 1/23/92

David Baker: excerpts from Through This Vale of Tears--
a. Parades to Hell
b. Now That he is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS--Works by Anderson, Baker, Fox, Wilson
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill; viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, director: Vivian Taylor; texts: Solomon Edwards (a), Carl Hines (b)

Philip Glass: from Einstein on the Beach--Knee Play 5
Philip Glass Introduced by Philip Glass (promotional release)
Nonsuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women's chorus;
reciter: Jasper McGruder; text: Samuel M. Johnson


SET FOUR
Susan Botti: from Cosmosis--
a. Overboard (Prologue)
b. the 1st Night
Brooklyn Bridge #
Equilibrium/2005
University of Michigan Symphony Band, conductor: Michael Haithcock;
Women of the University of Michigan Chamber Choir,
director: Jerry Blackstone; soprano: S. Botti; text: Mary Swenson


Steven Stucky: Threnos
Music for Wind Ensemble
Albany Records/1997
Baylor University Wind Ensemble; conductor: Michael Haithcock

SET FIVE
Lee Hyla:
a. Pre-Amnesia
b. Mythic Birds of Saugerties
Americans in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
alto sax, bass clarinet: Tim Smith

Tim Hodgkinson: Aici Schiteaza pe Acum (Here as a Sketch of Now)
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2007
Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: T. Hodgkinson; tenor saxophone:
Robert Reigle, percussion: Morris Palter; tape


The Skein: Backroom/No Introduction
Cities and Eyes
Henceforth Records/2009
Andrea Parkins, Jessica Constable

Greg Bartholomew: No! George! No!
60 x 60--2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

George E. Lewis: Morning Blues for Yvan
Mendi + Keith Obadike--Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008

SINGLE PLAY
David Hahn: Big Donut
David Hahn Online/2007
guitar, voice: D. Hahn; text: unnamed child at unnamed Seattle donut shop


SET FIVE
Elsa Justel: Fy Mor
Desde El Otro Lado--Electroacoustic Music from Latin America #
O.O. Discs/1998

Elsa Justel: Alba Sud
Mats
empreintes DIGITALes/2004

SET SIX
Diane Labrosse: Manual Coffee Mill
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
actuellecd.com/2007

J. Ryan Garber: Kettle Music
60 x 60--2004-2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

David Gamper: Conch Call Evolution
ibid.

Bernard Hughes: Full Fathom Five
ibid.

Daniel Goode: V-I
ibid.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Martian Gardens for 2/01/2009

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

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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