Saturday, April 11, 2009

Martian Gardens for 4/12/2009

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 APRIL 12, 2009

SET ONE
Jorge Liderman: from That is Already...
a. Marcato e com Spirito
b. Vivo
Wind-Up Toys
Albany Records/2005
piano: Gloria Cheng

Jorge Liderman: from Glimpses -- Parts 7-13
Barcelonazo
Bridge Records/2008
Kiev Philharmonic, conductor: Robert Ian Winstin

Gyorgy Kurtag: from Signs, Games and Messages
a. Signs I
b. Signs II
c. Signs III
d. Signs IV
Signs, Games and Messages
ECM New Series/2003
Orlando Trio

SET TWO
John Cage: Empty Words with Music for Piano (short excerpt)
Cage Performs Cage
Mode Records/2009
voice: J. Cage; piano: Yvar Mikhashoff;
recorded at SUNY Buffalo, 4/91


John Cage:
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music, Performance I, 6:30 pm (short excerpt)
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Mode Records/2007 (orig. 1986)
The New Performance Group; conductor: J. Cage
recorded at Cornish Theater, Seattle, 12/11/83


Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (short excerpt)
Treatise
Mode Records/2009
QUaX Ensemble; director: Petr Kotik;
recorded in Prague, 10/15/67

Sun Ra: Gods on a Safari
Featuring Pharaoh Sanders & Black Harold
ESP-Disk' Ltd
Recorded at Judson Hall, NYC, 13/31/64

Leroy Jenkins: Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl
Solo
Lovely Music, Ltd./1998

Terry Jenoure: Cuando Tia Balla
Promises
She Imagines Records/2004

Meredith Monk: Shadow Song
Do You Be
ECM New Series/1987

Meredith Monk: Keeping Warm
Facing North
ECM New Series/1992
voices: M. Monk, Robert Een

SET THREE
Henry Brant: Labor Day, 1935, Florida Keys
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5 -- Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2005
Musicians of Stetson University, Florida,
as eight spatially separated groups
chief conductor: H. Brant; collaborating conductors:
Tim Maloney, Robert Rich, Thomas Sleeper, Amy Snyder;
recorded 4/26/86, Elizabeth Hall Auditorium


George Antheil: Ballet Macanique
Fighting the Waves
RCA/1996
Ensemble Modern; conductor: H.K. Gruber
Recorded 6/94 for German Radio, Frankfurt


SET FOUR
James Mulcro Drew: Solemn Acts in Rain
Animating Degrees Zero
New World Records/2009
violin: Marieke Keser; piano: Frank Denyer

Garth Knox: Jonah and the Whale
Viola Spaces
Mode Records/2009
viola: G. Knox; tuba: Gerard Buquet

SET FIVE
Paul Lansky: Chatter of Pins
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk
Bridge Records/2008
voices: Hannah McKay, P. Lansky; text: "A Paper of Pins" (trad.)

Shelley Hirsch: War of Dreams
States
Tellus--Harvestworks
voice: S. Hirsch; texts: Angela Carter

SET SIX
Jaques Tremblay: from Empathies Entropiques
a. Tryptique Russe
b. Ganga is Divine
Chroniques d'une Seduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2009

Annea Lockwood:
a. Floating World, Part 1
b. Thousand Year Dreaming, Part 1: Breathing and Dreaming
Thousand Year Dreaming
Pogus Productions/2007
Art Baron, conch shell, trombone, didjeridu; Libby Van Cleve, oboe, English horn;
Jon Gibson, didjeridu; Annea Lockwood, voice; J.D. Parran, clarinet, contrabass clarinet;
Michael Pugliese, tam-tam, clapping sticks; N. Scott Robinson, conch shell,
frame drums, pod rattle, tam-tam; John Snyder, didjeridu, waterphone;
Charles Wood, tam-tam, stones; Peter Zummo, trombone, didjeridu


SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Timing (P. Harmonic)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
voice: Phil Harmonic; synthesizer: BGT

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Martian Gardens for 4/05/2009

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 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--