Martian Gardens for 4/19/2009

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 19, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Private Lives
Auxesis (Amirkhanian/Creshevsky)
Centaur Records/1995

SET ONE
Gyorgy Kurtag: Kafka Fragments, Part III
a. To have? To be?
b. Coitus as Punishment -- Canticulus Mariae Magdalenae
c. My Fortress
d. I am dirty, Milena...
e. Miserable Life (Double)
f. The Closed Circle
g. Destination, Path, Hesitation -- for Marta
h. As Tightly -- for Beatrice and Peter Stein
i. Hiding-Places (Double)
j. Offensively Jewish
k. Amazed, we saw the great horse
l. Scene on a Tram (1910: "In a dream I asked the dancer
Eduardowa if she would kindly dance the Csardas once more...")
Kafka Fragments
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Tony Arnold; violin: Movses Pogossian; texts: Franz Kafka

Gyorgy Kurtag: Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky
(extracts 11-15)
a. Sehr Fleissend
b. Sostenuto, quasi giusto
c. Sostenuto, con slancio
d. Disperato, vivo
e. Larghetto
1974 Arditti Quartet 1994
Disques Montaigne/1994

SET TWO
German Romero: Ramas
Arditti Quartet -- Mexico
Mode Records/2006
amplified solo violin: Irvine Arditti

Arie Shapira: Violin 2008
Arie Shapira/2008
solo violin with playback: Gilead Hildesheim

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: At a Still Point
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009

John Luther Adams: Solitary and Time-Breaking Waves
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2006
Percussion Group Cincinnati

SET FOUR
Henry Brant: from Rainforest
a. Prologue
b. Vegetation
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 6
Innova Recordings/2009
conductors: H. Brant, Amy Snyder;
recorded at Aspen Music Festival, 7/30/89

Chen Yi: YangKo
Sound of the Five
New World Records/2009
violin: Ron Blessinger; percussion: Neil DePonte;
percussion: Gordon Rencher

SET FIVE
Patti Monson: Pattibox (R. Woolf)
High Art -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
Albany Records/2009

Patti Monson: Noa Noa (K. Saariaho)
Conspirare -- Chamber Music for Solo Flute
CRI/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Normandeau: Eden
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005

SINGLE PLAY
Rune Lindblad: Maskinlandskap
Objekt 2 -- Electronic and Concrete Music
Pogus Productions/1998

RANDOM PLAY AT POINTS THROUGHOUT
from 60 x 60 2005 on Vox Novus
Malcolm W. Rector: Two
Marihiko Hara: In 399 BC
Piotr Szewezyk: Cosmic Insects
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Christopher Bailey: NanoSymph in 4 Movements
Michael Vernusky: Roppongi Skeins

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