Martian Gardens for 05/16/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for May 16, 2010
(Extended edition)

Selections 1-4 in celebration of Milton Babbitt's 94th birthday (b. May 10, 1916)

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Leaders of the Avant-Garde
Columbia/1967
recorded in 1964 on the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Columbia University

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995 (orig. Acoustic Research/1971)
recorded in 1964 on the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, Columbia University; soprano: Bethany Beardsley; text: Ovid; libretto: John Hollander

SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: Swan Song No. 1
The Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
Cygnus Ensemble -- flute: Tara Helen O'Connor; oboe: Robert Ingliss; mandolin: William Anderson; guitar: Oren Fader; violin: Calvin Wiersma; cello: Susannah Chapman; conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky; recorded at Eonta Sound, Bronxville, NY, 2003

Milton Babbitt: Composition for Guitar
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2003
guitar: William Anderson; recorded at New Jersey State Museum, Trenton

SET TWO
David Congo: Prelude (Winter '95)
a. Introduction
b. Electronic Transformation
c. Dirge
d. Homage to Varèse
e. Coda
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006
recorded in West Springfield, Mass.

David Congo: Prelude (Spring '96)
Fusions -- Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/2010
Recorded in West Springfield, Mass.

Joel Chadabe: Spring
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundations/2002
percussion: Jan Williams

SET THREE
Ezra Sims: If I Told Him
a. Quick -- Fleet and flexible as speech
b. Slow, flexible, introspective
c. Calmly brisk
Musing and Reminiscence
New World Records/2010
alto: Christina Ascher; cello: Christoph von Erffa; text: Gertrude Stein, "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"; recorded in Darmstadt, June, 2003

Pauline Oliveros: Poem of Change
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
voice, accordion, text: P. Oliveros; recorded at Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR), Akustich Kunst studio, 1990, WWII sounds from the WDR library; sample -- Nat King Cole: These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Maschwitz/Strachey)

SET FOUR
Christian Wolff: Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses -- Piano Works 1976-1983
Mode Records/1995
variations on "Bread and Roses" (C. Kohlsaat, c. 1912); piano: Sally Pinkas; recorded at the Performing Arts Concert Hall, UC Santa Cruz, December, 1993

Christian Wolff: (track one)
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, text: Chris Mann; guitars: Larry Polansky; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; computer, electronics: Douglas Repetto; processing, editing: Tom Erbe; recorded by Repetto and Erbe, Hanover, NH, 1998

SET FIVE
Iannis Xenakis: À la mémoire de Witold Lutoslawski
Ensemble Music 2
Mode Records/1996
members of ST-X Ensemble Xenakis USA; recorded at St. Peter's Church, NYC, 1996

John Cage: Five-4
The Works for Saxophone Vol. I (A Cage of Saxophones)
Mode Records/1996
soprano sax: Ulrich Krieger; alto sax: Reimar Volker; percussion: Friedemann Werzlau, Raymond Kaczynski, Andreas Peters; recorded at the SBF studios, Berlin, 1999

Dean Rosenthal: Underpinnings
For Max Shea
Dean Rosenthal/CD-R compiled 2009
CalArts Millennium Chamber Players, recorded 1998, Valencia, California (available on
Trace label release "Post-Minimalism")

SET SIX
Barnz: Age of Jubilation
Lost in the Garden of Delay
David Barnes/2008
feedback: George Locke; drum machines, percussion instruments, SEPTA turnstile, Rhodes piano, sampled cowbells, electric guitar: Barnz

Mario Verandi: Heartbreaker
orillas distantes/distant shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
produced at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 1996

SET SEVEN
Margaret Schedel: The Beautiful Don't Lack the Wound
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 #
Bridge Records/2010
táragató, interactive electronics: Esther Lamneck; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, May, 2008

Esther Lamneck: Crack Hammer (Z. Browning)
Cigar Smoke
Innova Recordings/2007
clarinet: E. Lamneck, with tape

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Bodil Rørbech: RH* (S. Link)
Violin Vision
Albany Records/2005
*ref. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati; recorded at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Park City, Utah; January, 2002

SET EIGHT
Dmitry Mazurov: Mask for Delicate Aesthetes
Creature on a Lavatory Pan
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Electroshock Records studio, December, 2009

Yney: Closed Lection
Micro Macro
Electroshock Records/2010
recorded at Electroshock Records studio, December, 2009

Coil:
a. Disco Hospital
b. Teenage Lightning
Love's Secret Domain
Threshhold House/1991

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Francis Dhomont: Here and There
...Et Autres Utopies
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
recorded at Francis Dhomont's studio, Montreal, 2003

--FIN--