Martian Gardens for 11/14/2010

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for November 14, 2010

SET ONE
Henryk Górecki: Amen (Opus 35)
Miserere
Elektra-Nonesuch/1994
Chicago Symphony Chorus, director: Margaret Hillis; recorded April, 1994, at St. Mary of the Angels Church, Chicago

In memoriam Henryk Mikołaj Górecki: December 6, 1933 -- November 12, 2010

Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Alleluia. Nativitas (Pérotin)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

Howard Skempton:
a. Music, when soft voices die
b. He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Bolt From The Blue
Mode Records/2010
Exaudi -- sopranos: Juliet Fraser, Katie Trethewey, Julie Doyle; mezzo soprano: Ruth Massey; countertenor: Tom Williams; tenors: Stephen Jeffes, Jonathan Bungard; bass-baritone: Jonathan Saunders; bass: Jimmy Holliday, director: James Weeks (Doyle, Bungard on b. only); texts: a. Percy Bysshe Shelley, b. William Butler Yeats; a. recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, 9/26/07, b. St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, 1/17/07

Giacinto Scelsi: Lento -- Misterioso, soprannaturale (from Cinque Incantesimi)
The Piano Works 3
Mode Records/2006
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, March, 2005

SET TWO
Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: The Bird on the Scene Says Yes
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
flute with glissando headjoint: R. Dick; vocals: T. Buckner; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

Mari Kimura: Gemini for solo violin
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
recorded by Tom Hamilton at Harvestworks and Systems Two, NYC

Mari Kimura: Axon (T. León)
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, June 2005

SET THREE
Mrs. Frances Perry: Cranberry Song
Folk Music from Wisconsin -- The Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture
Rounder Records - Library of Congress/2001 (orig. 1960)
recorded by Helene Stratman-Thomas and Aubrey Snyder at Black River Falls, 1946

Amy Horvey: Cranberry Flats Mobile
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; recorded at Cranberry Flats Conservation Area, South Saskatchewan River, August, 2001

SET FOUR
Hildegard Westerkamp: Kits Beach Soundwalk
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
narration: H. Westerkamp; realized at the composer's studio, 1989, sounds recorded at Kitsilano Beach (aka "Kits Beach"), Vancouver featuring sounds sampled from Xenakis' "Concrete PH"

Iannis Xenakis: Concrete PH
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
sound source: smoldering charcoal; composed and recorded at GRM, Paris, for the Phillips Pavilion at the World's Fair, Brussels, 1958

Iannix Xenakis: Polytope De Cluny (excerpt)
Electronic Works 2
Mode Records/2009
premiered at the Festiveal d'Automne, Paris, 1972

SET FIVE
Natasha Barrett: Gentle Sediments (Barely: part-3)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at the composer's studio, Oslo; premiered at the 38th Synthèse festival, Bourges, 6/04/08

Luigi Nono: Omaggio a Vedova
Omaggio a Vedova
WERGO/1993 (orig. 1972)
recorded at Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rome, 1960

Flutronix: Run-On
Flutronix
Flutronix Music/2010
flutes, electronics: Nathalie Joachim, Allison Logggins-Hull; recorded at Total Sonic Media, Brooklyn

SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde, Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Pogus Productions/2008
recorded at Tangent Studio, London, and The Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmith College, 1970

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm (purring reprise)
ibid.

Alvin Curran: Light Flowers Dark Flowers I
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
performed and recorded in Rome, 1974

SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Venus Notorious
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
pianos: Julie Gunn, Edward Rath; xylophone: William Moersch; drum set: Ricardo Flores; recorded at the University of Illinois

--FIN--