Martian Gardens for 01/16/2011

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for January 16, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
David Behrman: ...for nearly an hour... (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
voices: Valda Setterfeld, Carolyn Brown, Barbara Dilley Lloyd, Beverly Emmons, for the dance "Walkaround Time," recorded in Buffalo, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
David Baker: Through This Vale of Tears
I. Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death
II. If There Be Sorrow
III. My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IV. Parades to Hell
V. Deliver My Soul
VI. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
VII. Now That He Is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill, viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, artist director: Vivian Taylor; recorded at The African American Meeting House, Boston, 1991; texts: I., III., V. Psalm 22; II. Mari Evans; IV. Solomon Edwards; VI. traditional; VII. Carl Hines
In memoriam Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, January 15, 1929 -- April 4, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne: from Katrina Ballads
a. Prologue: Keeping its Head Above Water
b. When we awoke it was to that familiar phrase: New Orleans dodged a bullet
c. Hardy Jackson 8.30.05
d. Interlude 1
e. Dennis Hastert
Katrinia Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
a. mezzo-soprano: Abby Fischer; text: Eric Berger, The Houston Chronicle (12.01.01); b. horn: Nathan Koci; title: Pamela Davidson-Ehlers, American Federation of Government Employees; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; text: Hardy Jackson, resident of Biloxi, ABC Television; e. tenor: Isaiah Robinson; text: Dennis E. Hastert (R-IL), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; recorded with 16-member chorus and ensemble in March, 2008, Avatar Studios, Manhattan

SET ONE
Amy Horvey: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola (G. Scelsi)
Interview
Actuellecd/2009
trumpet: A. Horvey; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal, August, 2009

Giacinto Scelsi: from Suite no. 5: Il Circo
I. Deciso
II. "quarter note" = 120
III. Grazioso
IV. "quarter note" = 108
V. Spigliato
The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Extended Family
a. The Gene Pool
b. Siblings
c. Cousins & Uncles & Aunts
d. Loss
e. The Gathering
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
ETHEL string quartet; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, February, 2010

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits
a. Sylvia
b. Ivy
c. Earle
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
piano: Thomas Moore

John Cage:
a. Totem Ancestor
b. Ad Lib
c. Jazz Study
d. Music for Marcel Duchamp
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
pianos: Margaret Leng Tan

SINGLE PLAY
Toshi Ichiyanagi: Activities for Orchestra
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
viola: David Behrman; piano, voice, percussion: John Cage; horns, live electronics: Gordon Mumma; piano, live electronics: David Tudor; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; percussion: Max Neuhaus; for the dance "Scramble" (1967), recorded on tour, May, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Visages V (Parts 1-3)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

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