Martian Gardens for 02/06/2010

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for February 6, 2010

HOMAGE TO MILTON BABBITT
May 10, 1916 -- January 29, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Danci (M. Babbitt)
Newdance
Bridge Records/1998
guitar: D. Starobin; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, NY

SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: String Quartet No. 2
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
The Composer's Quartet -- violin: Matthew Raimondi, violin: Anahid Ajemian, viola: Jean Dupouy, cello: Michael Rudiakov

Milton Babbitt: All Set, for Jazz Ensemble
Spectrum -- New American Music, Volume V
Nonesuch Records/1974
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, conductor: Arthur Weisberg

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
Mark II RCA Synthesizer: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: Dylan Thomas; created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1961

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander (based on Ovid's "Philomena"), created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964

SET TWO
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Electronic Music from Leaders of the Avant-Garde
Columbia/1968
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964

Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations
Occasional Variations
Tzadik/2004
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: M. Babbitt, created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968-1971

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: An Elizabethan Sextette
I. When I Was Fair and Young
II. Out of Sight, Out of Mind
III. Your Face, Your Tongue, Your Wit
IV. Can Doleful Notes to Measured Accents Set
V. First Love
VI. Neopolitan
Music of Milton Babbitt
CRI/1988
voices: Susan Jacquemot, Janet Steele, Johanna Arnold, Nancy Bergman, Barbara Ann Martin, Martha Rafferty-Page, conductor: Harvey Sollberger; texts: I. attributed to Elizabeth I; II. Barnabe Googe; III. attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh; IV. Samuel Daniel; V. Thomas Campion; VI. Michael East; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/19/84

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Groupwise
ibid.
The Group for Contemporary Music, conductor: Daniel Shulman; recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York, 12/23/84

SET THREE
William Anderson: Sheer Pluck (M. Babbitt)
Diary of a Seducer
CRI/2000
guitar: W. Anderson

Dorothy Stone: None But the Lonely Flute (M. Babbitt)
None But the Lonely Flute
New World Records/2000
flute: D. Stone

SINGLE PLAY
Milton Babbitt: Swan Song No.1
The Music of Milton Babbitt
Bridge Records/2003
Cygnus Ensemble; conductor: Jeffrey Millarsky; recorded at Eonta Sound, Bronxville, 2003

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