Martian Gardens for 07/24/2011

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 24, 2011

SET ONE
Laurie Anderson: The Geographic North Pole
The Ugly One With the Jewels
Warner Bros./1995

Jacqueline Humbert: Adieu (Humbert/Rosenboom)
Chanteuse -- Songs of a different sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004

Roger Reynolds: Religious Music (from The Ivanov Suite)
Electroacoustic Music
New World Records/1993
percussion: Steven Schick; piccolo: vocalist: Philip Larson; cello: Regina Mushabec; violin: János Négyesy; piccolo: John Fonville; trumpet: Edwin Harkins; members of the Suzuki Company of Toga; recorded at the University of California San Diego

Meredith Monk: Clusters 2
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
The Montclair State University Singers; The M6 vocal group; percussion: John Hollenbeck; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009

SET TWO
Somei Satoh: Burning Meditation
From the Depth of Silence
Mode Records/2004
baritone: Thomas Buckner; The Janáček Philharmonic, conductor: Petr Kotik; text: Kazuko Shiraishi; recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 5/07/03

Somei Satoh: The Passion (excerpt)
Ostravská Banda on Tour
Mutable Music/2011
baritone: Thomas Buckner (JC); baritone: Gregory Purnhagen (Pilate); male choir; Ostravská Banda recorded at Czech Radio Ostrava Studio, 10/24/10

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Twice
Who
Centaur Records/2000

Robert Normandeau: from Chorus
a. Overture
b. Judaisme
c. Christianisme
d. Islaminisme
Puzzles (DVD)
empreintes DIGITALes/2005

Robert Scott Thompson: Ice
Sanctum
Electronic Music Foundation/2007

SET FOUR
Benjamin Boretz: Argument (from Language, as a music)
Open Space 10 (Randall/Boretz)
Open Space/1999
piano: B. Boretz; Center for Music Experiment, University of California, San Diego, 5/03/80

Howard Skempton: Durham Strike
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, 10/02/07

Ursula Mamlok:
a. Sculpture I
b. Love Song of Two Pigeons
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
piano: Garrick Ohlsson; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 12/27/07

John Cage: A Valentine Out of Season (I, II, III)
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk (Sendesaal), Frankfurt, 2001-2002

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: À propos de K
Études Pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized in 2006 at the composer's studio in Avignon, France

SET FIVE
César Bolaños: Divertmento III
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
for clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion instruments; premiered at the IV Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Beunos Aires, 10/24/67

Amy Horvey: Marionette Lazarus
Catchment
Paved Arts/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; trumpet and organ sounds recorded in a pedestrian underpass in Saskatoon

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Tenzer: Undrleaf (Buk Katah)
Let Others Name You
New World Records/2009
for Balinese Gamelan and nonet of brass, winds, and piano; Sanggar Çudamani collective and Vancouver Players; recorded in Pengosekan, Bali, 7/09/06 (premiered at the Bali Arts Festival, Denpasar, Bali, 7/10/06); mastered in Vancouver, BC, by François Houle, Fall 2006

SINGLE PLAY
Evan Ziporyn: Three Island Duos (M. Tenzer)
a. Krk-y
b. Biak-words
c. Bouvet fanfare
This Is Not A Clarinet
Cantaloupe Music/2002
clarinets: E. Ziporyn; recorded in Roslindale and Lexington, Massachusetts, 1999-2001

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