Saturday, January 15, 2011

Martian Gardens for 01/16/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
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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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Martian Gardens for 01/09/2011

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for January 9, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Giacinto Scelsi: Hispania (Trypyque pour Piano)
I. Mosso, con spirito
II. Moderato
III. Mosso

The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Haskell Small: Lullaby of War
I. War is Kind
II. No
III. Recitative VIII (excerpts)
IV. Naming Souls
V. Look Down, Fair Moon
VI. Guernica Pantoum

Lullaby of War/Renoir's Feast/3 Etudes in Sound
Naxos/2011
piano: Soheil Nasseri; narrator: Martin Rayner; texts: I. Stephen Crane; II. Joy Harjo; III. Yvan Goll; IV. Uri Zvi Greenberg; V. Walt Whitman; VI. Paula Tatarunis

SINGLE PLAY
Toca Loca: Bring Them Home! (F. Rzewski)
Shed
Henceforth Records/2010
piano: Simon Docking; percussion: Ajyun Huang; percussion: Fernando Rocha; piano, conductor: Gregory Oh; recorded at Walter Hall, University of Toronto

SET ONE
Gidon Kremer: Eight Hymns (In Memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky) (S. Kovacs Tickmayer)
a. Calmo
b. Tranquilo
c. Pesante
d. Sereno
e. Molto Tranquilo
f. Dolce
g. Molto Semplice

Hymns and Prayers
ECM Records/2010
violin: Gidon Kremer; piano: Khatia Buniatishvili; vibraphone: Andrei Pushkarev; Kremerata Baltica orchestra, conductor: Roman Kofman; recoreded at Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus, July, 2008

Anthony De Mare: Statue of Liberty (L. Anderson)
Speak! The Speaking-Singing Pianist
Innova Recordings/2010
Recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff, November, 2008

SET TWO
Nicolas Bernier: Writing Machine
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)(DVD Extract) #
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
voice: André Garant; commissioned by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Certain Gravities
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
voice: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works (excerpt)
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
recorded in Rome, circa 1974

SINGLE PLAY
Sylvia Smith: Mureau (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
Smith Publications/2008
voices: S. Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau's Journal, arranged by I Ching chance operations by John Cage

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