Martian Gardens for 02/13/2011

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 February 13, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 5
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women's chorus; voice: Jasper McGruder; text: Samuel M. Johnson, "Two Lovers"; recorded 1993

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I)
I. Alba (Dawn)
II. Las Seis Cuerdas (The Six Strings)
III. Danza (Dance)
IV. Paisaje (Landscape)
V. ¡AY!
VI. Malagueña
VII. Memento
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 15
Bridge Records/2011
baritone: Patrick Mason; guitar: David Starobin; percussion: Daniel Druckman; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca;
recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, June, 2010

SET ONE
J.K. Randall: through Lapland
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba #
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Jean Geoffroy; recorded at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, July 3, 2009

J.K. Randall:
a. Quartets in Paris
b. Quartersines
Computer Music #
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Paul Lansky: The Joy of F# Minor
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

Steve Mackey: Wish It Were
Lost & Found
Bridge Records/2007

SET TWO
Ursula Mamok: Sonar Trajectory
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
realized at the Columba-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966

Daria Semegen: Electronic Composition No. 1
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 #
New World Records/1998
realized at the C-PEMC, 1971

Brad Garton: Dan's Toys
Go Go Go - Music from the Computer Music Center, Columbia University #
Columbia University Computer Music Center/2000

SET THREE
So Percussion ~ Trollstilt: Martin's Garden
Five (and-a-half) Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007

Bernadette Speach: Chosen Voices
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
prepared guitar: Jeffrey Schanzer; toy piano: B. Speach; recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, 2000-2001

Christian Wolff: For Morty
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman (Chamber Works Vol. 2)
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop; recorded at the Hilversum Conservatorium, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1994-1998

Morton Feldman: For Violin, Cello, and Vibraphone (from Durations)
Intermediate Music
Mode Records/2002
The Turfan Ensemble, recorded at HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt, 1996-1997

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Ixion
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
pianos: John Cage, David Tudor; recorded in rehearsal for the dance "Summerspace" (1958)

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Brief an den Vater
Études pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
vocalizations: Hans Tutschku; narration: Martin Engler; text: Franz Kafka; realized in 2006 at Dhomont's studio, Avignon

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Almost New York
Almost New York
Pogus Productions/2010
flutes: Robert Dick; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn

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Martian Gardens for 02/06/2010

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 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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