Martian Gardens for 04/10/2011

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for April 10, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
James Newton: Sanctus (from Mass)
Sacred Works
New World Records/2011
soprano: Elissa Johnston; mezzo soprano: Tracy Van Fleet; tenor: Daniel Chaney; bass baritone: Abdiel Gonazelez; flute: Gary Woodward; clarinet: Gary Bovyer; violin: Ralph Morrison; viola: Kazi Pitelka; cello: Cecilia Tsan; bass: David Young; piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Lynn Vartan; conductor: Grant Gershorn; recored at Zipper Hall, Colburn School of Music, August, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Sanctus
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
computers, samplers: N. Rolnick; realized at Wittenberg Studio, Bearsville, NY; iEAR Studios, Renseselaer Polytechnic Institute; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, recorded at iEAR, 10/13/90

SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis:
a. Rebonds B
b. Rebonds A
Mode Records/2006
Percussion Works
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego

Johanna Beyer:
a. IV
b. Percussion, Opus 14
Restless, Endless, Tactless
Johanna Beyer and the Birth of American Percussion Music
New World Records/2011
Meehan/Perkins Duo & The Baylor Percussion Group; recorded at Jones Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; a. recorded 12/15/09; b. recorded 02/09/10

Lou Harrison: Music for Remy
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute: Leta Miller; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: In Bingham
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
voice: S.S. Smith; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008

Stuart Saunders Smith: By Language Embellished: I
a. Prologue
b. Scene I
c. Scene II
d. Scene III
e. Scene IV
f. Epilogue
Music/Theater -- New Dimensions (DeLio/Smith)
Centaur Records/2003
voice, percussion: Kristen Loree; producing director: John Bartlit; texts: S.S. Smith

SET THREE
John Cage/David Tudor: Story No. 50
(concerning smuggling cigarettes with Merce Cunningham)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded at Columbia Teachers College, 1959, by Mel Kaiser

John Cage: Voiceless Essay
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
recorded 3/17/88 in New York City for the dance "Points in Space" (1986) The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Renée T. Coulombe: 12th Consciousness
Sounding Out! DVD
Everglade Records/2010

SET FOUR
Robert Morris: Rapport -- November 23, 1975 (excerpt)
Rapport
The Open Space/2011
synthesizer: R. Morris; tape delay system: David Mott; recorded at Yale Electronic Studio, New Haven, 11/23/75

Darren Copeland: Let Me Out (excerpt)
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at the compoer's studio, Tornonto, 2006

SET FIVE
Mikel Kuehn: Chiaroscuro
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 #
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
recorded at MACCM; interactive electronics: M. Kuehn; cello: Craig Hultgren

Craig Hultgren: The Artist and His Model (C.N. Mason)
Music of the NEXT Moment
Innova Recordings/1995
electronic tape: Charles Norman Mason; cello: C. Hultgren

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Sonata I (R. Ashley)
Just for the Record
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1979)
grand piano: BGT; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1978

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