Martian Gardens for 07/03/2011

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for July 03, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Corner: Piece for String Instrument #5
Pieces from the Past--By Philip Corner for the Violin of Malcolm Goldstein
Pogus Productions/2011
violin: M. Goldstein; recorded at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, 12/11/84

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Apartment House 1776
Orchestral Works I
Mode Records/1994
New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Voices--
Protestant: Walter Buckingham
Native American: Darrell Dunn
African American: Semenya McCord
Sephardi: Chiam Parchi
New England Conservatory Orchestra, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, March, 1991

SET ONE
Philip Glass: Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket (from Trial 2/Prison)
Einstein on the Beach
Electra/Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; spoken voice: Lucinda Childs; Sheryl Sutton; texts: L. Childs; Christopher Knowles

Tom Hamilton: Jamaica Center
Off-Hour Wait State -- Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: Thomas Buckner; percussion: Jonathan Haas; alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; electronic environment: T. Hamilton

SET TWO
Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch-Elektra/2010
drums, percussion: Ben Witman, bass guitar: Skúli Sverrisson, viola: Eyvind Kang, background vocals: Antony Hegarty; vocals, percussion, violin: L. Anderson; recorded in New York City

Laurie Anderson: Statue of Liberty
Live in New York, September 19-20, 2001
Electra/Nonesuch/2002
vocals, violin, keyboards: L. Anderson; bass: Skúli Sverrisson; percussion: Jim Black; electronics: Peter Scherer; recorded at Town Hall, NYC, 2001

Paul Lansky: Ride
Ride
Bridge Records/2000

Paul Lansky: Wordless
Music Box
Bridge Records/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat--
a. Just Now the Sea-Green Banners Fly
b. Just Now the Early Peach is Red
c. It's Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk
d. Summer Earth is Windless. Heat Still Presses
e. Light Clothes! Few Clothes!
f. I Remember Desire like White Light
g. I Raise my Head to Look at T'ung TreesCDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29#
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music--
University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998

SET THREE
William Price: Let Freedom Ring
Electroacoustic Works (2004)
created at the Electro-Acoustic Music Studios, Louisiana State University

Trever Wishart: Fireworks (from Tongues of Fire)
MusicWorks 98
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
premiered at Synthese Festival, Bourges, France, 1994

Trevor Wishart: American Triptych
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
premiered at Groupe de Recherches Musicales' Cycle Acousmatique series, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris,01/08/00

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: The Fourth of July
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961--1966 #
New World Records/2003
premiered at the ONCE Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 02/25/61

SET FOUR
Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
a. Bird
b. Night Foxes
6 Compositions
Open Space/1997
mastered at New York University, 1997

Mara Helmuth: Meeting the Free Dreamer
Open Space 16 (Barkin/Carlé/Exley/Helmuth)
Open Space/2004
computerized piano sequences: M. Helmuth

--FIN--