The total serialist composer and electronic music pioneer Milton Babbitt died Saturday at the age of 94.
Milton Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer
A film by Robert Hilferty and Laura Karpman on NPR Music. The filmmaker Robert Hilferty passed away before he could complete this documentary. Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman, one of Babbitt's students at the Julliard School, completed the film. It provides a wonderful introduction to the composer, his music, and his life -- and no mention of "Who Cares If You Listen"!
Sylvia Babbitt predeceased Milton in 2005. They are survived by their daughter Betty Ann Duggan and two grandchildren.
Here the late Dr. Babbitt discusses his work for which he is most famous, his time at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Video courtesy of Dr. Eric Chasalow of Brandeis University:
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Martian Gardens for 01/30/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for January 30, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Solo e Duettini (M. Babbitt)
New Music With Guitar, Vol. 5
Bridge Records/1993
In memory of Milton Babbitt who died January 29th, 2011, at age 94
SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne:
a. Bridge to Gretna
b. Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu
c. Brownie, You're doing a Heck of a Job
Katrina Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
b. soprano: Allison Semmes; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; c. tenor: T. Hearne; recorded with large ensemble at Avatar Studios, Manhattan March, 2008
Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band--vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin; texts: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from Pentagon briefings; recorded at Ft/Lb Studio, Brooklyn, 2003
SET TWO
Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 5
String Quartets Nos. 1,5, & 10
New World Records/2011
The Kepler Quartet; recorded at the Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee, 7/21/2010
Arlene Zallman: Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
cello: Hekun Wu; piano: Elise Yun; recorded at The Sonic Temple, Roslindale, Mass., July, 2001
SET THREE
Arvo Pärt: Affannoso (mvt. II Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles")
Symphony No. 4
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic; conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, January, 2009
Ingram Marshall: Rave, Parts I & II
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve
SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voices, live electronics, acoustical-space sound activators: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Jean Rigg, David Tudor; dance: Canfield (1969); recorded on tour, 1972, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Henry Brant: Revenge Before Breakfast
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2007
piccolo: Paul Taub; clarinet: Gregg Miller; violin: Ella Marie Gray; cello: Walter Gray; percussion: Matthew Kocmieroski, Thomas Eckert; accordion: Laurie Andres, conductor: Henry Brant; recorded in Poncho Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 2/12/85
SINGLE PLAY
New Band: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
New Band performed on original PARTCH INSTRUMENTS; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991-1993
SET FIVE
Danielle Palardy Roger: Qui connaît (La Pinta)
a. Tout le monde en place
b. Nuit sombre
c. Réveil brutal
d. Ah l'aventure
e. Gloire, fortune, renommée et chance
f. Tous les biens de ce monde
Pinta, Niña, & Maria
Actuellecd/2010
performed by the ensemble GGRIL; recorded 8/12/2007
Tim Hodgkinson: Fragor
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: Spacings
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: T. Kosugi; dance: Doubles (1984), recorded in New York City, 3/20/1988, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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 30, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Solo e Duettini (M. Babbitt)
New Music With Guitar, Vol. 5
Bridge Records/1993
In memory of Milton Babbitt who died January 29th, 2011, at age 94
SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne:
a. Bridge to Gretna
b. Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu
c. Brownie, You're doing a Heck of a Job
Katrina Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
b. soprano: Allison Semmes; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; c. tenor: T. Hearne; recorded with large ensemble at Avatar Studios, Manhattan March, 2008
Phil Kline: Three Rumsfeld Songs
a. As We Know
b. That Many Vases
c. Near-Perfect Clarity
Zippo Songs
Cantaloupe Music/2004
The Zippo Band--vocals: Theo Bleckmann; violin: Todd Reynolds; guitars: Phil Kline; percussion: David Cossin; texts: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from Pentagon briefings; recorded at Ft/Lb Studio, Brooklyn, 2003
SET TWO
Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 5
String Quartets Nos. 1,5, & 10
New World Records/2011
The Kepler Quartet; recorded at the Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee, 7/21/2010
Arlene Zallman: Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
cello: Hekun Wu; piano: Elise Yun; recorded at The Sonic Temple, Roslindale, Mass., July, 2001
SET THREE
Arvo Pärt: Affannoso (mvt. II Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles")
Symphony No. 4
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic; conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, January, 2009
Ingram Marshall: Rave, Parts I & II
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve
SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set
New World Records/2010
voices, live electronics, acoustical-space sound activators: John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Jean Rigg, David Tudor; dance: Canfield (1969); recorded on tour, 1972, Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Henry Brant: Revenge Before Breakfast
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2007
piccolo: Paul Taub; clarinet: Gregg Miller; violin: Ella Marie Gray; cello: Walter Gray; percussion: Matthew Kocmieroski, Thomas Eckert; accordion: Laurie Andres, conductor: Henry Brant; recorded in Poncho Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, 2/12/85
SINGLE PLAY
New Band: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994
New Band performed on original PARTCH INSTRUMENTS; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991-1993
SET FIVE
Danielle Palardy Roger: Qui connaît (La Pinta)
a. Tout le monde en place
b. Nuit sombre
c. Réveil brutal
d. Ah l'aventure
e. Gloire, fortune, renommée et chance
f. Tous les biens de ce monde
Pinta, Niña, & Maria
Actuellecd/2010
performed by the ensemble GGRIL; recorded 8/12/2007
Tim Hodgkinson: Fragor
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
SINGLE PLAY
Takehisa Kosugi: Spacings
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
live electronics: T. Kosugi; dance: Doubles (1984), recorded in New York City, 3/20/1988, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company
--FIN--
Monday, January 24, 2011
About Merce Cunningham
A little video about the modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009):
New World Records released Music for Merce, a 10-CD boxed-set dedicated to the music accompanying Cunningham's work over his five-decade career as director of The Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
New World Records released Music for Merce, a 10-CD boxed-set dedicated to the music accompanying Cunningham's work over his five-decade career as director of The Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Martian Gardens for 01/23/2009
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com
Program for January 23, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music
New World Records/2006
created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968
Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun
Piano Music
Smithsonian-Folkways/1993 (orig. 1963)
piano: H. Cowell
Philip Corner:
a. Short Piano Piece IV
b. Short Piano Piece IX
c. Short Piano Piece XIII
40 Years and One -- Philip Corner Plays the Piano
XI Records/2001
piano: P. Corner; recorded at IIWII studios, Weehawken, NJ, January, 1998
Gamelan Son Of Lion: Sad/Happy (D. Goode)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Daniel Goode
SET TWO
John Cage: Music Walk
The Works for Piano I
Mode Records/1995
piano, short radio, objects: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, Mass., March 1993
John Cage: Inlets (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
conch shells with water: Paeder Mercier, Mel Mercier, J. Cage
recorded at Roubaix, France, 10/27/1983; dance: Inlets (1977), Merce Cunningham Dance Company
SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Or 4 People (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
piano, melodica: C. Wolff; live electronics, violin, harmonica: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded in New York, 7/23/1999; dance: Rune (1959), Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Christian Wolff: Snowdrop
Tilbury Pieces/Snowdrop
Mode Records/1999
violin, viola: Dimitrios Polisoidis; piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; recorded at Sender Freies, Berlin, May, 1996
SET FOUR
So Percussion & Matmos: Swamp
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
So Percussion & Trollstilt: Matisse's Garden Lesson
Five (and-a-half)Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007
recorded at Princeton University
Chen Yi: Jing Marimba
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Gordon Stout; recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, 7/05/09
SET FIVE
Neil Rolnick: MONO Prelude
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
laptop, voice: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, February, 2010
Madelyn Byrne: Arrival
Sounding Out! (DVD extracts)
Everglade Records/2010
SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: La Neige
a. Neige 1-2
b. Neige 5-3
c. Neige 4-2
d. Regarder la neige tomber
Récits de neige
Actuellecd/2010
performed by Ensemble SuperMusique, recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal, 2008; texts: a: Dyane Raymond, b: Lise Hétu, c: Luc Proulx; d: Miranda Nienson
SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: Caritas
Source--Music of the Avant Garde (Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971)
Pogus Productions/2009
PDP-10 computer, Buchla Electronic Music System: L. Austin, realized 1969 for the Artificial Intelligence Project, Stanford University
SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Negro Hall
Lisbon Concert
New Albion Records/1996
piano: T. Riley; recorded at the Festival dos Capuchos, Teatro São Luís, Lisbon, Portugal, 7/16/95
--FIN--
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 23, 2011
SINGLE PLAY
Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music
New World Records/2006
created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968
Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun
Piano Music
Smithsonian-Folkways/1993 (orig. 1963)
piano: H. Cowell
Philip Corner:
a. Short Piano Piece IV
b. Short Piano Piece IX
c. Short Piano Piece XIII
40 Years and One -- Philip Corner Plays the Piano
XI Records/2001
piano: P. Corner; recorded at IIWII studios, Weehawken, NJ, January, 1998
Gamelan Son Of Lion: Sad/Happy (D. Goode)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Daniel Goode
SET TWO
John Cage: Music Walk
The Works for Piano I
Mode Records/1995
piano, short radio, objects: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, Mass., March 1993
John Cage: Inlets (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
conch shells with water: Paeder Mercier, Mel Mercier, J. Cage
recorded at Roubaix, France, 10/27/1983; dance: Inlets (1977), Merce Cunningham Dance Company
SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Or 4 People (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
piano, melodica: C. Wolff; live electronics, violin, harmonica: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded in New York, 7/23/1999; dance: Rune (1959), Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Christian Wolff: Snowdrop
Tilbury Pieces/Snowdrop
Mode Records/1999
violin, viola: Dimitrios Polisoidis; piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; recorded at Sender Freies, Berlin, May, 1996
SET FOUR
So Percussion & Matmos: Swamp
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
So Percussion & Trollstilt: Matisse's Garden Lesson
Five (and-a-half)Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007
recorded at Princeton University
Chen Yi: Jing Marimba
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Gordon Stout; recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, 7/05/09
SET FIVE
Neil Rolnick: MONO Prelude
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
laptop, voice: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, February, 2010
Madelyn Byrne: Arrival
Sounding Out! (DVD extracts)
Everglade Records/2010
SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: La Neige
a. Neige 1-2
b. Neige 5-3
c. Neige 4-2
d. Regarder la neige tomber
Récits de neige
performed by Ensemble SuperMusique, recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal, 2008; texts: a: Dyane Raymond, b: Lise Hétu, c: Luc Proulx; d: Miranda Nienson
SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: Caritas
Source--Music of the Avant Garde (Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971)
Pogus Productions/2009
PDP-10 computer, Buchla Electronic Music System: L. Austin, realized 1969 for the Artificial Intelligence Project, Stanford University
SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Negro Hall
Lisbon Concert
New Albion Records/1996
piano: T. Riley; recorded at the Festival dos Capuchos, Teatro São Luís, Lisbon, Portugal, 7/16/95
--FIN--
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Hearne, Small, Rolnick
Another selection from Katrina Ballads by Ted Hearne. This one is called "Anderson Cooper." Like the rest of the texts from "Katrina Ballads," Hearne uses words straight from the media at the time of Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005.
This is another performance of Washington D.C. pianist Haskell Small of "Lullaby of War."
ETHEL performs Neil Rolnick's "Gene Pool" featured on his latest CD "Extended Family" (Innova Recordings)
Click on videos to watch directly from YouTube.
This is another performance of Washington D.C. pianist Haskell Small of "Lullaby of War."
ETHEL performs Neil Rolnick's "Gene Pool" featured on his latest CD "Extended Family" (Innova Recordings)
Click on videos to watch directly from YouTube.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Martian Gardens for 01/16/2011
WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
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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
--FIN--
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
--FIN--
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
--FIN--
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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