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Martian Gardens Episode 1192
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
April 21, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Florence B. Price: Song to the Dark Virgin
Wide as Heaven (various artists)
A Century of Song by Black American Composers
New World Records/2024
baritone: James Martin; piano: Lynn Raley; recorded at Rubendall Recital Hall, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; July 12-14, 2022; composition year: 1941; text: Langston Hughes; time: 2:01

SINGLE PLAY
Justin Dello Joio: Oceans Apart
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Oceans Apart
Bridge Records/2023
piano: Garrick Ohlsson; Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Alan Gilbert; recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston, January 2023; composition year: 2022; time: 19:12

SET ONE
John Young: An Angel at Mons
Histoires de soldats
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for 15.1 channel fixed medium and spoken word); voice: John Ewings, 1980, age 101; realized at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester, premiered at Salle Claude-Champagne, University of Montreal, April 25, 2014; time: 11:23

Alvin Curran/Clark Coolidge: Mine
Maritime Rites (Curran & Co.)
New World Records/2004
poetry improvisation: Clark Coolidge; maritime sounds of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard recorded and arranged by Alvin Curran; produced for NPR, 1984; total time: 11:09

John Oswald: Timefields and Maritides (excerpt)
Timefields and Maritides
MusicWorks Magazine/2006
plunderphonics: John Oswald; excerpt time: 8:00

Hour 2

SET TWO
The Crossing: Sumptuous Planet: A Secular Mass (selections) (D. Shapiro)
a. Earth — Sumptuous Planet (4:56)
b. The Adoration — Staggering, Elegant, Beautiful Thing (3:49)
Sumptuous Planet
A Secular Mass
New Focus Recordings/2023
The Crossing vocal ensemble, conductor: Donald Nally; recorded at St. Peter’s Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, January 2023; premiered at the Month of Moderns festival at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, July 8, 2016; composer: David Shapiro; texts on selections: Richard Dawkins; composition year: 2022; total selections time: 8:45

The Crossing: Watershed (selections) (N. Cline)
IV. To encourage the habits of industry (4:40)
V. Threads of of the community fabric (3:16)
VI. Rain follows the plow (2:41)
Motion Studies
Navona Recordings/2024
The Crossing vocal ensemble, conductor: Donald Nally; recorded at St. Peter’s Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, November 2021; composer: Nicholas Cline; texts: Nicholas Cline; composition years: 2018, revised 2021; total selections time: 10:37

SET THREE
Kate Soper: The Hunt (selections)
a. On the Unicorn (0:52)
b. First Sighting (0:45)
c. Rue’s Solo (2:27)
d. Live Stream #2; Day Forty-Three (1:28)
e. King’s Commentary #2 (0:42)
f. Riddle #2 (virginity) (1:07)
The Hunt — Opera in One Act
New Focus Recordings/2024|
music director: Mila Henry; soprano, violin: Hirona Amamiya; soprano, ukulele: Christiana Cole, Brett Umlauf; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, October 16-17, 2023; composition year: 2023; total selections time: 7:23
Inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn

Natalia Cappa: Kenkos (A. Crespo)
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for soprano and electronics); soprano: Natalia Cappa; recorded at Estudio PuntoAr, Buenos Aires, Argentina; composer: Agustina Crespo; composition year: 2022; time: 7:14

Field recording: Chirimía and Caja
Traditional Music of Peru, Vol. 4 — Lambayeque
Smithsonian Folkways/1996
instruments: chirimia (double reed oboe-type); caja (box drum); music recorded during the final phase of the procession on the central day of the Festival of the Virgen de las Mercedes, District of Incahausi, Ferreñafe, Peru, September 24, 1990; time: 1:35

SINGLE PLAY
Glass Farm Ensemble: Spots (F. Rzewski) (selections)
a. Spots 1 (1:14)
b. Spots 8 (1:12)
c. Spots 5 (1:09)
d. Spots 2 (1:14)
e. Spots 9 (1:12)
Nieuw Amsterdam New York
Nuema Records/2024
Glass Farm Ensemble (bassoon: Jos Lammerse, Freek Sluijs, Margreet Bongers; violin: Emi Ohi Resnick; piano: Yvonne Troxler; percussion: Mark Haeldermans; recorded at Broadcasting Music Center, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 2023-2024; composer: Frederic Rzewski; composition year: 1986; total selections time: 6:00

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Joseph Benzola: Untitled Original
Odds and Sods 2020-2024
Amanita Music/2024
all instruments and recording: Joseph Benzola; time: 6:11

SET FOUR
Craig Pepples: Junkyard
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
synthesizers: Craig Pepples; software: David Hicks; composition year: 3:29

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Side Two)
Subotnick Volume 2 — Electronic Works
Mode Records/2004
Buchla Electronic Music Box: Morton Subotnick; recorded 1975, Mills College; time: 14:24

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Set Sail on the Solstice (excerpt)
The Sky and the Sea
MPS Music & Video/2021
computer music: Carey Nutman; excerpt time: 12:00 (12:00 — 24:00)

Roger Reynolds: Sketchbook (excerpt)
(for The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
For A Reason
Neuma Records/2023
(for low female voice, piano, and electronic processing); voice, piano: Liz Pearse; text: Milan Kundera; computer enhancement: Paul Hembree; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, June 22-23, 2022; composition year: 1985; excerpt time: 8:00 (00:00 — 08:00)

SINGLE PLAY
Salvatore Martirano: SalMar at IRCAM (excerpt)
Experimental Music Studios 50th Anniversary (1958-2008)
School of Music, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign/2008
SalMar Construction: Salvatore Martirano, IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music), Paris; composition year: 1984; time: 5:54

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