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Martian Gardens Episode 1201
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 5, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for the Piano
I. Presto, Molto Moderato, Presto, Scherzando (5:24)
II. Largo, Moderato, Molto Moderato (11:15)
Complete Solo Works for Piano
Bridge Records/2017
piano: Andrew Cooperstock; recorded at Grusin Recital Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2015; composition years: 1938; published 1979; total time: 16:39

Yvar Mikhashoff: Seven Anniversaries, Parts I & VII (L. Bernstein)
I. For Aaron Copland (1:44)
VII. For William Schuman (0:46)
Panorama of American Piano Music (various composers)
From Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; Panorama recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composer: Leonard Bernstein; composition years: 1943, revised 1954; total time: 2:30

SINGLE PLAY
Sarah Hennies: Clock Dies (excerpt)
The Motor Tapes
New World Records/2024
Talea Ensemble (flute: Barry R. Crawford; clarinet: Marianne Gythfeldt; piano: Stephen Gosling; percussion: Alex Lipowski, Matthew Gold; violin: Karen Kim; viola: Hannah Levinson; cello: Chris Gross), conductor: James Baker; composition year: 2021; excerpt time: 14:30 (15:30-30:00)

SET TWO
Marianne Gythfeldt: Little History of Photography (E. Lyon)
Only Human — Electroacoustic Works for Clarinet (various composers)|
New Focus Recordings/2018
(for clarinet and electronics); clarinet: Marianne Gythfeldt; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York; composer: Eric Lyon; composition year: 2015; time: 9:21

Bandwidth: Prologue, with Verve (Sextet, Mvt. 1 (I. Auruco)
Where Songs Go at Night (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
Bandwidth ensemble (flute: Cobus du Tolt; oboe: Kemp Jernigan; B-flat clarinet: Romie de Guise-Langlois; E-flat alto saxophone: Jonathan Hultin-Cohen; horn in F: Joshua Michal; bassoon: Rémy Taghavi); recorded at Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, January 23-24, 2023; composer: Ingrid Arauco; composition year: 2021; total time: 3:05

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Manuel Zurria: Bobby J. (L Crane)
Fame de Vento
ANTS Records/2023
(for electric guitar, arr. for 14 blown bottles); bottle blowing: Manuel Zurria; Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; composer: Lawrence Crane; arr. Manuel Zurria; composition year: 1999; time: 4:23

SET THREE
Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales (selections)
a. Step 10 & 11: Very High Waves/Exceptionally High Waves (3:18)
b. Step 12: The Air is Filled with Foam and Spray/Postlude (2:09)
c. Step 2 & 3: Small and Large Wavelets (4:10)
Beaufort Scales
Cold Blue Music/2024
(for vocal octet, electronics, and visual projection); voices: Lorelei Ensemble; texts:Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort; recorded at Dimension Sound, Boston, November 5-6, 2023; composition year: 2022; total selections time: 9:37

Morton Feldman:
a. Snow Falls (2:24)
b. Legato (3:30)
Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
New Albion Records/1989
voices: Joan La Barbara; text: Frank O’Hara (Wind, 1957), recorded in Los Angeles; composition year: 1982; total selections time: 5:54

Kattt Atchley and Ron Heglin: Duo No. 7
Duo
Atchely-Heglin/2019
voices: Katt Atchley, Ron Heglin; recorded in Berkeley, sound designer: Philip Perkins; California, January 16, 2018; time: 3:53

SET FOUR
Cynthia Folio: Lilacs!
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014
composer, flute: Cynthia Folio; composition year: 2014; time: 2:54
for Robert Morris

Philip Blackburn: Lilacs and Lightning
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
piano: Emanuele Arciuli; virtual rhythmicon; recorded at Digressione Studio, Bari, Italy, December 2022; composition year: 2012; time: 4:34

Stuart Saunders Smith: A River Rose
I. (2:45)
II. (3:10)
III. (1:40)
IV. (2:43)
V. (3:02)
A River Rose
Music for Violin
New World Records/2014
violin: Ari Yoshioka; vibraphone: José “Zeca” Lacerda; recorded at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County; Fall 2013; composition year: 2005; total time: 13:21

In memory of Stuart Saunders Smith (March 16, 1948 — June 3, 2024)

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Ben Johnston: Knocking Piece
Percussion Sampler (various artists)
11 West Records/2023
(for two percussionists); piano exterior, piano interior: Sylvia Smith, Lee Hinkle; composition year: 1962; time: 8:11

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Honstein: Down Down Baby
a. Follow the Leader (6:30)
b. Daydream 1 (1:02)
c. Singing Lesson (3:15)
d. Strange Dance (3:31)
e. Daydream 2 (1:05)
f. Down Down Baby (5:37)
Lost and Found
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for cello and percussion); New Morse Code (cello: Hannah Collins; percussion: Michael Compitello); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York; January-September, 2017, November 2021; composition year: 2016; time: 22:00

SET FIVE
Darren Copeland: On Schedule
Perdu et retrouvé
empreintes DIGITALes/2004
electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Ontario, 2003, premiered at the Ambient Ping series, Club Nia, Toronto (performance on two computers: DreamState — Scott MacGregor Moore, Jamie Todd); composition year: 2003; time: 12:22

Piero Milesi: Avanti La Tre
Within Himself
Music for Films, Installations, Water, and Fireworks
Cuneiform Records/2000
samples, sampler, synthesizer: Piero Milesi; recorded at Deffenu Studio, Nuoro, Sardinia; from the film Passaggi by Luca Scarzella; composition years: 1991, 1995; time: 7:40

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