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Martian Gardens Episode 1205
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 14, 2024
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Hour 1

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Tina Davidson: Leap
I. Uncertain Ground (5:16)
II. Sudden Passage (5:51)
Barefoot
Music by Tina Davidson
New Focus Recordings/2024
Jasper String Quartet (violin: J. Freivogel; viola: Andrew Gonzalez; cello: Rachel Handerson Freivogel; piano: Natalie Zhu; recorded at Gore Recital Hall, University of Delaware, September 15-17, 2023; composition year: 2021; total time: 11:07

SET ONE
Formosa Quartet: Hungarian Folk Songs (1st 1/2) (D. Wilson)
a. Dudatánc (Bagpipe Dance) (3:48)
b. Ballada (Ballad) (4:00)
c. A Rátóti Legények (The Rátót Lads) (1:39)
d. Láncz, Láncz (Chains, Chains) (1:17)
From Hungary to Taiwan (various composers)
Bridge Records/2018
Formosa Quartet (violins: Jasmine Lin, Wayne Lee; viola: Che Yen Chen; cello: Deborah Pae); recorded at Nichols Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, October, 2017; composer: Dana Wilson; composition year: 2008; total selections time: 10:34

Lydia Kakabadse: Nomadic Dances
I. Ceremonial Gathering (2:21)
II. Herding (3:08)
III. Trekking (2:40)
Kefi
Choral & Chamber Works
Divine Art Recordings Group/2024
(for string quartet); The Rossetti Ensemble with Leon Bosch (double bass: Leon Bosch; cello: Tim Lowe; violin: Sara Trickey; viola: Sarah-Jane Bradley); recorded at St. George’s Church, Harrow, London, November 28, 2023; composition year: 2020; total time: 8:09

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Henry Brant: Nomads
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 2
Innova Recordings/2004
Oberlin Wind Ensemble and Bass Ensemble, conductor: Gene Young; guest conductor: Henry Brant; voice: Steve Fallon; saxophone: Dave Dimmock; drumset: Adam Rudolph; recorded at Finney Chapel, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Ohio, October 10, 1974; composition year: 1974; time: 17:00

Hour 2

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Haskell Small: A Journey in Silence
Reflections on the Book of Hours (2nd 1/2)
a. Sext (2:34)
b. None (4:39)
c. Vespers (6:16)
d. Compline (3:44)
e. The Great Silence (2:44)
Book of Hours
MSR Classics/2016
piano: Haskell Small; recorded at the Westmoreland United Church of Christ, Bethesda, Maryland, November 11, 2015; composition year: 2015; total selections time: 20:00

SET TWO
Stacy Garrop: Terra Nostra, Part I (selections)
Part I: Creation of the World
a. On thine own child (2:28)
b. Smile O voluptuous cool-breathed earth! (4:16)
c. A Blade of Grass (2:06)
Terra Nostra
Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
Çedille Records/2024
soloists: soprano: Michelle Areyzaga; mezzo-soprano: Leah Dexter; tenor: Jesse Donner; baritone: David Govertsen;; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra Chorale & Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Uniting Voices youth choir, conductor: Stephen Alltop; libretto: Stacy Garrop (a. Percy Bysshe Shelley; b. , c. Walt Whitman); recorded at PIck-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois, February 6 and 8, 2023; composition year: 2015; total selections time: 8:50

Tsippi Fleischer: The Gown of Night
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
electronic collage, sound source: voices of Bedouin schoolchildren from Rahat; text: Muhammad Ghana’im, The Gown of Night; recorded at the Beer Sheva Conservatory, edited at Yaakov Aviram’s studio, Tel Aviv; composition year: 1988; time: 2:51

James Dashow: Eureka
Archimedes, Act I, Scene III
Archimedes: A Planetarium Opera
Neuma Records/2021
Archimedes cast: baritone: Michael Kelly as Archimedes; tenor: Martin Bakari as Marcellus; bass: Adrian Rosas as Hieron; soprano: Jennifer Zetlan as Demiurge; tenor: Brian Giebler as Demiurge; soprano: Jennifer Zetlan as Slave Girl 1; mezzo soprano: Toby Newman as Slave Girl 2; child: Madeleine Albus; voice of the Prime Mover: Philip Kerr; Flauti dolci (recorders): Antonio Politano; chorus: Nicholas Isherwood, Brian Giebler, Toby Newman, Adrian Rosas, James Wright, Jennifer Zetlan; libretto: Cary Plotkin, Ted Weiss; electronic music, concept: James Dashow; composition years: 2000-2008; selection time: 8:47 

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Benjamin Boretz and Elaine Barkin: Rochelle Owens “Session Two” (excerpt)
Open Space 56 (Hoffman/Boretz/Barkin)
Open Space/2023
piano: Benjamin Boretz; voice: Elaine Barkin; text: Rochelle Owens, “Strawberries mit Cream,” recorded at Boretz’s home studio, Barrytown, New York, January 7, 1980; excerpt time: 8:00

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Jon Nelson & Metalofonico: Khal Perr (I. Xenakis)
Metalofonico
New Music for Brass and Production
New Focus Recordings/2024
Metalofonico (trumpets: Louis Hanzlik, Jeffrey Luke, Brian Mcwhorter, Jon Nelson, Hiro Noguchi, Wade Weast; horns: Gregory Evans, Daniel Grabois, Seth Orgel, Jeffrey Scott; trombones: Miles Anderson, John Faieta, James Miller, Stefan Sanders; tubas: John Manning, Raymond Stewart; percussion: Craig Betterman, Mathew Felski, Anthony Miranda, Rin Ozaki, Satoshi Takagi, Andrew Wendzikowski, Jan Williams; electric guitar: Ken Pasiack; synthesizer: Michael Orland; conductors: Magnus Martensson, Jon Nelson, Erik Ona); recorded at Slee Concert Hall, University of Buffalo, June 2001, October 2002; composer: Iannis Xenakis; composition year: 1983; time: 9:42

Iannis Xenakis: Akrata
Xenakis Editions 2 — Ensemble Music 2
Mode Records/1996
(for 8 winds and 8 brass); ST-X Ensemble Xenakis USA, conductor: Charles Zachary Bornstein; recorded at St. Peter’s Church, New York, April — October 1996; composition years: 1964-1965; time: 11:26

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Robert Scott Thompson: Arioso (Shadowed Stasis — Autumn Bird)
MP3
Aucourant Records/2024
electronic music: RST; recorded at the composer’s studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2024; time: 12:20

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Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Still, Again
A short chamber opera
La marée
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic); soprano: Peyee Chen; text, processing, interactive system, and multitrack tape: Pierre Alexandre Tremblay; realized and recorded at the composer’s studio and the studios of the University of Huddersfield, UK; composition years: 2012, 2013; time: 14:07

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