LISTEN HERE — SPOTIFY PODCAST
Martian Gardens Episode 1218
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 6, 2024 (files to be uploaded)
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com 
(or just leave a comment below)
Radio4All archive (search “Martian Gardens”)

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Walter Piston: Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano No. 2
I. Molto leggiero e cappricioso (5:06)
II. Adagio (6:51)
III. Vigoroso (4:09)
New England Trios (Piston/Bernstein/Perera)
Bridge Records/2020
violin: Joel Pitchen; cello: Marie-Voicy Pelletier; piano: Yu Mei Wei; recorded at Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, January 2019; composition years: 1935; total time: 16:38

SET ONE
Kate Soper: The Romance of the Rose, Act I (selections)
a. Prologue, Part I (4:39)
b. Prologue, Part II (4:00)
The Romance of the Rose — An Opera
New Focus Recordings/2024
The Romance of the Rose — tenor: Lucas Steele; baritone: Phillip Bullock; soprano: Anna Schubert; mezzo-soprano: Devony Smith; soprano: Ariadne Greif; baritone: Ty Bouque; The Wet Ink Ensemble (clarinets: Rane Moore; saxophones: Erin Rogers; piano, keyboard: Laura Barger; percussion: Ian Antonio; violin, viola: Modney; cello: Michael Nicolas; electric guitar: James Moore; harp: Jacqueline Kerrod; electronics: Sam Pluata), conductor: Eric Wubbels; libretto: Kate Soper; inspiration: Le Roman de La Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; additional texts: Christine de Pizan, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson; recorded at Oktaven Audio, August 11-13, 2023; composition year: 2021; selections time: 8:39

Harry Partch:  The Dreamer That Remains — A Study in Loving
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
New World Records/2005 (orig. CRI/1997) 
The Harry Partch Ensemble: Orchestra with Partch instruments, conductor; Jack Logan; intoning voice: Harry Partch; narrator, Brash Musician: Mark Hoffman; The Voice, Second Musician: Danlee Mitchell; chorus: Katherine Bjornson, Alexis Glatly, Michael Crosier; text: Harry Partch; recorded in San Diego, California, 1972; composition year: 1972; time: 10:29

SET TWO
Daniel Lippel: Utopian Prelude
Adjacence (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
electric guitar, microtonal classical guitar: Daniel Lippel; electronics: Ryan Streber; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York; composition year: 2024; time: 3:05

Ben Johnston: The Tavern (selections)
a. The Many Wines (3:15)
b. Burnt Kabob (3:13)
Ruminations – Settings of Rumi & Billie Holiday 
MicroFest Records/2014
voice, microtonal guitar: John Schneider; text: Rumi; composition year: 1998; time: 6:28

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
John Forshee: Apokatastasis 
Open Space 48 (Forshee/Boretz)
Open Space/2021
(for ten instruments and computer-generated sounds); flute: Paul Nagem; clarinet: Sergei Vassiliev; bass clarinet: Ian Buckspan; horn: Sarah Ford; trombone: Andrew Freidrichs; percussion: Staci Toma Cotten; piano: Kelly Zuercher; violin: Martha Muehleisen; cello: Amy Kolb; contrabass: Marc Neihof; computer: John Forshee, conductor: Colin McAllister; composition year: unlisted; excerpt time: 24:08

SINGLE PLAY
Rick Baitz: Music for a Sacred Space
Rivers of January
Neuma Records/2024
violin solo: Cornelius Durfallo; cello: Audrey Chen; percussion: William Hopkins, Jakob Schoenfeld; piano: Yoon Lee; electronics: Rick Baitz; recorded at Rick Baitz Music, New York City; Center for Innovation in the Arts, Julliard School, New York City, MacIntyre Music, New York City; composition year: 2021; time: 17:23

SET THREE
Cornelius Dufallo: Incantation
Dream Streets
Innova Recordings/2009
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; recorded at BiCoastal Studios, Ossing, New York; time: 2:48

Horatiu Rădulescu: Lux Animae, Op. 97
The Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2019
cello: Catherine Marie Tunnell; recorded at Hardstudios, Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland, June 28-29, 2018; composition year: 1996; time: 6:26

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Malcolm Goldstein: Autumn
The Seasons — Vermont
XI Records/1998
(for small ensemble and tape collage); double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982; selection time: 12:09

Christopher Trapani: Bombay (Alap)*
Noise Uprising
A Polystylistic Atlas
New World Records/2024
Zwerm Ensemble — vocal: Sofia Jernberg; quarter tone shruti box: Kobe Van Cauwenbergh; dan bau: Toon Callier; lap steel guitar: Christopher Trapani; GizmoTele: Johannes Westendorp; recorded at Studio 3, DE SINGEL International Arts Center, Antwerp, Belgium, May 15-18, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 9:35
*from Decolonizing the Ear

SET FIVE
Dominique Bassal: Babylone, les regrets
Poupées Mathématiques
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
(for 7.1-channel fixed medium); electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal; premiered at the Électrochoc 3 concert, Studio multimédia of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, December 5, 2013; time: 8:25

Laurie Anderson: Night in Baghdad
Bright Red & Tight Rope
Warner Bros./1994
vocals, lyrics: Laurie Anderson; ceramic drums, tubular percussion, shaker, triangle: Cyro Baptista; keyboards: Peter Scherer; principal recordings: The Lobby studio and Skyline Studios, New York City; time: 3:23

Neil Rolnick: The Real Thief of Baghdad
Shadow Quartet
Innova Recordings/2005
intoning voice, poem: Tyrone Henderson; computer music: Neil Rolnick; composition year: 2003; time: 4:54

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

— FIN —