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Martian Gardens Episode 1224
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
April 20, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Easter Dawning
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume Five
Bridge Records/2001
carillon bells: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, September 2001; composition year: 1992; time: 4:06

SET ONE
Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata
a. Sinfonia (2:28)
b. Aubade (2:45)
c. Mary’s Song at the Tomb (1:58)
d. Narrative (1:35)
e. Alleluia (2:36)
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
contralto: Michelle Rivard; tenor: Brian Staufenbiel; University of California, Santa Cruz, Chamber Singers; California Parallèle Ensemble and members of the UCSC orchestra; conductor: Nicole Paiement; text: uncredited; recorded at the recital hall of the University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001; total time: 11:32

Henry Cowell: Sound Form No. 1
Dancing with Henry
New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
members of the California Parallèle Ensemble (flute: Leta Miller; clarinet: Mark Brandeburg; bassoon: Jane Orzel; percussion: Russel Greenberg, Michael Strunk); recorded at the Recital Hall of the University of California Santa Cruz, January 2000; composition year: 1937; time: 4:51

Henry Cowell: Reel No. 2
Dancing with Henry
New Discoveries in the Music of Henry Cowell
Mode Records/2001
members of the California Parallèle Ensemble (flute: Leta Miller; clarinet: Mark Brandeburg; bassoon: Jane Orzel; percussion: Russel Greenberg, Michael Strunk); recorded at the Recital Hall of the University of California Santa Cruz, January 2000; composition year: 1934; time: 3:30

SET TWO
Coalescent Quartet: Unrelenting Universe (Z. Browning)
The Wall Between Us (Is Where We Meet)
Neuma Records/2025
Coalescent Quartet (soprano saxophone: Nathan Bogert; alto saxophone: Michael Shults; tenor saxophone: Nick Zoulek; baritone saxophone: Drew Whitling); recorded summer 2023; composer: Zack Browning; composition year: 2018; time: 5:41

New Thread Quartet: Avalanche Lily, Part I: Saxifraga (A.B. Kirsten)
Saxifraga
New Focus Recordings/2025
New Thread Quartet (soprano saxophone: Geoffrey Landman; alto saxophone: Kristen McKeon; tenor saxophone: Erin Rogers; baritone saxophone: Zach Herchen); recorded at Dreamflower Acoustic, Yonkers, New York; composer: Amy Beth Kirsten; composition year: 2019; selection time: 5:55

Ken Field: Darkness into Light
The Canopy
Neuma Records/2024
saxophones and other instruments: Ken Field; music for The Canopy, Joanie Block & Selmadanse; recorded at the Studio at Black Hill, Orleans, Massachusetts; time: 7:31

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Raven Chacon: Biyán
Voiceless Mass
New World Records/2025
members of Present Music (flute: Jennifer Clippert; clarinet: Zachary Good; percussion: Alex Wier; violin: Carla Kihlstedt; cello: Adrien Zitoun; recorded at Tanner/Monagle, Milwaukee, October 16, 2024; composition year: 2011; time: 15:54

SET THREE
Manuel Zurria: Svarstyklés — The Scales (excerpt) (R. Mažulis)
Fame di Vento (various composers)
ANTS Records/2023
(for six flutes) flutes: Manuel Zurria; Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; composer: Rytis Mažulis; arr. Zurria; composition year: 2020; excerpt time: 7:00 (7:00 – 14:00 of 27:57)

Henri Pousseur and Roberto Fabbriciani: Zeus joueur de flûtes (excerpt)
(Célébrant les dix octannies d’Orphée étoilé)
Henry Pousseur–Works for Flute
Mode Records/2019
(for flute, tape, and live electronics); flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; title, inspiration: Michel Butor; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2014; composition year: 2006; excerpt time: 7:00 (3:30 – 10:30 of 28:00)

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute (various composers)
Composers Recordings, Inc./1999
flute: Maggi Payne; interactive electronics: Mark Trayle; realized at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California; composer: Mark Trayle; composition year: 1997; time: 6:47

SINGL PLAY
Leo Kupper: Rezas Populares do Brazil (Movements 1-3)
a. Meu Anjo (2:29)
b. Elohim (3:28)
c. O Ar Vivo (3:16)
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
(for voices and computer processing); mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; realized at Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives, Brussels, Belgium; composition year: 1998; total selections time: 10:12

Hour 3

SET FOUR
J.K. Randall: 6 Demonstrations (selections)
a. Pitched-Derived Rhythm V (2:07)
b. Pitched-Derived Rhythm VI (2:46)
Open Space 40 — bab — jkr — erb (Boretz/Randall/Barkin)
Open Space/2019
Open Space Chamber Players (flute: Matt Ross; clarinet: Viktor Toth; cellos: Lauren Peacock, Alana Shannon, piano: Corey Chang); composition year: 1961; time: 4:53

Elaine R. Barkin: A soundtext for Jim Randall
Open Space 40 — bab – jkr – erb (Boretz/Randall/Barkin)
Open Space/2019
voice, text, electronics: Elaine Radoff Barkin; composition year: 1990 (for the Society for Music Theory’s celebratory Jim Randall session, Oakland, November 9, 1990); time: 21:00

SINGLE PLAY
John Young: Once He Was a Gunner (1st 1/2)
a. Prelude (1:49)
b. Sora Valley (1:42)
c. The Canadian Club (4:07)
d. First Civilians (3:09)
e. Faenza (3:18)
f. Flashback: El Alamein Memory (0:46)
g. Villanova (1:18)
h. The Truck (2:27)
i. The Shrapnel (0:46)
j. Balsarono (1:15)
k. What was his name, now? (2:03)
l. The Brickworks
Histoires de soldats
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for stereo fixed medium; interview); interviewee: Alexander Young; realized at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; premiered on the Sound Lounge program, Radio New Zealand Concert, October 3, 2020; composition year: 2020; time: 27:39

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