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Martian Gardens Episode 1228
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
June 2, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Guy Klucevsek: Samba D Hiccup
Manhattan Cascade (various composers)
Composers Recordings, Inc./1992
accordion: Guy Klucevsek; composition year: 1986; time: 5:24

Guy Klucevsek: Hungarian Hummingbird
Teetering on the Verge of Normalcy
Starkland/2016
violin: Todd Reynolds; accordion: Guy Klucevsek; recorded at John Kilgore Recordings, New York City, Spring 2015; time: 2:32

In memory of Guy Klucevsek (February 26, 1947 – May 22, 2025) 

SET TWO
Peter Garland: Plain Songs “Love Comes Quietly” Mvt. 1
Plain Songs “Love Comes Quietly” (After Robert Creeley)
Cold Blue Music/2025
organ: Carson Cooman; recorded at Memorial Church of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; October 14-15, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 6:40

Walter Zimmermann: Numbers
Voces
Mode Records/2022
KNM Ensemble (mezzo-soprano: Tehila Nini Goldstien; alto flute: Rebecca Lenton; oboe d’amore: Gudrun Reschke; basset horn: Theo Nabicht; violin: Ekkehard Windrich; viola: Kirstin Maria Pientka; cello: Cosima Gerhardt; dulcimer: Alexandre Babel); text: Robert Creeley (in collaboration with Robert Indiana); recorded at St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin, June 22, 2013; composition year: 2000; time: 14:54

SET THREE
Dominick Argento: Three Sonnets of Petrarch
I. Sonnet 63 (3:05)
II. Sonnet 164 (3:55)
III. Sonnet 300 (3:27)
A Few Words About Chekhov
Songs and Cycles of Dominick Argento
Bridge Records/2024
baritone: Jesse Blumberg; piano: Martin Katz; recorded at The Woods Recording Studio, Woodstock, New York, January 2024; texts: Petrarch, The Canzoniere; composition year: 2007; total time: 10:27

Katharina Rosenberger: Tempi Agitati (selections)
a. Vive Faville Prelude (0:34)
b. Vive Faville (5:18)
Tempi Agitati
Mode Records/2022
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart; text: Petrarch, The Canzoniere, Sonnet 258; recorded at SWR2, German Radio Stuttgart, October 25 & 26, 2016; composition year: 2016; selections time: 5:52

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Susan Botti: River Spirits: Scent
River Spirits
New Focus Recordings/2025
voices: Katherine Lerner Lee, Mary Bonhag, Susan Botti; bass recorder, tenor recorder, zampogna bagpipes, Irish flute, sackbut: Dan Meyers; electric viol de gamba: Robert Eisenstein, John Mark Rozendaal; double bass: Evan Premo; percussion: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music; composition year: 2025; time: 5:00

The Astra Choir: Three Statements (W. Ogdon)
I. The Last Evocation (2:10)
II. Madrigal (1:21)
III. A Clear Midnight (2:00)
We, Like Salangan Swallows… (various composers)
A Choral gallery of Morton Feldman and his contemporaries
New World Records/2018
The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; recorded at Carmelite Church, Middle Park, Melbourne, Australia, May 27, 2016; texts: I. Walt Whitman; II. Thomas Campion; III. Walt Whitman; composer: Will Ogdon; composition year: 1956; total time: 5:39

SET FIVE
Anna Rubin: The Beekeepers
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
(for cello and fixed media); cello: Michael Schmidt; recorded at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 2011; time: 10:57

Robert Carl: Building the Hive
The Calm Bee in the Busy Hive, Mvt. I
The Geography of Loss
New World Records/2016
solo guitar: Christopher Ladd; guitar 2: Don Hartington; vibraphone: Michael Anderson; flute: Michelle Stockman; clarinet: Brian Nekoloff; trumpet: Jess Turner; harp: Haley Hewitt; piano: Cihan Yucel; violin: Gwyneth Haydock; viola: Laura Krentzman; cello: Haeyoon Shin; conductor: Matthew Aubin; recorded at the Hartt School, Hartford, January 19, 2011; composition years: 2009, 2010; selection time: 8:00

SET SIX
Jeannine Wagar: So, Fly Sky High
Into the Night
Neuma Records/2025
electroacoustic music: Jeannine Wagar; time: 4:03

Eleanor Hovda: Boundaries
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
(for four flutes and four basses); flutes: Janis Weller, Irene Pruzan, Holly Clemans, Susan Morrissey; basses: Nancy Bjork, Michael Smith, Noel Chelberg, Greg Hippen; performed at the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, March 1989; composition year: 1989; time: 7:11

Carlton Gamer: Duetude
Milton Babbitt — A Composers’ Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
flute: Paul Nagem; clarinet: Sergei Vassiliev; composition year: 1959, revised 1998; time: 7:34

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Pulse: Spring Awaits You
Pulse
New Focus Recordings/2025
soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone: Brad Wagner; piano: Anthony Fuoco; double bass: Aidan Plank; drums: Dustin May; recorded at Suma Recording Studio, Painesville, Ohio; composer: Aidan Plank; time: 5:15

SET SEVEN
Sascia Pellegrini: Against Definitions
Against Definitions
The Repository/2025
sounds, processing: Sascia Pellegrini; time: 7:07

Old Castle: Tulips in the Wind
Artwork 51
Zoharum/2022
sounds, processing: Robin Storey, Robert L. Pepper, Shaun Sandor; time: 5:57

Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove I
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
computers, synthesizer: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, May-June 1974; composition year: 1974; time: 5:20

SINGLE PLAY
Elizabeth Anderson: Les forges de l’invisble
a. Movement I (7:41)
b. Movement II (6:19)
L’envol
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized in 2002-2003 at the multichannel electroacoustic studio of City University London, and the Studio Akousma of the Academy of Soignies, Belgium; premiered February 25, 2003, at the Electroacoustic Concert at City University London; sound material developed at Centre de création musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), Paris, 2000; total time: 14:00

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Delio: Sound/Shivering/Silence
I. 1:03
II. 1:23
III. 1:58
IV. 1:37
V. 3:30
Anti-Paysage
Neuma Records/2025
(for solo percussion); percussion, voice: Zeca Lacerda; texts: Cid Corman; composition year: 2013; total time: 9:31

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