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PROGRAM TWENTY-SIX: "Serial Guitar"
 First Broadcast: 04.14.06

In “Serial Guitar” CrossSound Radio explores works by some of the most prominent American composers of the last 50 years.  Many of them come to the guitar for the first time in these compositions – mostly the bidding of guitarist David Starobin in the 80’s – with strong musical identities already forged in the Western Art Music tradition.  The result is a collection of pieces of music that one might not expect to hear on the guitar – an instrument better known for music associated with classical music and with traditions from Spain, South America, and American folk and rock.  This is the first of three CrossSound Radio programs that explore works for guitar, both acoustic and electric. Works by John Anthony Lennon, Mel Powell, Milton Babbitt, Tom Flaherty, Roger Reynolds, Mario Davidovsky, Elliott Carter, Barbara Kolb, Il-Ryun Chung.
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Recording:		 Zingari: Fortunteller, Two Thieves, Call of the Maiden’s Name, Play of the Sixes, and Firefeast for St. Sara (1994)
John Anthony Lennon (1950 USA)
David Saratobin, guitar, and the SMU Meadows Symphony Orchestra, David Milnes, conductor
Bridge Records  
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Recording:		 “Setting” (1986)
Mel Powell (1923 USA)
David Saratobin, guitar
Bridge Records
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“Soli e Duettini” (1989)
Milton Babbitt (1916 USA)
William Anderson and Oren Fader on guitars
Bridge Records
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Recording:		 Cross-Currents: Alternating, Interlude, Undulating
Tom Flaherty (1950 USA)
Matthew Elgart and Peter Yates, guitar
Bridge Records
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 The Behaviour of Mirrors (1986)
Roger Reynolds (USA)
Todd Seelye, guitar
Bridge Records
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 Synchronisms #10 for guitar and tape (1992)
Mario Davidovsky (1934 Argentina)
David Starobin, guitar
Bridge Records
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 “Changes” (1983)
Elliott Carter (USA)
David Starobin, guitar
Bridge Records
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Recording:		 Composition for Guitar (1984)
Milton Babbitt (USA)
David Starobin, guitar
Bridge Records
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Another’s Fandango (1981)
John Anthony Lennon (USA)
David Starobin, guitar
Bridge Records  
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 Three Lullabies: Falling, as sleep falls, in the innocent air (1980)
Barbara Kolb (USA)
David Starobin, guitar
Bridge Records
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 “Kaya” (1992)
Il-Ryun Chung (Germany 1964)
Carlo Domeniconi and Silvia Ocougne, guitars
Kreutzberg Records
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PROGRAM TWENTY-FIVE:
“Eight Natural Scenes from the Pacific Rim"
For the UAS Pacific Rim Forum 2006
First Broadcast: 03.31.06

In “Eight Natural Scenes from the Pacific Rim,” CrossSound Radio celebrates the 2006 Pacific Rim Forum Interdisciplinary Conference on Energy and Environment at the University of Alaska Southeast with a program of compositions on nature by Pacific Rim composers.  In this program, each of the composed natural scenes of the Pacific environment:  tide, forest, mist, valley stream, secluded orchid, water and rock, grassland, and a winter’s sunset, is painted with the pure energy of music. Music by Minoru Miki, Toshiro Saruya, Long Zhou, David Rothenberg, Wei Wu/Ulrich Moritz, Tetsu Saitoh/Sook-Sun An/Suk-Chul Kim/Gwang-Soo Lee.

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Recording:		 Yui II:  Tidal Sounds (1980), Ode to Forests (1983)
MIKI Minoru (1930 Japan)
YOSHIMURA Nanae , 20-string koto, and MOURI Hakuro, cello
Camerata
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Recording:		 Colors of Mist (1996)
SARUYA Toshiro (1960 Japan)
YOSHIMURA Nanae, 20-string koto
Camerata
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“Valley Stream” (1983)
ZHOU Long (1953 China)
Renyang GAO, dizi;  Jianbing HU, guanzi;  Haiqiong DENG, zheng; and Frank Cassara, percussion
Delos

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Recording:		 “Secluded Orchid” (2000)
ZHOU Long (1953 China)
Guowei WANG erhu, or 2-stringed fiddle;  Fred Sherry, cello; Yihan CHEN pipa – the four-stringed Chinese lute, Frank Cassara on percussion
Delos
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Recording:
 “No Water, NO Stone” (2005)
David Rothenberg (USA)
David Rothenberg — bass clarinet and super-slo-mo hermit thrush song recording
Terra Nova
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 “The So Called Laws of Nature” (2002)
David Lang (1957 USA)
So Percussion
Cantaloupe
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 “Back to Grassland” (2004)
Wu Wei and Ulrich Moritz (improvisation — Berlin 2004)
Wu Wei, matouqin (Mongolian horse-head fiddle) and vocals; Ulrich Moritz, percussion
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Recording:		 A Winter’s Sunset from (1993)
SAITOH Tetsu, bass,  Korean p'ansori singer AN Sook-Sun and shaman KIM Suk-Chul on vocals, and LEE Gwang-Soo on chang-go, the Korean hourglass drum (improvisation — Seoul 1993)
Cantabile
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PROGRAM TWENTY-FOUR:
"Riff Raft II: The Composers"
First Broadcast: 03.10.06

Program Twenty Four introduces the composers for the CrossSound Program “RiffRaft:” two Alaskan composers, Philip Munger from Wasilla, and Matthew Burtner originally from Naknek; as well as Korean composer LEE Geon-Yong, and Lithuanian composer Onuté Narbutaité, along with another Alaskan composer, Stefan Hakenberg. 

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Recording:		 “Winterserenade” (1997)
Onuté Narbutaité (1956 Lithuania)
Valentinas Gelgotas, flute;  Ingrida Armonaité, violin;  and Audroné Psiblskiené, viola
Finlandia  
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Recording:		 “Variations on Sangju Moshimgi” (2003)
LEE Geon-Yong (1947 Korea), SHIN Dong-Il, arr.
Sagye Ensemble: KOH Jiyeon, JO Suhyeon, SONG Jeongmin, and YU Jiyeong, 25-string kayagum
EMI
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Sikuigvik (the time of ice melting) (1998)
Matthew Burtner (1970 Alaska, USA)
Torleif Torgersen and the MiN Ensemble, Matthew Burtner - conductor
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Recording:		 “Semichi Toccata, Op. 43” (1994)
Philip Munger (1946 Alaska, USA)
Juliana Osinchik, piano
Live
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Recording:
 “Bari” The Dance of the Queen, and Finale (1998)
LEE Geon-Yong (1947 Korea)
Korea National University of Arts Symphony, CHEONG Chiyong - conductor
ISMM
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 "Three Alaska Sketches” for String Quartet :  “Riot of Wildflowers at Wet Gulch, op. 35,” “The Nomad at Knik, op 60,” and Kalakala Toccata op 44”
Philip Munger (1946 Alaska, USA)
Paul Rosenthal and the Sitka Festival String Quartet
Live at Alaska Pacific University, 2000
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Recording:
 “Song in the Dusk” (2002)
LEE Geon-Yong (1947 Korea)
Sagye Ensemble: KOH Jiyeon, JO Suhyeon, SONG Jeongmin, and YU Jiyeong, 25-string kayagum
EMI
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 "Endprints" for 9 tenor saxophones (2004)
Matthew Burtner (1970 Alaska, USA)
Matthew Burtner - tenor sax
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“Mozartsommer 1991” (1991)
Onuté Narbutaité (1956 Lithuania)
Valentinas Gelgotas, flute;  Ingrida Armonaité, violin; Audroné Psiblskiené, viola; and Gediminas Kviklys, harpsichord
Finlandia  
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Recording:
 “Sonata for Two Pianos” “Second winter tour,” “Further Apophyses,” “An Early Spring,” (1992)
Philip Munger (1946 Alaska, USA)
Tim and Rumi Smith, pianos
Live from the Sitka Summer Music Festival Winter Classics series at UAA in 1992
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PROGRAM TWENTY-THREE:
"Riff Raft I: The Soloists"
First Broadcast: 02.24.06

Program Twenty-three introduces the two soloists for the next CrossSound Program, “RiffRaft:” Dimitris Marinos, mandolin, and Saitoh Tetsu, bass. 
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Recording:		 “Stone Out” : Introduction, A Kite, and Notice-Grief (1995)
Saitoh Tetsu (1955 Japan)
Saitoh Tetsu and Itoh Seita, basses, Korean gongs (ching), and glocken; Kuoda Kyoko, piano, ching, and glocken;  and Koto Vortex:  Nishi Yoko, Maruta Miki, Takezawa Etsuko, and Yagi Michiyo, kotos, chings, and Japanese mouth organ (sho)
OMBA  
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 “Tantrum” (1992)
C.P. First (1960 USA)
Dimitris Marinos, mandolin, and tape
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Recording: 		“Stone Out” : Consolation, Send Off (1995)
Saitoh Tetsu (1955 Japan)
Saitoh Tetsu and Itoh Seita, basses, Korean gongs (ching), and glocken; Kuoda Kyoko, piano, ching, and glocken;  and Koto Vortex:  Nishi Yoko, Maruta Miki, Takezawa Etsuko, and Yagi Michiyo, kotos, chings, and Japanese mouth organ (sho)
OMBA    
4. Title:
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Players:		 “Epiphany” (1994)
C.P. First (1960 USA)
Dimitris Marinos, mandolin, Davis Brooks, violin, and tape
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Recording:
 “Stone Out” : Last Theme (1995)
Saitoh Tetsu (1955 Japan)
Saitoh Tetsu and Itoh Seita, basses, Korean gongs (ching), and glocken; Kuoda Kyoko, piano, ching, and glocken;  and Koto Vortex:  Nishi Yoko, Maruta Miki, Takezawa Etsuko, and Yagi Michiyo, kotos, chings, and Japanese mouth organ (sho)
OMBA  
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 “Sphinx”
Michalis Lapidakis (1960 Greece)
Dimitris Marinos, mandolin, James Bonznos, percussion
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Recording:
 “Param": Param, Just Accept (1994)
Saitoh Tetsu (1955 Japan)
Saitoh Tetsu and Itoh Seita, basses, Korean gongs (ching), and glocken; Kuoda Kyoko, piano, ching, and glocken;  and Koto Vortex:  Nishi Yoko, Maruta Miki, Takezawa Etsuko, and Yagi Michiyo, kotos, chings, and Japanese mouth organ (sho)
OMBA  
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 “Concerto” for mandolin and orchestra
Kostis Kritsotakis (1973)
Dimitris Marinos, mandolin, and the Orchestra of Colors, Miltos Logiadis, conductor
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“Carillon, Recitatif, Masque” for mandlin, guitar, and harp 
Hans Werner Henze (1923)
Dimitris Marinos, Mandolin, Alison Attar, harp, and Paul Bowman, guitar.
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PROGRAM TWENTY-TWO: "Meditation"
First Broadcast: 02.03.06

Program Twenty-two focuses again on new music inspired by religion and spiritual philosophies – this time of the East — by composers from the Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and the United States.
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Recording:		 "Ho Ho Kut” (2003)
KIM Daeseong (1967 Korea)
Sagye kayagûm (Korean 12-stringed zither) quartet
EMI
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Recording: 		“Padma in Meditation” (1988)
Akira Nishimura (1953 Japan)
Percussion Group 72
Camerata
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Recording: 		“Totem Ancestor” (1943)
Johyn Cage (1912-1992 USA), Eric Salzman, arr.
Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch
4. Title:
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Recording:
 “Totem and Taboo” (1996)
Hwang-Long PAN (1945 Taiwan)
Ju Percussion Group
ISCM Taiwan Pan
5. Title:
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Recording:
 “Avalokiteshcara” (1964)
Lou Harrison (1917-2003 USA)
Beverly Bellows, harp and a percussionist from the Oakland Youth Orchestra
Phoenix
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Recording:
 “Zen (Ch'an) of Water” (1981)
David Mingyue Liang (1941 China)
Shanghai Film Orchestra, Wang Yongji, Dir.
Cellestial Harmonies 1989
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Recording:
 “The Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth" (2002)
Zhou Long (1953 China)
Wesleyan Ensemble of the Americas, and Music from China
Delos 2004
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Recording		 “La Koro Sutro” (1972)
Lou Harrison (1917-2003 USA)
The Chamber Chorus of the University of CA at Berkley, Philip Brett, Dir.; Karen Gottlieb, harp; Agnes Saurbeck, organ; The American Gamelan Ensemble
New Albion 1988
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PROGRAM TWENTY-ONE:
"Perestroika, the Pope and the Patriarch"
First Broadcast: 01.27.06

Program Twenty one focuses on new sacred music from primarily former East Bloc countries by composers from Uzbekistan, Hungary, Romania, Estonia, and Tartar Soviet Republic.
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Recording:		 “Ave Maris Stella,” or “Hail, thou Star of Ocean” (2003)
Polina Medyulyanova (1974 Uzbekistan)
Jeannette van Schaick, soprano; Marieke Schut, oboe; Polina Medyulyanova, Chang (Uzbek hammer dulcimer), and the Holland Symfonia Orchestra, Henrik Schaefer, cond.
Live
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Recording: 		“Officium breve” (1989)
György Kurtág (1926 Romania)
Keller Quartet
ECM New Series 1995
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 “Litanae Laurentanae,” (or “Litany of Loreto” ) a cantata in five parts for tenor and string orchestra (2004)
Polina Medyulyanova (1974 Uzbekistan)
Najmetdin Mavlanov, tenor; and the Chamber Orchestra of the Television and Radio broadcasting Company of Uzbekistan, conducted by Polina’s father, Victor Medyulyanov
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Recording:
 “Lacrymosa” in (1991)
Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (1963 Uzbekistan)
Dawn Upshaw, soprano, and the Kronos Quartet on a
Elektra Entertainment disc (1994)
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Recording:
 “Trisagion” from (1995)
Arvo Pärt (1935 Estonia)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Saulius Sondckis, conductor
ECM New Series
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Recording:
 “Seven Words” (1991)
I. Father, Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do.
II. Woman, Behold Thy Son. - Behold Thy Mother.
III. Verily, I Say Unto Thee. Today Shalt Thou Be With Me In Paradise.
IV. My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
V. I Thirst.
VI. It Is Finished.
VII. Father, Into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit.
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931 Tartar Soviet Republic)
Karine Georgian, cello; Elsbeth Moser, bajan
Berlin Classics
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Recording:
 “Kings of Bethlehem,” (195?) “Easter,” (195?)  “Lux Aeterna" (1966)
György Ligetti (1923 Transylvania)
London Sinfonietta Voices directed by Terry Edwards
Sony Classical
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Recording		 “K’vakarat” (1994)
Osvaldo Golijov (1960 Argentina)
Kronos  Quartet
Elektra Entertainment
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PROGRAM TWENTY: "RainSongs II"
First Broadcast: 03.17.05

Program Twenty introduces the 3 soloists playing recitals as part of CrossSound's 2005 storytelling project, "RainSongs: 3 Antiphonous Tales from Wet Lands," Chan Park, Mei Han, and Fred Ho.

PROGRAM NINETEEN: "RainSongs I"
First Broadcast: 03.11.05

Program Nineteen introduces the 3 composers writing for CrossSound's 2005 storytelling project, "RainSongs: 3 Antiphonous Tales from Wet Lands," Cecilia Heejeong Kim, Fred Weihan Ho, and Stefan Hakenberg.
1. Title:
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 "Prologue" for string quartet and tape
Cecilia Heejeong Kim (1968)
Ensemble Antipodes (Swizerland) string quartet, Park No-Hae taped voice, Kang Gyon-soon, vocals
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Recording: 		"Dagomba" (1998)
Fred Ho
Members of the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble: David Bindman - tenor sax, Robert Levin - percussion, Royal Hartigan - drums, Fred Ho - bari sax
"Yes Means Yes, No Means No, Whatever She Wears, Wherever She Goes!"
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Recording:		 Three Thai Tunes: "The Cow on the Mountain" (1996)
Stefan Hakenberg (1960)
Duo Contemporain (bass clarinet and percussion) and the Bangkok Saxaphone Quartet
sopr sax, alto sax, ten sax, bar sax, bass sax, mar
"Pooyai Lee" available only in Thailand
4. Title:
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Recording:
 "Lan Hua Hua" (Blue Flower) (1990)
Fred Ho
Cindy Zuoxin Wang - vocals, Fred Ho - bari sax
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Recording:
 Three Thai Tunes: "Bird Dance" "Folk Song" (1996)
Stefan Hakenberg
Duo Contemporain (bass clarinet and percussion) and the Bangkok Saxaphone Quartet
"Pooyai Lee" available only in Thailand
6. Title:
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Recording:
 "Absolute Solo" (1994)
Fred Ho
Fred Ho - bari sax
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 "Days" (1996)
Book I: 1. Strip 2. Rome 3. Aeolian 4. Miniature 5. Interlude
Book II: 1. Poem 2. Under Fabric 3. Takes 4. Minuet 5. Transition
Stefan Hakenberg
Janet Underhill - bassoon, Diane Heffner - bass clarinet
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 "Josephine Baker's Angels from the Rainbow"
Fred Ho
Imani Winds
9. Title:
Composer/
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 "Mook-Eum" (Silence) (1994)
Cecilia Heejeong Kim
Laurel Wyckoff - flute, Choong-Jin Chang - viola
10. Title:
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 "Illusions for solo piano" (1990)
Cecilia Heejeong Kim
Xiang-Dong Kong - piano
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PROGRAM EIGHTEEN: "Cartoon"
First Broadcast: 03.04.05

Program Eighteen shows the humorous side of modern composers, speckled with Carl Stalling's cartoon works.
1. Title:
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Recording: 		"Orchestra Gag" (1942)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
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Recording: 		"Liquormania" 4th century
Ruan Ji (Mystery Qin Handbook)
Zhang Ziqian, qin
Guanling Qin Music Series (Excerpts) HUGO HRP718-2
3. Title:
Composer:
Recording:		 "Variation on Chinatown, My Chinatown (1942)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
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Recording:

"Frazzled Coyote" (1957)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
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Recording:		 "Esashi" (1989)
Haruomi Hosono
Kasumi Kimura, main vocals; Minyo Girls of Tokyo, chorus; Zouhir Gouja, accordion; Julian Weiss, kanun; Hidetaro Honjo, synth
OmniSight Seeing 28-8P-5258 JASRAC
6. Title:
Composer:
Recording:
 "Rubber Dog" (1939)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
7. Title:
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Recording:
 "Paulinesisk Procession" for Windband and inflatable Doll (1993)
Anders Hillborg
Stockholm Transport Band/Ringborg
TwinMusic TMCD-18
8. Title:
Composer:
Recording:
 "Flea-ridden Sheep Dog" (1949)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
9. Title:
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Recording:
 "We Speak Etruscan" (1992)
Lee Hyla (1952)
Tim Berne, bari sax; Tim Smith, bass clarinet
We Speak Etruscan, New World Records 80491-2/DIDX 034704
10. Title:
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Recording:
 "Marching Pink Elephants" (1940)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
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Recording:
 "Strava XI" part one for clarinets, sax and playback (2001);
"Dialogue" for clarinets, sax and percussion (1992)
"Quinte Stravaganze" for two cembali (1999)
"Bagatelle" part two for string quartet (1990)
"Strava XI" part two for clarinet and playback (2001)
"Puppet's Dance" for e-violin, e-piano, drums and e-bass (2002)
Rüdiger Blömer (1960)
Jürgen Löscher, clarinets, sax; Ralf Beckers, clarinet; Johannes Schneider, percussion; Carsten Dittmer and Martina Blömer, cembalo; Ensemble Flageolett.
LUX MM03
12. Title:
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Recording:
 "Fall and Splat - SFX"
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
13. Title:
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Recording:
 "The High and the Flighty" (1956)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
14. Title:
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Recording:
 "Marblehead" (1992)
Alexandra Gardner
sampled toy marbles on tape
Marblehead: electronic music 1990-2000, Jigsaw Music
15. Title:
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Recording:
 "Variation on Grandfather's Clock" (1957)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
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 "On The Thirst for Being"
seven things and one actuality for viola and seven others
VOM DURST NACH DASEIN (2001)
sieben Sachen und eine Gegebenheit für Bratsche und noch sieben
1. intro
2. of light heartedness VON DER LEICHTHERZIGKEIT
3. of lonliness VON DER ANGST VOR DER EINSAMKEIT
4. of lust for power VON DER LUST AN DER MACHT
5. of the enchantment of amazement
VON DER VERZAUBERUNG. VOM STAUNEN
6. of joy of fighting VON DER KAMPFESLUST
7. of beauty VON DER ANMUT
8. of absentmindedness VON DER ZERSTREUTHEIT
9. a speech EINE REDE
Stephan Winkler (1967)
Chamber Ensemble for New Music, Berlin
Coming in May WERGO/Schott
17. Title:
Composer:
Recording:
 "Variation on Lucky Day" (1957)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
18. Title:
Composer/
Players:
Recording:
 "Hectic City" and "Comic" (2003)
Wu Wei (1970), erhu; Sebastian Hilken, cello; Ullrich Moritz, percussion

sZENic Pattens
19. Title:
Composer:
Recording:
 "Kangaroo -SFX" (1942)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
20. Title:
Composer:
Recording:
 "Variations on Johann Strauss" (1949)
Carl Stalling (1939-1957)
The Carl Stalling Project, Warner Brothers
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Recording:
 Theme from "The Golden Boat" (1990)
John Zorn (1953)
John Zorn, sax; Vicki Bodner, oboe; Robert Quine, guitar; Anthony Coleman, keyboards; Carol Emanuel, harp; David Shea, turntable, vocals; Mark Dresser, drums; Ciro Baptista, Brazilian percussion; Robert Previte, drums, marimba
John Zorn Film Works 1986-1990 WAVE 2024
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Recording:
 Jing Jing (Firefly)(1980)
Traditional song arranged by Tito Kawachi (drums) /Makoto Kubota (e-guitar); Shoukichi Kina, lyrics, guitar, vocals; Tomoko, Keiko & Sachiko, vocals; Takao Nagama, shamisen; Ry Cooder, slide guitar;Toshiaki Yokota, woodwinds; Macky Ferry, e-bass
The Best of Shoukichi Kina: Peppermint Teahouse Luaka Bop 72438-49033-2-9
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Recording:
 "End Titiles" from "She Must Be Seeing Things" (1986)
John Zorn
Shelly Hirsch, voice; John Zorn - tenor saxe; Marty Ehrlich - tenor sax and clarinet; Tom Varner, horn; Jim Staley, trombone; Bill Frisell, guitar; Carol Emanuel, harp; Anthony Coleman, piano, celeste, organ, harpsichord; David Horvitz, bass; Nana Vasconcelos, Brazilian percussion; Robert Previte, percussion; Wayne Horvitz, hammond organ, piano, DX7; David Weinstein, mirage, CZ101, keyboards,
John Zorn Film Works 1986-1990 WAVE 2024
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PROGRAM SEVENTEEN: "Mostly Violin"
First Broadcast: 02.17.2005

Program Seventeen explores sounds of the violin. In writing for the violin, each composer on this show makes an attempt to weave strands of the western classical traditions embodied in the instrument, with widely diverse threads of late 20th and early 21st century multiculturalism  — American, Korean, folk, and jazz — to create a new sound tapestry, revealing the violin as if for the first time to eager ears. 
1. Title:
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Recording: 		"Sequenza VIII" (1976)
Luciano Berio
Jeanne-Marie Conquer (Ensemble InterContemporain)
2. Title:
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Recording: 		"Tunesmith . . . An American Beauty Pageant" (1993)
Thomas Oboe Lee (1945)
Paul Chou, violin; Paul Salerni, piano
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Recording:		 "Violin Sonata" (1995)
Il-Ryun Chung (1964)
Matthias Leupold, violin
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"First String Quartet"
Eric Chasalow
Speculum Musicae String Quartet
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Recording:		 "Voices" (1993)
Martin Brody (1949)
Joel Smirnoff, violin
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 "Monochrome" from "The Displacement Map" (2001)
Stefan Hakenberg (1960)
Ken Wright, Steve Tada, violins; Andrew Talle, Cello
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 "But We Must Go On" Dreaming (1989)
Luigi Nono
Andreas Brautigam, Stefan Kalbe (UnitedBerlin), violins
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PROGRAM SIXTEEN: Speak Easy
First Broadcast: 01.27.2005

Program Sixteen explores the speaking voice in music, known by the German word Sprechstimme or Sprechgesang — a stylization of a performing practice that was connected principally with declamation, poetry, and drama, and only secondarily with music in the 19th century.
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Recording: 		"In This Context" first movement "Flute Sounds in Spring"(1998)
Stefan Hakenberg (1960)
That was members of the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Kalb,
Dai Xiaolian and Cheng Gongliang - qin (another link)
Brigitte Geller – soprano,
Werner Volker Meyer – baritone,
Chen Shizheng – voice
Recorded live in Heidelberg by by Südfunk, Baden-Baden, Germany.
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Recording: 		"Pierrot Lunaire"
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Barbara Sukowa - voice with the Schönberg Ensemble Amsterdam, directed by Reinbert de Leeuw
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Recording:		 "The Wind is Calling Me Outside" (1986)
Yuji Takahashi (1938)
Kazue Sawai - shamisen
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"Fighting Song" from "The Battle of the Red Cliff"
Traditonal pansori
Park Dongjin (1916 - 2003)
Ju Bongshin, buk (drum)
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Recording:		 "Coming Together" for narrator and instruments (1972)
Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938)
Group 180 with Péter Faragó -- voice
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 ". . . Two Feelings . . ." Music with Leonardo (1992)
Helmut Lachenmann (1935)
Ensemble Modern with Ueli Wiget and Frank Ollu, voices; directed by Peter Eötvös
[EMC New Series 1789 461949-2]
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PROGRAM FIFTEEN: Dies Irae
First Broadcast: 01.20.2005

In his 1919 The Majority, American composer Charles Ives wrote, “Intimidation has not turned back one transcendent thought or one valuable idea from going where it was destined to go, and doing what it was destined to do.  It may be temporarily delayed, or its species may revert only to propagate in a related form, but brute force (the world’s greatest idiot) has never kept the germ from its divine order.  A black eye never reformed a drunkard, a czar never stopped a free thought.” 

Program Fifteen explores public memory and spiritual transcendence with works of Hans Werner Henze, George Crumb, and John Adams in a program called, “Dies Irae” or ”Day of Wrath.”
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Recording: 		"There They Are!" (1917/1942)
Charles Ives (1874 - 1954); Kronos part arranged by John Geist (1990)
Charles Ives historical recording, with the Kronos Quartet
Charles E. Ives's private recordings (Mary Howard, engineer) held in the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, Yale Univeristy; Kronos Quartet: "Black Angles" Elektra Nonesuch 9 79242-2
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Recording: 		"Requiem"
Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926)
Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher - director, Ueli Wiget - piano, Håken Hardenberger - trumpet
Sony Classical: SK 58972
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Recording:		 "Black Angesls: Thirteen Images from the Dark Land" (1970)
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Threnody I: Night of the Electric Insects
Sounds of Bones and Flutes
Lost Bells
Devil Music
Danse Macabre
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Pavana Lachrymae
Threnody II: Black Angels
Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscure
Lost Bells
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God-Music
Ancient Voices
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Threnody III: Night ofthe Electric Insects (Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura - echo)
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet: "Black Angles" Elektra Nonesuch 9 79242-2
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"On the Transmigration of Souls" (2002)
John Adams (1947)
New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel - director, New York Choral Artists - Joseph Flummerfelt - director, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Diane Berkun - director
Nonesuch 79816
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PROGRAM FOURTEEN: Gamelan
First Broadcast: 01.06.2005

Many composers have been influenced by the gamelan since the Paris Exposition of 1889 at which Claude Debussy encountered a Javanese gamelan for the first time.  American composers Michael Tenzer and Evan Ziporyn studied it in depth in Indonesia, but many others are inspired from afar, like Debussy.  In Program Fourteen, we will hear two American composers, a Japanese composer, and a Greek composer, all of whom have clearly been influenced by the interlocking rhythms of the gamelan.

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Recording: 		"Kechak" (1979)
Akira Nishimura (b. 1953)
Percussion Group 72
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Recording: 		"Gending" and "Bowl Bells" from "Varied Trio" (1986)
Lou Harrison (b. 1917)
Abel - Steinberg - Winant Trio
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Recording:		 "Legong" (1988)
Akira Nishimura (b. 1953)
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"Pléiades" (1979)
Iannis Xenakis (b. 1922)
Kroumata
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Recording:		 "Tala" (1982)
Akira Nishimura (b. 1953)
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Recording:		 "IN C" (1964)
Terry Riley
Shanghai Film Orchestra, Wang Yongji - conductor
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