The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the livelihoods of musicians and other artists with event cancellations and more. This week on Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline presents a special edition of the show sharing 23 pieces by living composers and performers, with ways that you can support their work directly – as well as ways you can support artists in general – during this time.

Hour 1

• Hommage a Hildegard of Bingen by Anthony Joseph Lanman performed by Holly Roadfeldt, piano.
• FÔR Marimbas: Mvt. I Allegro con Vivo by Alex Ofaly (Performed by Heartland Marimba Quartet). Heartland Marimba Quartet’s newest album, Vision, is available on all streaming platforms and for purchase on their website www.heartlandmarimbaquartet.com.
  
• Snow by Elena Langer performed by violinist Yolanda Bruno and pianist Isabelle David. You can purchase their Wild Swans album by visiting https://www.yolandabruno.com/the-wild-swans.
• Doublespeak by Bethany Younge (Performed by Sputter Box). Find Sputter Box on social media: @sputterbox on Instagram/Facebook and @sputterboxtrio on Twitter. Right now they have an ongoing project called Sputter (SHRINKS THE) Box, which is designed so they can keep playing together, keep composers writing, and to share music with everyone in their homes. You can watch the videos of these brand new works on Sputter Box’s social media channels, and you can support the project with a donation to their Venmo (@sputterbox), and proceeds are split with all composers involved.
• Lisa Cella performs Ripples for alto flute by Adam Greene. For information and work samples, visit www.adamgreene.net
• .The first movement of Fabio Massimo Capogrosso‘s Tre movimenti per corde e martelli performed by Strings & Hammers.
  
• Hollowlight by Aidan Ramsay, performed by Katie Cox, flute; Alex LoRe, alto saxophone; Joseph Bergen, percussion; Andie Springer, violin; Charles Akert, cello). Sheet music, which can be requested through my email, aidancramsay@gmail.com.
• The second movement, Rehabilitation from Michael Standard‘s work Stamina performed by horn soloist Eric Hawkins and the McCormick Percussion Group; Robert McCormick, conductor.
• O Oriens by Melissa Dunphy, performed by The Singers; Matthew Culloton, conductor. In addition to composing, Melissa Dunphy co-hosts a podcast that has nothing to do with music called The Boghouse, which details my real-life archaeology adventures after she and her husband bought a magic theater and found thousands of artifacts from the 1700s underneath. You can support Dunphy by checking out The Boghouse wherever you get podcasts. Read more here.
• Music by John Liberatore for saxophone and percussion, performed by the Bent Frequency Duo Project.
• We fear the undulant from Kurt Rohde’s It Wasn’t a Dream, featuring text by Diane Seuss, and performed by members of the Brooklyn Art Song Society (soprano Charlotte Mundy with pianists Miori Sugiyama and Michael Brofman). Rohde’s newest album is available now on the Albany Records label.

Hour 2

• Music by Hilary Kleinig performed by the Zephyr Quartet. The ensemble’s new album, EPILOGUE, on Navona Records and all major platforms.
• An excerpt from Tapestry by Bryan Michael Wysocki performed by Anthony DeMartinis, marimba.
• The first movement from Three Sketches on Paintings by Regina Guerrero by Jonathan Howard Katz. Performed by Ellen Huntington, flute; Sunshine Simmons, clarinet; Austin Wulliman, violin; Jocelyn Butler, cello; Daniel Pesca, piano. Visit website jonathanhowardkatz.com for info about his works and links to purchase sheet music.
  
• A work for microtonally-retuned piano by Isaac Schankler called Alien Warp Etude performed by Aron Kallay. Isaac Schankler has launched a project called “Songs to Wash Your Hands To,” in which they’ve compiled 56 twenty-second songs from various composers and artists with all proceeds going to the Medicare Rights Center, a nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs and public policy initiatives. Listen and donate here.
• Owl Flight by Chris Opperman performed by the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Check out his back catalog of music on Spotify.
• Interlude-Adagio, the second movement of Andrew Noseworthy’s Concerto for Korg Monotron performed by Louis Pino, Korg monotron soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada; Gregory Oh, conductor. Visit https://www.anmusiccomposer.com/ for more information about the composer, and check out Noseworthy’s independent record label at https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/.
• Flutist Lindsay Goodman performs music by Jason Taurins. Her albums Returning to Heights Unseen and ETEREO, both on Navona Records and all major platforms.
• Glistenality by Rasa Daukus, performed by Holly Roadfeldt, piano. Check out more of Holly Roadfeldt’s performances on her two CDs: the Preludes Project, a 2 CD solo album-music by Kirk O’Riordan and Chopin; and Autumn Winds, a new album of solo and chamber music by Kirk O’Riordan.
• The third movement of Gloria Yehilevsky‘s Minister of Loneliness, called you’re not watching your figure are you. Performed by Aisling Reilly, double bass and Gloria Yehilevsky, percussion.
• Violinist Patrick Yim performs the music of Michael-Thomas Foumai. Yim’s recent album, MEMORY on all major platforms and at navonarecords.com.
• The second movement of Tucker Johnson‘s CO performed by Doug O’Connor, alto saxophone and Eunmi Ko, piano. Listen to the whole piece here.
• The Prelude from Kyle Rowan’s Not Quite a Sunset performed by Kyle Adam Blair, piano. Learn more about Rowan’s music at www.penguinmanmusic.com.