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Modern Notebook for April 21 - 27, 2024

Photo: Composer Anthony Cheung (photo credit: Ben Gebo).

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, tune in for a new recording from composer Nova Pon, with a piece called “World Within.” It’s music that melds Romantic and Post-Minimalist sounds and derives its entire thematic material from a well-known symphonic theme.


Then: While it might not necessarily sound like jazz on the surface… Anthony Cheung’s “All Roads” is music that draws on jazz influences, like Billy Strayhorn’s song “Lotus Blossom.” It’s a work full of complicated harmony, jaunting rhythms, and - in the composer’s words - “distant transformations and ‘detours’.”


Also on the program, music by Curtis Stewart, Jasnam Daya Singh, Nicholas Batina, Jenni Watson, Gabriel Vicéns, Fjóla Evans, and others, as well as performances by Experiential Orchestra, pianist Andree-Ann Deschenes, Turning Point Ensemble, Unheard-of//Ensemble, flutist Jennifer Grim, saxophonist Heidi Radtke, Nu Quintet, and more.

Hour 1

  • We Who Seek by Curtis Stewart.
  • Jasnam Daya Singh’s Chardi Kala.
  • World Within by Nova Pon.
  • Nicholas Batina’s En Route (to an installation in Brooklyn).
  • Alma by Tania León.
  • Nico Muhly’s Fallings.

Hour 2

  • Arabesque by Jenni Watson.
  • Anthony Cheung’s All Roads.
  • Ficción by Gabriel Vicéns.
  • Fjóla Evans’ Universal Veil.

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