Modern Notebook for April 25, 2021

Photo: Composer Annika Socolofsky (Photo credit: Emory Hensley)

On this week’s Modern Notebook: Tyler Kline will share a round up of recent releases, with music by Eleanor Alberga for horn and chamber ensemble; a work for guitar quartet and choir by Reena Esmail featuring the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet; and a piece for alto saxophone and piano by Annika Sokolofsky titled Rise, in which the piano strings are bowed.


Plus: works by Kitty Xiao, Philip Herbert, Cecilia Arditto, Dai Fujikura, and others; and performances by saxophonist Jonathan Hulting-Cohen with pianist Nicholas Shaneyfelt, Nimbus Trio, Third Angle New Music, English horn soloist Jacqueline Leclair, and more.


That’s Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org.



Hour 1

  • The Unconditional Sight by Ka Hei Cheng.
  • Kitty Xiao’s Solstice I.
  • Elegy: In Memoriam – Stephen Lawrence by Philip Herbert.
  • Annika Socolofsky’s Rise.
  • Tres Homenajes: Compadrazgo by Gabriela Lena Frank.

Hour 2

  • Música Invisible by Cecilia Arditto
  • John Liberatore’s This Living Air.
  • Shining Gate of Morpheus by Eleanor Alberga.
  • Dai Fujkura’s Perpetual Spring.
  • When the Guitar by Reena Esmail.

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