Modern Notebook for April 7

Modern Notebook for April 7 - 13, 2024

Photo: composer Jessica Meyer (photo credit: Titilayo Ayangade).

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: On April 8th, 2024, a solar eclipse will sweep across North America, and over 31 million Americans are in the 100-plus mile-wide path of totality. On the next Modern Notebook, we will hear music by Jessica Meyer commissioned by the group fivebyfive and composed specifically for this monumental event.

Then, Elisanda Fabregas’s Goyescas is filled with the flavors of Spanish folk music, conveyed through insistent dance rhythms, mysterious dreamy passages, and passages that evoke older times. It’s music inspired by five paintings of Francisco Goya, a painter regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th century.

Plus, music by Nico Muhly, Enrico Chapela, Donnacha Dennehy, Derrick Skye, Amy Williams, Ofer Pelz, and others; and performances by harpist Chelsea Lane, Crash Ensemble, Miró Quartet with Conspirare, pianist Clare Longendyke, Kornos Quartet, Meitar Ensemble, and more.

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On the final episode of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Hideaki Aomori’s Split stretches the bass clarinet to its limits, exploring the full breadth of its sound world. This hour also features Baljinder Sekhon’s Drifting Seeds for cello and harp, along with music by Anna Mieke, Vivian Fung, and more. Then: chamber music by Jessica Ackerley called Spark Surge — one of the highlights of the final hour. You’ll also hear Fumiko Miyachi’s piano duo Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange Charm , alongside music by Shirish Korde, Oliver Knussen, and others. Also in this episode: music by Tania León performed by pianist Isabel Dobarro; Claire Victoria Roberts performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain; Judd Greenstein performed by NOW Ensemble; Justin H. Bush performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames; and flutist Tessa Brinckman performing music by Shirish Korde.