Modern Notebook for August 11 - 17, 2024

Photo credit: Composer-pianist Beyza Yazgan (photo courtesy of the artist).

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, we’ll hear a work by Takuma Itoh for shakuhachi and chamber ensemble called Faded Aura, and pieces by David Lang and Helen Grime. Plus, a new work by composer-pianist Beyza Yazgan titled “Question.”


Then: Eleanor Alberga’s first symphony is music inspired by geology and the makings of a planet. It’s called “Strata,” and over the course of the piece, the composer travels through the different layers of the Earth - growing more imaginative the deeper we go.


Plus, music by Ian Gottlieb, Jace Clayton, James Romig, Lei Liang, and others; and performances by cellist Rhonda Rider, flutist Catherine Gregory with pianist David Kaplan, The Claremont Trio, Bang on a Can All-Stars, clarinetist Ted Gurch and violinist Helen Kim, and more.

Hour 1

  • Meditation on Impatience by Ian Gottlieb.
  • David Lang’s Vent.
  • Path at Sunrise, Masses of Flowers by Margaret Brouwer.
  • Beyza Yazgan’s Question.
  • Three Whistler Miniatures by Helen Grime.
  • Jace Clayton’s Lethe’s Children.
  • Faded Aura by Takuma Itoh.

Hour 2

  • Ferocious Alphabets by James Romig.
  • Lei Liang’s My Windows.
  • Symphony No. 1, “Strata” by Eleanor Alberga.

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