Modern Notebook for August 15, 2021

Photo: Composer Jessie Cox (Photo credit: Gaya Feldheim Shorr)

On this week’s Modern Notebook: Tyler Kline shares a large-scale work by Nico Muhly titled “How Little You Are,” which is scored for choir and multiple guitar quartets.


And a piece by Jessie Cox called “Space Travel from Someplace Else,” which is a remix of a TV Series the composer created during the COVID lockdowns of 2020.


Plus, works by Emma O’Halloran, Noriko Koide, Juri Seo, Chaya Czernowin, and others; and performances by Conspirare, Wavefield Ensemble, cellist Joeann Whang, saxophonist Matthew Levy, Looptail, and more.



That and more on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • Danish String Quarter performs updated traditional Scandinavian Music.
  • Two Movements from Noriko Koide’s Drie Vensters.
  •  Nico Muhly’s How Little You Are.

Hour 2

  • fardanceCLOSE by Chaya Czernowin.
  • Emma O’Halloran’s Sum of its Parts.
  • Night Song for Moths by Lisa Neher.
  • Jessie Cox’s Space Travel from Someplace Else.
  • Suite for Cello by Juri Seo.

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