On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, we’ll hear a work by Jessie Montgomery for solo cello and orchestra called “Divided”… music that is a response to the social and political unrest that has plagued our society in the recent past. 

Then, a work  that reaches back nearly 500 years for inspiration. It’s Nico Muhly’s “Reliable Sources,” a concerto for bassoon that draws on the history of the instrument, and its use in sacred music of the 16th Century.

Plus music by Molly Herron, John Liberatore, Gabriela Lena Frank, Shuying Li, Britta Byström, Angélica Negrón, and others; and performances by Zohn Collective, cellist Tommy Mesa and Sphinx Virtuosi, Zephyr Quartet, pianist Gianluca Luisi, bassoonist Michael Harley and University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble, violinist Olivia de Prato, ~Nois Saxophone Quartet, and more.