Modern Notebook for August 23, 2020

Photo: Composer Tonia Ko (Photo credit: Matt Dine)

Coming up on Modern Notebook this week, Tyler Kline dedicates nearly an hour to newly-released music from this past month, including a work for flute and electronics by Christopher Cerrone titled “Liminal Highway;” music for solo viola from Lisa Bielawa’s new album; and music by Tonia Ko, performed by the Grossman Ensemble, recently described by the Chicago Reader as “a sensuous petting zoo of sounds.”


Plus: a violin concerto by Jarkko Hartikainen performed by violinist Sini Virtanen with the McCormick percussion group; music by Misato Mochizuki, Anna Weesner, and David Crowell; and performances by pianist Ning Yu, the NOW Ensemble, flutist Tim Munro, and much more.



That’s on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.


Hour 1

  • Traditional Swedish folk music updated and performed by the Danish String Quartet.
  • David Crowell’s Waiting in the Rain for Snow.
  • Moebius-Ring by Misato Mochizuki.
  • Music for violin and cello duo by Anna Weesner, originally composed for string quartet: Sudden, Unbidden.
  • Jarkko Hartikainen’s ICE CONCERTO for violin and percussion orchestra.

Hour 2

  • Mieko by Kai-Young Chan.
  • Huang Ruo’s Becoming Another.
  • 4am from Lisa Bielawa’s Insomnia Etudes.
  • Tonia Ko’s Simple Fuel.
  • Liminal Highway for flute and electronics by Christopher Cerrone.

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