Modern Notebook for August 28, 2022

Photo: Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (Photo credit: Christine Turner)

Coming up on this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares music by Ledah Finck that confronts the multitudes of crises the world faces in our current moment, called “In the Brink,” Plus, “It Feels Like a Mountain, Chasing Me,” by Daniel Bernard Roumain. It’s music for piano composed for Eunbi Kim interwoven with a conversation about her Korean immigrant parents.


Featuring works by Angélica Negrón, Dai Fujikura, Vijay Iyer, Xiaogang Ye, Annika Socolofsky, and others; and performances by Bergamot Quartet, pianist Eunbi Kim, guitarist Soichi Muraji, PUBLIQuartet, Latitude 49, and more.



That’s on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Stream online at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • La Intervencion by Angélica Negrón.
  • Dai Fujikura’s Chance Monsoon.
  • Dig the Say by Vijay Iyer.
  • John Adam’s Lollapalooza.
  • Earring by Julia Wolfe.
  • Shulamit Ran’s Soliloquy.
  • Concerto of Life by Xiaogang Ye.

Hour 2


  • Reverie by Hannah Peel.
  • Ka Nin Chan’s Piao.
  • In the Brink by Ledah Finck.
  • Daniel Bernard Roumain’s It Feels Like a Mountain, Chasing Me.
  • a sense of who by Annika Socolofsky.

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