Modern Notebook for August 29, 2021

Photo: Duo della Luna (Violinist Airi Yoshioka and soprano/composer Susan Botti). Photo credit: Davide Dell’Agostino

On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline has a line up full of new releases, including pianist Miki Sawada performing music by Brendon Randall-Myers from their new album; new music for viola da gamba ensemble by Molly Herron.


And a piece titled “Mangetsu” – full moon – performed by the soprano and violin duo Duo della Luna.


Plus: performances by Science Ficta, alto saxophonist Nicki Roman with pianist Casey Dierlam Tse, Longleash, and more; and music by Kevin Day, Kareem Rouston, Shelley Washington, Yukiko Watanabe, and others.



That and more on the next Modern Notebook – Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.


Hour 1

  • Lyra from Constellations by David Liptak.
  • Molly Heron’s Canon No. 3 and Trill.
  • Unquiet Waters by Kevin Day.
  • Embroidered Verses: Songs on Andalusian Poetry by Kareem Rouston.
  • Dai Fujikura’s Sakana.

Hour 2

  • Chrysalis by Sarah Kirkland Snider.
  • Shelley Washington’s Middleground.
  • Mangetsu by Susan Botti.
  • Brendon Randall-Myers’ Cascade.
  • ver_flies_sen by Yukiko Watanabe.

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