Hour 1
- Moxie by Nicole Chamberlain
- Aso Kohzadi’s Avaz
- Burning by Nicky Sohn
- James Grant’s Listen to the Earth
Modern Notebook for August 3 - 9, 2025
Photo: composer Anna Clyne (photo credit: Victoria Stevens).
On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: In Listen to the Earth, James Grant takes us aboard Apollo 11 — from liftoff, through orbit, all the way to the lunar surface. Drawing from NASA transcripts, environmental texts, and his own poetic reflections, Grant’s music becomes a call to witness our planet’s beauty from space — and to care for it with everything we’ve got.
Then: Inspired by a Mark Rothko painting, Anna Clyne’s Color Field imagines sound as color and color as sound — with musical movements tied to yellow, red, and orange. Each section draws from synesthesia and Scriabin’s color-pitch associations, blending warmth, fire, and calm into a vivid, sonic canvas.
Also featured this week are works by Nicole Chamberlain, Aso Kohzadi, Nicky Sohn, Caimin Gilmore, Reena Esmail, Shawn E. Okpebholo, and Akshaya Avril Tucker. Performances by the Chamber Winds of South Dakota, cellist Benjamin Larsen, pianist Ava Nazar, the ensemble Musiqa, baritone Marcus DeLoach, the Temple University Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra, cellist Kate Ellis, harpist Lavinia Meijer, pianist Nicholas Phillips, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Elicio Winds, and the quartet Brooklyn Rider.
Hour 2
- BlackGate: MVE I by Caimin Gilmore
- Reena Esmail’s Rang De Basant
- Color Field by Anna Clyne
- Shawn E. Okpebholo’s lullaby | ballad | spiritual
- Hollow Flame by Akshaya Avril Tucker
Recent Shows
On the final episode of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Hideaki Aomori’s Split stretches the bass clarinet to its limits, exploring the full breadth of its sound world. This hour also features Baljinder Sekhon’s Drifting Seeds for cello and harp, along with music by Anna Mieke, Vivian Fung, and more. Then: chamber music by Jessica Ackerley called Spark Surge — one of the highlights of the final hour. You’ll also hear Fumiko Miyachi’s piano duo Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange Charm , alongside music by Shirish Korde, Oliver Knussen, and others. Also in this episode: music by Tania León performed by pianist Isabel Dobarro; Claire Victoria Roberts performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain; Judd Greenstein performed by NOW Ensemble; Justin H. Bush performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames; and flutist Tessa Brinckman performing music by Shirish Korde.
Photo: composer Aart Strootman (photo courtesy of the composer's website).
Photo: composer and cellist Andrea Casarrubios (photo credit: Titilayo Ayangade).
Photo: composer Ellie Wilson. (Photo credit: Dimitri Djuric)
Photo: Les Percussions de Strasbourg (photo credit: Christophe Urbain)
Photo: composer Daniel Thomas Davis (photo credit: Melissa Rivard).
