Modern Notebook for August 4 - 10, 2024

Photo: composer John Mackey (photo courtesy of the artist).

Coming up on the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Pianist Michael Mizrahi has a new album out titled “Dreamspace,” and it’s a collection of music for solo piano intended to give space for dreaming. We’ll share a selection from the album, as well as pieces by Laurie San Martin, Jeffrey Mumford, and others.


Then, composer John Mackey says that he sees the saxophone as essentially a brass instrument: it’s made of metal, yet it uses wood to produce sound. We’ll hear a Soprano Saxophone Concerto by Mackey that draws on the physical materials of a saxophone as musical inspiration.


Also featuring music by Huang Ruo, Nathaniel Heyder, Kevin Puts, Nina C. Young, Sun Young Park, Outi Tarkianen, and others; and performances by cellist Rhonda Rider, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, violist Jordan Bak, Conspirare, Unheard-of//Ensemble, saxophone Stephen Page with pianist Liz Ames, shakuhachi soloist Kojiro Umezaki with Hub New Music, and others.

Hour 1

  • Fanfare from Two Pieces from Orchestra by Huang Ruo.
  • Laurie San Martin’s Vast Steppe.
  • Earthview by Nathaniel Heyder.
  • Joanne Metcalf’s The Undreaming.
  • Evergreen by Kevin Puts.
  • Jeffrey Mumford’s wending.
  • Loud Music for Quiet Places by Christian Quiñones.

Hour 2

  • pentimento by Nina C. Young.
  • John Mackey’s Soprano Saxophone Concerto.
  • Moonlight by Sun Young Park.
  • Outi Tarkiainen’s The Ring of Fire and Love.

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