Modern Notebook for August 8, 2021

Photo: Composer Jenny Beck (Photo courtesy of the artist)

On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares music for soprano and piano by Kurt Rohde from his song cycle “It wasn’t a dream.”

Plus, music by Jenny Beck performed by the antiphonal chamber-metal group Real Loud from their latest album.


Featuring music by Jeffrey Mumford, Marcos Balter, Fumiko Miyachi, Patricia Brennan, Reena Esmail, and others; and performances by violist Wendy Richman, soprano Charlotte Mundy with pianist Miori Sugiyama, Cobalt Duo, ~Nois, and more.



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


Hour 1

  • Pavan by Sally Beamish.
  • Jeffrey Mumford’s wending.
  • Intercepting a Shivery Light by Marcos Balter.
  • Fumiko Miyachi’s Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, Charm.
  • Epigram – We Fear the Undulant from Kurt Rohde’s It Wasn’t a Dream.

Hour 2

  • Away from Us by Patricia Brennan.
  • Aaron Jay Myer’s Lichens II.
  • Go in Secret by Jenny Beck.
  • Thurider Jónsdóttir’s Flutter.
  • When the Guitar by Reena Esmail.

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