Modern Notebook for December 26, 2021

Photo: Composer Anna Meredith (Photo credit: Gem Harris)

On the final Modern Notebook of the year, Tyler Kline shares Anna Clyne’s orchestral work “The Midnight Hour.” Plus, saxophone and piano music by Baljinder Sekhon titled “Sonata of Puzzles.”


And we’ll hear the entirety of Anna Meredith’s “ANNO,” music that depicts an entire year of seasons with strings and electronics, seamlessly integrated within Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”


Plus: music by Angélica Negrón, Kenji Bunch, Julie Zhu, and others; and performances by cellist Inbal Segev, the Scottish Ensemble, pianist Daniel Pesca, saxophonist Doug O’Connor with pianist Jeremy Virgil, and more.



That’s on this week’s Modern Notebook: Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • Ruta Panorámica by Angélica Negrón.
  • Augusta Read Thomas’s Bell Illuminations.
  • 26.2 by Kenji Bunch.
  • Baljinder Sekhon’s Sonata of Puzzles.
  • The Midnight Hour by Anna Clyne.

Hour 2

  • Other of Two by Julie Zhu.
  • Anna Meredith’s ANNO (featuring moments from Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons).
  • I Wonder as I Wander from Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs.

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