Modern Notebook for February 13, 2022

Photo: Composer Errollyn Wallen (Photo credit: Martin Godwin)

On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares solo viola music by Jeffrey Mumford titled “wending,” which was composed for violist Wendy Richman and derives harmonic material from her name.


And a work by Errollyn Wallen titled “Hunger,” an extroverted work with sharp rhythms and harmonic contrasts, described by the composer as a “still but ravaged landscape.”


Plus, music by Bradley Harris, Hannah Kendall, Brian Dozier Brown, Pamela Z, and others; and performances by violist Wendy Richman, pianist Brianna Matzke, Unheard-of//Ensemble, and more.



That and more on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at WSMR.org.


Hour 1

  • Opened Window by Bradley Harris.
  • Doug Bristol’s Sonata for euphonium and piano.
  • Hunger by Errollyn Wallen.
  • Missy Mazzoli’s Ecstatic Science.

Hour 2

  • Joe by Hannah Kendall.
  • Jeffrey Mumford’s wending.
  • Left Wanting by Brian Dozier Brown.
  • Pamela Z’s The Unraveling.
  • Carry That Sound by Julian Joseph.

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