Modern Notebook for February 6, 2022

Photo: Composer/producer Devonté Hynes (Photo Credit: Katie McCurdy/GQ)

On Modern Notebook this week: Tyler Kline shares a work by Anthony Barfield for euphonium and piano called “Meditations of Sound and Light,” along with Eleanor Alberga’s String Quartet No. 3.


And a piece for mallet percussion quartet by Devonté Hynes titled “Perfectly Voiceless,” which begins with a wall of old school minimalist textures, and eventually gives way to reveal a catchy pop melody.


Plus: works by Eleanor Alberga, Stewart Goodyear, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Shelley Washington, Leila Adu-Gilmore, and others; and performances by Third Coast Percussion, euphonium soloist Demondrae Thurman, cellist Amanda Gookin, saxophonist Jeffrey Leung, 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

  • Images by Nina Simone.
  • Devonté Hynes’ Perfectly Voiceless.
  • String Quartet No. 3 by Eleanor Alberga.
  • Veronique Vaka’s Lendh.

Hour 2

  • Congotay by Stewart Goodyear.
  • Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Sonoran Storm.
  • BLACK MARY by Shelley Washington.
  • Anthony Barfield’s Meditations of Sound and Light.
  • For Edna by Leila Adu-Gilmore.

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