Modern Notebook for January 12 - 18, 2025

Photo: composer Alexandre David (photo credit: Éva Maude).

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: tune in for music for violin and piano by Platon Buravicky titled “Angel’s Gaze,” and pieces by Margaret Brouwer and Gabriela Ortiz. And a work for brass by Lillian Yee titled “Miracles of the Human Condition.”


Then: Composer Alexandre David says that he has always had a funny relationship with music as a listener, sometimes coldly analyziing it, and other times, allowing himself to be completely inhabited by it. We’ll hear a work of David’s titled “Photogrammes,” which explores this idea through musical transformation.


Plus, music by Max Grafe, Ancel Fitz Neeley, Lisa Illean, and Angel Lam; and performances by bassoonists Cornelia Sommer and Kathleen McLean, violinist Sophia Kirsanova with pianist Georgina Lewis, Calliope Brass, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Orchestre de l’Agora, and more.

Hour 1

  • Rumpelstilzchentanz by Max Grafe.
  • Platon Buravicky’s Angel’s Gaze.
  • Miracles of the Human Condition by Lillian Yee.
  • Margaret Brouwer’s Rhapsody, Concerto for Orchestra.
  • Rio Bravo by Gabriela Ortiz.

Hour 2

  • CMYK by Ancel Fitz Neeley.
  • Alexandre David’s Photogrammes.
  • Tiding II (silentium) by Lisa Illean.
  • Angel Lam’s Whispers of Sea Rivers.

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