On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Composer Valerie Coleman grew up in West Louisville in Kentucky in what is often called a “Shot Gun House,” a type of house she describes as “a symbol of poverty throughout the South.” We’ll hear a piece by Coleman titled “Shot Gun Houses,” which was composed as an homage to the great Muhammed Ali - who also grew up in a shotgun house in West Louisville.

Then: music by J. Kimo Williams inspired by Beethoven and dedicated to the great civil rights leader John Lewis. It’s titled “With Malice Toward None,” and he says it’s music that seeks to speak to our current social and cultural climate that we face. 

Also featuring music by Alvin Singleton, Nia Imani Franklin, Brian Dozier Brown, Shelley Washington, Jessica Mays, Jeff Scott, and others; and performances by flutist Jennifer Grim, clarinetist Anthony McGill, cellist Claire Bryant and violinist Ari Streisfeld, escapeVELOCITY, and more.