Modern Notebook for January 23, 2022

Photo: Composer Lei Liang (Photo: U-T San Diego/Howard Lipin)

On this week’s Modern Notebook: Tyler Kline shares a work for voice, piano, and harmonium by Fumiko Miyachi titled Myojo, which sets the poetry of Toson Shimazaki. Plus, Song Recollections by Lei Liang, a string quartet work based on Taiwanese folk music.


Also featuring works by Molly Heron, Anna Clyne, Seunghee Lee, Shulamit Ran, Ben-Yee Paulson, and others; and performances by pianist Kate Halsall with vocalist Loré Lixenberg, Formosa Quartet, Science Ficta, pianist Eunmi Ko, the Grossman Ensemble, cellist Thomas Mesa, and more.



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


Hour 1

  • After Picforth by Molly Heron.
  • Anna Clyne’s Night Ferry.
  • Flying Kite by Seunghee Lee.
  • Lei Liang’s Song Recollections.

Hour 2

  • Reunion Ibis by Whitney George.
  • Vivian Fine’s Songs and Arias.
  • Grand Rounds by Shulamit Ran.
  • Ben-Yee Paulson’s Suite for Solo Cello.
  • Myojo by Fumiko Miyachi.

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