Modern Notebook for January 30, 2022

Photo: Composer Du Yun (Photo credit: Xiao Nan/Elle China)

On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline celebrates the upcoming Lunar New Year – the Year of the Tiger – with Toshio Hosokawa’s piano concerto “Lotus Under the Moonlight.”


Plus, Du Yun’s “When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa,” music that is inspired by a line of poetry the composer encountered on a broken mural in rural China.


Also featuring works by Chen Yi, Akemi Naito, Huang Ruo, Xiaogang Ye, Shuying Li, and others; and performances by violinist Patrick Yim, Third Sound, soprano Liping Zhang, pianist Momo Kodama, Four Corners Ensemble, and more.



That’s 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

  • Memory by Chen Yi.
  • Akemi Naito’s Voyage.
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 “Omnipresence” by Huang Ruo.
  • Lines from Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee’s Dots, Lines, Convergences: Concerto for Zheng and Chamber Ensemble.

Hour 2

  • Mieko by Kai-Young Chan.
  • Tale of Sorrowful Song from Xiaogang Ye’s The Song of the Earth.
  • Du Yun’s When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa.
  • Lotus Under the Moonlight by Toshio Hosokawa.
  • Shuying Li’s American Variations.

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