Modern Notebook for July 10, 2022

Photo: Composer Finola Merivale (photo courtesy of the artist)

Coming up on the next Modern Notebook, hear music by Deen T. Grossman titled “Waterways,” which musically portrays Oregon’s Willamette River, and Finola Merivale’s “The Language of Mountains is Rain,” inspired by the landscape of Hong Kong: maximum urban density surrounded by mountains and the sea.


Plus: music by Jeffrey Mumford, Tonia Ko, Michael-Thomas Foumai, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and others; and performances by Desdemona, violinist Lucia Lin with harpist Charles Overton, RighteousGIRLS, Unheard-of//Ensemble, and more.


Join Tyler Kline for the next Modern Notebook: Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Listen online at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • Toru Takemitsu’ arrangement of Here, There, and Everywhere by the Beatles.
  • Sunglitter by Jane Antonia Cornish.
  • Jeffrey Mumford’s in the community of passing hours.
  • Hum Phenomenon by Tonia Ko.
  • Michael-Thomas Foumai’s Printing Kapa.
  • …nobody move… by Randy Woolf.
  • Barbara White’s Fool Me Once.

Hour 2

  • Quest  by Niloufar Nourbakhsh.
  • Finola Merivale’s The Language of Mountains is Rain.
  • Waterways by Deena T. Grossman.
  • Mike Garson’s Homage to Ligeti.

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