Modern Notebook for July 11, 2021

Photo: Composer and trombonist Jen Baker (Photo credit: Daniel Welch)

On the next Modern Notebook: tune in for solo piano music by Billy Childs titled “Pursuit,” which is partly inspired by Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit, and is also meant to evoke the feelings of being pursued.


And a work by Jen Baker titled Lightsicle Sirens, which was recorded in an outdoor parking garage last year in the midst of the pandemic.


Plus: works by Peter van Zandt Lane, Lei Liang, Nina Simone, inti figgis-vizueta, Kate Moore, and others; and performances by Aizuri Quartet, pianist Inna Faliks, Wavefield Ensemble, violinist Patrick Yim, and more.



Join Tyler Kline for the next Modern Notebook: Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.


Hour 1

  • Images by Nina Simone.
  • Yevginy Sharlat’s RIPEFG.
  • Xiaoxiang by Lei Liang.
  • Billy Childs’ Pursuit.
  • Lightsicle Sirens by Jen Baker.

Hour 2

  • the motion between three worlds by inti figgis-vizueta.
  • Peter van Zandt Lane’s Studies in Momentum.
  • String Quartet 1.5: Experiments in Living by George Lewis.
  • Kate Moore’s Music Box.
  • Miles Upon Miles by Austin Yip.

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