Modern Notebook for July 13

Modern Notebook for July 13 - 19, 2025

Photo: composer Sarah Louise Bassingthwaighte. (photo courtesy of the composer's website).

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Inspired by dance, Daniel Pesca’s Gestures of Grace explores movement in sound — spinning, gliding, and unfolding with a sense of elegance and surprise. It’s a vibrant duo for flute and piano, written as a tribute to a long musical friendship.

Then: The double bass takes center stage in Sarah Louise Bassingthwaighte’s Concerto for Double Bass, a sweeping three-movement work that explores sorrow, humor, and catharsis. From haunting harmonics to cheeky pizzicato to a blazing finale, it’s a full-spectrum portrait of sound and feeling.

Also featured this week are composers Nicolás Lell Benavides, Patrice Rush, Jeffrey Mumford, Nicholas Bacri, Dawn Avery, Neil Thornock, Emma O’Halloran, Dan Trueman, and Hannah Kendall. Performers include the International Low Brass Trio, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Sarah Frisof, Eliesha Nelson, Scott Dixon, Francois Leleux, Wilhelmina Smith, Coalescent Quartet, Steve Schermer with the London Symphony Orchestra, Brooklyn Rider, and the Hallé.

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