Modern Notebook for July 18, 2021

Photo: Composer Kinan Abou-Afach (Courtesy of the Artist)

On this week’s Modern Notebook: Join Tyler Kline for solo cello music by Vijay Iyer titled “Equal Night”… and a work by Andrew Noseworthy for tenor saxophone and electronics called “Pull Up.”


Plus: Kinan Abou-Afach’s Of Nights and Solace: a Fantasia on Andalusian Muwashah Poetry… it’s music for choir and an ensemble of traditional Arabic instruments.


Featuring music by Beata Moon, Nico Muhly, Fabio Massimo Capogrosso, Eleanor Alberga, and Anna Weesner; and performances by pianist Eunmi Ko, tenor saxophonist Greg Bruce, The Crossing with Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble, and more.



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


Hour 1

  • Guernica by Beata Moon.
  • Vijay Iyer’s Equal Night.
  • Of Nights and Solace: Fantasia on Andalusian Muwashah Poetry by Kinan Abou-Afach.
  • Nico Muhly’s Motion.
  • Pull Up by Andrew Noseworthy.

Hour 2

  • Prelude on a Fragment by Isang Yun by Fabio Massimo Capogrosso.
  • Toru Takemitsu’s Toward the Sea.
  • String Quartet No. 3 by Eleanor Alberga.
  • Anna Weesner’s Mother Tongues.

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