Modern Notebook for July 24, 2022

Photo: Composer Ken Ueno (Photo credit: Peter Gannushkin)

On the next Modern Notebook, hear solo piano music by Hannah Kendall titled “On the Chequer’d Field Array’d,” which depicts the three stages of a chess game. Also, the duo RighteousGIRLS perform music by Andy Akiho. And Ken Ueno’s “Peradam,” a string quartet work that features throat singing.


Plus: music by John Adams, Annika Socolofsky, Bosba Panh, Finola Merivale, Gabriela Ortiz, and others; and performances by Parhelion Trio, guitarist Jamie Monck, Del Sol String Quartet, pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen, RighteousGIRLS, and more.



Join Tyler Kline for Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • China Gates by John Adams.
  • Patrick Burke’s All Together Now.
  • Turadh by Annika Socolofsky.
  • Bosba Panh’s Dizzy Night.
  • Nebula, Blooming by Sayo Kosugi.
  • Lei Liang’s In Praise of Shadows.
  • Release by Finola Merivale.

Hour 2

  • KARakurENAI by Andy Akiho.
  • Hannah Kendall’s On the Chequer’d Field Array’d.
  • Peradam by Ken Ueno.
  • Gabriela Ortiz’s Rio di las Mariposas.
  • Karnavalito No. 1 by Gabriela Lena Frank.

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