Modern Notebook for July 25, 2021

Photo: Composer Hannah Lash (Photo Credit: Bob Handelman)

On the next Modern Notebook: Tyler Kline shares a work for augmented piano by Ofer Pelz titled Backwards Inductions… along with music by Aaron Jay Myers performed by the duo Transient Canvas.


Plus: a new release from the woodwind quintet The City of Tomorrow, with music by Hannah Lash.


Featuring works by Lisa Bielawa, Gabriela Lena Frank, Carlos Simon, Akemi Naito, and others; and performances by pianist Amit Dolberg, cellist Matt Haimovitz, pianist Phoebe Wu with violinist Teagan Faran and cellist Victor Huls, and more.



Tune in for Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.


Hour 1

  • Get Into the Now: II. Years of Me by Jessica Meyer.
  • Ofer Pelz’s Backwards Inductions.
  • Leander and Hero by Hannah Lash.
  • Lisa Bielawa’s Missa Primavera.

Hour 2

  • Glimpses for Prepared Piano: III. Chant by Vivian Fung.
  • Have-Not by Aaron Jay Myers.
  • Gabriela Lena Frank’s Sonata Andina.
  • Be Still and Know by Carlos Simon.
  • Akemi Naito’s Mindscape – Four Poetic Images.

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