Hour 1
- Hum Away, Strings! by Isidora Žebeljan
- Jessie Montgomery’s Soul Force
- hands by Cassie Wieland
- Colin Jacobsen’s A Short While to Be Here...
- Nipper by Kitty Xiao
- Lillian Yee’s The First Six
- Ave Verum Corpus by James Woodhall
Modern Notebook for July 26 - August 2, 2025
Photo: composer Liza Lim (photo credit: Astrid Ackermann).
On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: With the earth as muse, Colin Jacobsen offers a musical tribute to Ruth Crawford Seeger in his piece A Short While to Be Here… — imagining the voice she might have found had she lived longer. Weaving together folk memories, modernist language, and the fleeting beauty of life on this fragile planet, his piece pulses with reverence for all who come and go.
Then: Liza Lim’s cello concerto, A Sutured World, took shape through months of frustration and discovery — an act of sewing together broken fragments to reveal something whole and luminous. Like golden joins in shattered pottery, her music traces the line between damage and healing.
Also featured this week are composers Isidora Zebeljan, Jessie Montgomery, Cassie Wieland, Kitty Xiao, Lillian Yee, James Woodhall, Sinan C. Savaskan, and Yukiko Watanabe. Performers include Daniel Rowland and Nino Gvetadz, the New York Youth Symphony, Jessica Pollack, Brooklyn Rider, Nimbus Trio, International Low Brass Trio, Cantores Lucis, Noemi Gyori, Nicolas Alstaedt with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Longleash.
Hour 2
- Always at Dusk, No. 3 by Sinan C. Savaşkan
- Liza Lim’s A Sutured World
- ver_flies_sen by Yukiko Watanabe
Recent Shows
On the final episode of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Hideaki Aomori’s Split stretches the bass clarinet to its limits, exploring the full breadth of its sound world. This hour also features Baljinder Sekhon’s Drifting Seeds for cello and harp, along with music by Anna Mieke, Vivian Fung, and more. Then: chamber music by Jessica Ackerley called Spark Surge — one of the highlights of the final hour. You’ll also hear Fumiko Miyachi’s piano duo Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange Charm , alongside music by Shirish Korde, Oliver Knussen, and others. Also in this episode: music by Tania León performed by pianist Isabel Dobarro; Claire Victoria Roberts performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain; Judd Greenstein performed by NOW Ensemble; Justin H. Bush performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames; and flutist Tessa Brinckman performing music by Shirish Korde.
Photo: composer Aart Strootman (photo courtesy of the composer's website).
Photo: composer and cellist Andrea Casarrubios (photo credit: Titilayo Ayangade).
Photo: composer Ellie Wilson. (Photo credit: Dimitri Djuric)
Photo: Les Percussions de Strasbourg (photo credit: Christophe Urbain)
Photo: composer Daniel Thomas Davis (photo credit: Melissa Rivard).
