Modern Notebook for July 31, 2022

Photo: composer Nico Muhly (Photo Credit: Heidi Solander)

On Modern Notebook this week, Tyler Kline shares a work by Gity Razaz titled “Songs and Whispers,” which explores blending pure atmospheric sounds with Iranian music. Also, music by Nicky Sohn titled “Lullaby for Those Fast Asleep,” and Nico Muhly’s From Here On Out – music composed to accompany dance.


Plus music by Huang Ruo, Garrett Schumann, Dobrinka Tabakova, Naoko Hishinuma, and others; and performances by violist Kimia Hesabi, violinist Lucia Lin with pianist Gloria Chien, Latitude 49, PRISM Quartet, Conor and Ayano Duo, and more.



That and much more on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Listen online at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • Fanfare from Huang Ruo’s Two Pieces for Orchestra.
  • Nicky Sohn’s Lullaby for Those Fast Asleep.
  • A Five-Note Chord, seen from the porch of a curious mind by Garrett Schumann.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova’s Halo.
  • Motion Lines by Joseph Sowa.
  • Gity Razaz’s Songs and Whispers.
  • Thousandths by Paul Wiancko.

Hour 2

  • Lightwell by Margaret Hermant.
  • Naoko Hishinuma’s On a Full Moon Night.
  • From Here On Out by Nico Muhly.
  • Judith Lang Zaimont’s String Quartet “The Figure.”

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