Modern Notebook for June 12, 2022

Photo: Bergamot Quartet (photo credit: Corey Hayes)

Coming up on this week’s Modern Notebook, hear music by Paul Wiancko from the Bergamot Quartet’s latest release; pianist Vicky Chow performs music by Jane Antonia Cornish; and “The Dharma at Big Sur” by John Adams, which is meant to express the so-called “shock of recognition” when one reaches the edge of the continental land mass.


Featuring works by Narong Prangcharoen, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Vivian Fung, Emily Koh, and others; and performances by Heare Ensemble, cellist Matt Haimovitz, Transient Canvas, Friction Quartet, and more.



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


Hour 1

  • Memory of Trees by Gary Schocker.
  • Narong Prangcharoen’s Bencharong.
  • Cyclical Rabbits by Niloufar Nourbakhsh.
  • Meera Gudipati’s Ashakiran “Ray of Hope.”
  • Coyote Blues by Magnus Lindberg.
  • Paul Wiancko’s Ode on a Broken Loom.
  • Last Light by Jane Antonia Cornish.

Hour 2

  • Kotekan from Vivian Fung’s Glimpses for Prepared Piano.
  • Emily Koh’s \very/ specifically vague.
  • The California Crest by Max Stoffregen.
  • John Adam’s The Dharma at Big Sur.

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