Photo: Composer Courtney Bryan (photo credit: Taylor Hunter).

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: “Unity Amongst Youth of Diaspora” and “Secondline for Black Love” are the two movement names of Courtney Bryan’s “Carnival of Unity.” We’ll hear this piece as a part of a special Juneteenth lineup, plus music by Ornette Coleman, Julius Eastman, and others. And Valerie Coleman’s “Portraits of Langston,” inspired by the great Harlem Renaissance poet.


Also featuring music by Jasmine Barnes, Anthony R. Green, Brittany J. Green, Joel Thompson, Carlos Simon, Jessie Cox, and others; and performances by tenor Lawrence Brownlee and pianist Kevin J. Miller, violist Carrie Frey, fivebyfive, flutist Jennifer Grim, EXIGENCE, PUBLIQuartet, InfraSound, oboist Kyle Bruckmann, and more.

Hour 1

  • Invocation by Jasmine Barnes.
  • Anthony R. Green’s on/Zeker.
  • Carnival of Unity by Courtney Bryan.
  • Brittany J. Green’s Lead Me Home.
  • Argos III by Alvin Singleton.
  • Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.
  • We All Found Heaven by Carlos Simon.

Hour 2

  • Improvisations on Law Years and Street Woman by Ornette Coleman.
  • Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy.
  • Portraits of Langston by Valerie Coleman.
  • Jessie Cox’s AT[ou]M.
  • With Malice Toward None by J. Kimo Williams.

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