Modern Notebook for June 2 - 8, 2024

Photo: composer Justine F. Chen (photo credit: Steven Laxton).

On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: tune in for solo cello music by Canadian-Argentine composer Analia Llugdar composed for Matt Haimovitz’s Primavera project… it’s a work that captures a sense of breath via all the different sounds of the cello.


Then: Jena Osman’s collection of essay-poems MOTION STUDIES is the foundation of Justine F. Chen’s piece “Shallow Breath and Stealth.” It’s a massive choral work that draws on Osman’s meditations that begin with 19th-century science and ends as research into the present day.


Plus, music by Chloe Knibbs, Andy Akiho, Milton Nascimento, Osnat Netzer, Tyshawn Sorey, Norio Fukushi, Hee Yun Kim, and others; and performances by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, fivebyfive, pianist Cory Smythe, the Crossing, flutist Tessa Brinckman with guitarist Caroline Delume, and more.

Hour 1

  • Strings Bilateral by Chloe Knibbs.
  • Andy Akiho’s Translucent.
  • Cravo e Canela by Milton Nascimento.
  • Analia Llugdar’s Anima vento.
  • 26.2 by Kenji Bunch.
  • Miguel del Agúila’s Tamboreno.
  • away dream all away by Osnat Netzer.

Hour 2

  • Introduction from Tyshawn Sorey’s The Inner Spectrum of Variables.
  • Justine F. Chen’s Shallow Breath and Stealth.
  • Dawn Brightens the Day of Mortals Robed in Purple by Norio Fukushi.
  • Hee Yun Kim’s Lethe - The River of Forgetfulness.

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