Hour 1
- Revanche by Sufjan Stevens
- Chen Yi’s Distance Can't Keep Us Two Apart
- Three Curious Loves by Isidora Žebeljan
- Paul Moravec’s Your Own Shadow
- Invocation by Richard Festinger
- Bianca Gismonti and Salomao Soares’s Navegador de Silencios
Modern Notebook for June 22 - 28, 2025
Photo: composer Libby Larsen (courtesy of the composer's website).
On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: A tender farewell, a storm of emotion, and a swirl of nostalgia — Isidora Žebeljan’s final work, Three Curious Loves, is a violin concerto that moves from gentle lyricism to wild, virtuosic energy. It’s a deeply intimate piece that feels like memory set to music.
Then: Hayden Carruth’s Emergency Haying is a poem about labor — about the hard, physical work of tending land. But composer Libby Larsen saw something deeper: a quiet meditation on injustice, on lives shaped by weather, by price, by need. Her setting of the poem is raw and grounded, like the earth it comes from.
Featuring music by Sufjan Stevens, Chen Yi, Isidora Žebeljan, Paul Moravec, Richard Festinger, Bianca Gismonti, Salomao Soares, Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Olivia Marckx), Ryuichi Sakamoto, Libby Larsen, Fumihiro Ono, and Jens Ibsen. Including performances by pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick, Coalescent Quartet, violinist Daniel Rowland with Zebeljan Orchestra, cellist Matt Haimovitz, Calefax Reed Quintet, violinist Francesca Anderegg with pianist Erika Ribeiro, violinist Simone Porter, pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, bass-baritone Alan Dunbar with Winona Symphony Orchestra, Duo AYA, and violinist Teagan Faran.
Hour 2
- Improvisation on "O Virtus Sapientiae" by Hildegard von Bingen/Olivia Marckx
- Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 20211201
- Emergency Haying by Libby Larsen
- Fumihiro Ono’s Water Planet
- Temptress by Jens Ibsen
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).
