Modern Notebook for June 26, 2022

Photo: Composer Jane Antonia Cornish and pianist Vicky Chow (Photo by Anna King)

On the next Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares Tania Leon’s “Esencia,” string quartet music that reflects the composer’s unique vantage point on music from the Caribbean and Latin America. And Jane Antonia Cornish’s “Sierra,” for four pianos… a vivid musical meditation on how our deep connection to nature can move us to an inner stillness and awaken the creative impulse.


Plus music by Rain Worthington, Nathaniel Heyder, Vijay Iyer, Marti Epstein, India Gailey, Hannah Peel, and others; and performances by cellist Inbal Segev, Cobalt Duo, harpist Yolanda Kondanassis, pianist Vicky Chow, Bergamot Quartet, Latitude 49, and more.



That and 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

  • Nursery by Beata Moon.
  • Rain Worthington’s Within Deep Currents.
  • Earthview by Nathaniel Heyder.
  • Vijay Iyer’s The Window.
  • Nebraska Impromptu by Marti Epstein.
  • Christopher Rouse’s Prospero’s Room.
  • Excerpts from Sarah Lianne Lewis’ “I Have Observed the Most Distant Planet to Have a Triple Form.”

Hour 2

  • Ghost by India Gailey.
  • Jane Antonia Cornish’s Sierra.
  • Esencia by Tania Léon.
  • Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Thread and Fray.
  • The Universe Before Matter by Hannah Peel.

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