Modern Notebook for June 6, 2021

Photo: Composer Toshio Hosokawa (Photo credit: Kazu Ishikawa)

On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares music for solo harp by Johanna Selleck titled Spindrift. Plus: works by Vivian Fung and Jeffrey Mumford.


And a newly-released recording of Toshio Hosokawa’s piano concerto, “Lotus under the moonlight,” which was composed in commemoration of Mozart’s 250th birth anniversary.


Featuring works by Dorothy Hindman, Nico Muhly, and others; and performances by pianist Momo Kodama, violist Eliesha Nelson with double bassist Scott Dixon, Transient Canvas, violinist Kristin Lee, and more.



Tune in for Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.


Hour 1

  • Water Dance III by Karen Tanaka.
  • Dorothy Hindman’s Beyond the Cloud of Unknowing.
  • Spindrift by Johanna Selleck.
  • Toshio Hosokawa’s Lotus under the moonlight.
  • through the filtering dawn of spreading daybright by Jeffrey Mumford.

Hour 2

  • Interlude, Springtime from Nico Muhly’s How Little You Are.
  • Crystal Pascucci’s resonance imaging.
  • Violin Concerto by Vivian Fung.
  • Konstantia Gourzi’s Anájikon, The Angel in the Blue Garden.

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