Modern Notebook for March 14, 2021

Photo: Composer Hannah Kendall (Photo courtesy of the artist)

Coming up on Modern Notebook this week:


Music by Noriko Koide performed by the Netherlands-based group Looptail, and a work by Kristin Nordeval for soprano and plucked piano titled Chapel Meditation.


Plus, a piece by Hannah Kendall – The Spark Catchers – which was inspired by a poem that is permanently etched into one of the electrical transformers at 2012 London Olympics Stadium.


Also featuring works by Molly Joyce, Cassie Wieland, Tonia Ko, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Patricia Brennan, Juri Seo, and Sarah Kirkland Snider; and performances by pianist Becky Billock, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Grossman Ensemble, Chineke! Orchestra, Argus Quartet, and others.



Join Tyler Kline for that and more on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 EDT on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • Medium Piano: Preludes of Pace by Molly Joyce.
  • Cassie Wieland’s To Live in Static.
  • Simple Fuel by Tonia Ko.
  • Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Aghavni.
  • Two movements from Noriko Koide’s Drie Vensters.
  • The Spark Catchers by Hannah Kendall.

Hour 2

  • Chapel Meditation by Kristin Nordeval.
  • Patricia Brennan’s Magic Square.
  • String Quartet – Infinite Season by Juri Seo.
  • Sarah Kirkland Snider’s The Reserved, The Reticent.

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