Photo: composer Reena Esmail (photo courtesy of the artist).

Coming up on the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: The concept of “drishti” has become known in the West through the practice of yoga. It describes a focused gaze, usually on a single point. Reena Esmail’s solo violin work of the same name also has “drishti;” a series of miniature movements interconnected by a focused note in the form of a high E harmonic.

Then: Amy Beth Kirsten’s saxophone quartet work “avalanche lily” is music inspired by the Wyoming countryside, with movements specifically named after regional wildflowers. It’s a work that weaves through bluesy harmonies, pops, shrieks, and squeals, chant-like moments that smear across pitch contours, and a kind of prismatic architecture across it’s five movements.


Plus, music by SiHyun Uhm, Claire Victoria Roberts, Libby Larsen, Bess McCrary, Alyssa Morris, Caterina Schembri, Victoria Cheah, Mirama Young, and others; and performances by pianist Eun-Hee Park, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Colorado Symphony, violinist Simone Porter, soprano Laura Strickling with pianist Daniel Schlosberg, English horn soloist Lindsay Flowers and oboist Andrew Parker with pianist Satoko Hayami, Lyrebird Brass, vocalist Michelle O’Rourke with Ficino Ensemble, New Thread Quartet, flutist Roberta Michel, saxophonist Kyle Jones with pianist Timothy Jones, and more.