Modern Notebook for March 20, 2022

Photo: Composer Finola Merivale (photo courtesy of the artist)

Coming up on Modern Notebook this week, Tyler Kline shares a work by Kay He titled “BOKEH,” which is titled after the aesthetic quality of the lens-produced blur in photography. Plus: music by Nia Imani Franklin and Danielle Eva Schwob.


And Finola Merivale’s “oblivious/oblivion,” a nuanced work that brings awareness to the terrors of climate change.

Also featuring music by Jiyoun Chung, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kaija Saariaho, and others; and performances by Pathos Trio, fivebyfive, Unheard-of//ensemble, PUBLIQuartet, 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. Streaming at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • Serenade for solo piano by Judith Lang Zaimont.
  • Jiyoung Chung’s Freestyle Battle.
  • Tres Homenajas: Compadrazgo by Gabriela Lena Frank.
  • Finola Merivale’s oblivious/oblivion.
  • Afro-dite by Nia Imani Franklin.

Hour 2

  • Smash by Jennifer Higdon.
  • Danielle Eva Schwob’s Out of the Tunnel.
  • BOKEH by Yuanyuan (Kay) He.
  • Kaija Saariaho’s Laterna Magica.

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