Modern Notebook for March 6, 2022

Photo: Composer Hannah Selin (Photo credit: Nicki Adams)

This week on Modern Notebook: hear bass clarinetist Alicia Lee perform a brash musical portrait from Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland. Plus, Ellen Lindquist’s “Mantra” for gamelan and orchestra.


And a work by Hannah Selin performed by soprano Stephanie Lamprea which features electronic loops and coloratura gestures, and sets text by Hilda Doolittle.


Plus: music by Beata Moon, Gabriela Lena Frank, Caroline Shaw, Kamala Sankaram, and others; and performances by the Claremont Trio, Trondheim Sinfonietta, fivebyfive, Attaca Quartet, and more.



Join Tyler Kline for 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

  • Guernica by Beata Moon.
  • Gabriela Lena Frank’s Four Folk Songs.
  • Advice from a Caterpillar from Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland.
  • Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte.
  • Concerto Grosso by Errollyn Wallen.

Hour 2

  • Interlude 1 by Molly Herron.
  • Kamala Sankaram’s Dancing About Architecture.
  • Mid-Day by Hannah Selin.
  • Ellen Lindquist’s Mantra.
  • Mother Tongues by Anna Weesner.

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