Modern Notebook for May 16, 2021

Photo: Composer Jocelyn Morlock (Photo credit: Gary Sean Loewen)

On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares solo piano music by Tyshawn Sorey from his large-scale work “The Inner Spectrum of Variables.” Also, music by Seunghee Lee performed by pianist Eunmi Ko and the McCormick Percussion Group. And, a moving work by Jocelyn Morlock titled “My Name is Amanda Todd.”


Plus: works by Dai Fujikura, Patricia Brennan, Julian Joseph, Tyshawn Sorey, and others; and performances by the Goldfield Ensemble, Chineke! Orchestra, euphoniumist Demondrae Thurman, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, and more.



That and more on this week’s Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.


Hour 1

  • Canvas the Bear by Niko Schroeder.
  • Dai Fujikura’s Halcyon.
  • Sonnet by Patricia Brennan.
  • Anna Clyne’s Night Ferry.
  • Carry That Sound! by Julian Joseph.

Hour 2

  • The first movement of Tyshawn Sorey’s Inner Spectrum of Variables.
  • String Trio by Jennifer Higdon.
  • Barbara York’s Sonata for euphonium and piano, “Child’s Play”.
  • Pung-Kyung by Seunghee Lee.
  • Jocelyn Morlock’s My Name is Amanda Todd.

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