Modern Notebook for May 19 - 25, 2024

Photo: Composer Juri Seo (photo credit: Andrew Wilkinson).

Coming up on this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline, we’re celebrating Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a mix of music from US-based composers of Asian descent, like Andy Akiho, Beata Moon, Lei Liang, Emily Koh, Juri Seo, and others; plus, new music for cello and piano by Kenji Bunch titled “Broken Music.”


Join us for works by Texu Kim, Karen Tanaka, Eun Young Lee, Yu-Hui Chang, and others; and performances by marimba soloist Ian Rosenbaum with the Dover Quartet, cellist Matt Haimovitz, cellist Clancy Newman with pianist Natalie Zhu, pianist Liza Stepanova, violist Jordan Bak, PRISM Quartet, Transient Canvas, Lydian String Quartet, and more.



Hour 1

  • LIgNEouS IV by Andy Akiho.
  • Texu Kim’s Beseeching.
  • Broken Music by Kenji Bunch.
  • Karen Tanaka’s Children of Light, No. 5.
  • Lake by Lei Liang.
  • Beata Moon’s Vignettes.

Hour 2

  • Eun Young Lee’s Mool.
  • The Stream Flows by Bright Sheng.
  • Juri Seo’s Unsung Lullaby.
  • \very/ specifically vague by Emily Koh.
  • Yu-Hui Chang’s Mind Like Water.

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