Modern Notebook for May 30, 2021

Photo: Composer Maya Verlaak (Photo courtesy of the artist)

On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares music for piano and electronics by Elainie Lillios called “Nostalgic Visions,” from a newly released recording.


Plus, a piece by Maya Verlaak titled “Song and Dance.” It’s music she describes as “an excessively elaborate effort to explain” the compositional process.


Featuring music by Kenji Bunch, Mark Zanter, Eleanor Alberga, Annika Socolofksy, and others; and performances by Apartment House, Trifecta!, Latitude 49, pianist Peng-Chian Chen, Parhelion Trio, 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

  • Forest Bird by Katherine Hoover.
  • Aidan Ramsay’s Hollowlight.
  • String Circle by Kenji Bunch.
  • Maya Verlaak’s Song and Dance.
  • Cumulus Accumulation by Mark Zanter.

Hour 2

  • Thread and Fray by Sarah Kirkland Snider.
  • Elainie Lillios’s Nostalgic Visions.
  • No-Man’s-Land Lullaby by Eleanor Alberga.
  • William David Cooper’s An den Wassern zu Babel.
  • Turadh by Annika Socolofsky.

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