Modern Notebook for May 8, 2022

Photo: Composer Gabriela Ortiz. (Photo courtesy of the artist.)

This week on Modern Notebook: Tyler Kline shares a work for violin and voice by Kaija Saariaho titled Changing Light; plus, “Aroma Foliado” by Gabriela Ortiz, a string quartet work that is both inspired by Mozart, and alternates between dream sequences and Mexican rhythms.


Featuring music by Kate Moore, Andy Akiho, Nathan Hudson, Texu Kim, John Adams, Elizabeth Hoffman, and others; and performances by pianist Danny Holt, Sandbox Percussion, Southwest Chamber Orchestra, violinist Pauline Kim Harris, and more.



That and much 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

  • Tribute to David Bowie by Mike Garson.
  • Kate Moore’s Music Box.
  • Stone Rose by Ola Gjeillo.
  • Andy Akiho’s Haiku 2.
  • Aroma Foliado by Gabriela Ortiz.
  • Nathan Hudson’s music for flying/falling.
  • Changing Light by Kaija Saariaho.

Hour 2

  • Beseeching by Texu Kim.
  • John Adams’ Naive and Sentimental Music.
  • morsels by Elizabeth Hoffman.

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