Modern Notebook for May 9, 2021

Photo: composer Nico Muhly (Photo Credit: Heidi Solander)

On this week’s Modern Notebook: Tyler Kline will share performances by the trombone, horn, and piano trio Some Assembly Required, as well as the group Desdemona with percussionist Adam Holmes.


Plus, music for three guitar quartets and choir by Nico Muhly: a movement from the composer’s large-scale work titled “How Little You Are.”


Featuring performances by Del Sol String Quartet, Cobalt Duo, violinist Tai Murray with Chineke! Orchestra, and more; and works by Ian Wiese, Errollyn Wallen, Eleanor Alberga, Akemi Naito, Hannah Kendall, Fumiko Miyachi, and others.



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

  • Chasqui from Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout.
  • Machinations I by Ian Wiese.
  • Errollyn Wallen’s Concerto Grosso.
  • Trust Fall by Adam Holmes.
  • Akemi Naito’s The Woman in the Dunes.

Hour 2

  • Joe by Hannah Kendall.
  • Fumiko Miyachi’s Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, Charm.
  • Succubus Moon by Eleanor Alberga.
  • Lera Auerbach’s An Old Photograph from the Grandparents’ Childhood.
  • The Night Herders from Nico Muhly’s How Little You Are.

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