Modern Notebook for November 15, 2020

Photo: Cellist Katinka Kleijn (Photo Credit: Paul Elledge.)

This week on Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline shares a work for bass clarinet and marimba by Stefanie Lubkowski called “Right now, in a second,” along with music by Jeffrey Mumford and Alexandra Gardner. Also, cellist Katinka Kleijn performs a concerto by Dai Fujikura that he was commissioned to write for his own birthday.

Plus, music by Toru Takemitsu, Shuying Li, Laura Elise Schwendinger, Oliver Leith, and others; and performances by pianist Chen-Hui Jen, Transient Canvas, soprano Jamie Van Eyck, violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, PRISM Quartet, and more.

That’s on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.

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