On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Andrea Casarrubios wrote Herencia — meaning both “heritage” and “inheritance” — not with a genre in mind, but with specific performers. She imagined the musicians of Sphinx Virtuosi stepping onstage, each carrying their own personal and cultural history, converging into a collective intention to illuminate the world through music.

Then: Martin Bresnick’s Mending Time draws inspiration from Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall, and the famous line: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” Scored for four saxophones, the piece reflects on the walls we build — for safety, for expression, for division — and invites us to consider how those barriers might also be mended.



Also in this episode: music by John Christopher Wineglass performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames, Jeffrey Paul performed by cedar flutist Bryan Akipa and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Anna Clyne performed by cellist Inbal Segev and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Shuying Li performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Aaron Helgeson performed by pianist Donald Berman, Liza Lim performed by JACK Quartet, and Thurídur Jónsdóttir performed by flutist Mario Caroli and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.