Modern Notebook for November 3, 2019
Photo: Composer Toru Takemitsu
Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday, and on Modern Notebook we will feature music about changing seasons and changing time:
- A movement from Juri Seo‘s string quartet, Infinite Season.
- David Ludwig‘s work for two violins and chamber orchestra, Seasons Lost.
- Caitlin Sullivan performs solo cello music by Sarah Kirkland Snider.
- Toru Takemitsu’s November Steps, which highlights traditional Japanese instruments, the shakuhachi and biwa, alongside a Western orchestra.
Plus, Tyler will preview a pair of events happening in Tampa featuring guest composer Anthony R. Green.
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On the final episode of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Hideaki Aomori’s Split stretches the bass clarinet to its limits, exploring the full breadth of its sound world. This hour also features Baljinder Sekhon’s Drifting Seeds for cello and harp, along with music by Anna Mieke, Vivian Fung, and more. Then: chamber music by Jessica Ackerley called Spark Surge — one of the highlights of the final hour. You’ll also hear Fumiko Miyachi’s piano duo Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange Charm , alongside music by Shirish Korde, Oliver Knussen, and others. Also in this episode: music by Tania León performed by pianist Isabel Dobarro; Claire Victoria Roberts performed by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain; Judd Greenstein performed by NOW Ensemble; Justin H. Bush performed by saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames; and flutist Tessa Brinckman performing music by Shirish Korde.
Photo: composer Aart Strootman (photo courtesy of the composer's website).
Photo: composer and cellist Andrea Casarrubios (photo credit: Titilayo Ayangade).
Photo: composer Ellie Wilson. (Photo credit: Dimitri Djuric)
Photo: Les Percussions de Strasbourg (photo credit: Christophe Urbain)
Photo: composer Daniel Thomas Davis (photo credit: Melissa Rivard).
