Modern Notebook for October 20, 2019
Photo: Composer Steve Reich (Photo Credit: Jeffrey Herman)
Join us for the very first two-hour edition of Modern Notebook, with a set of pieces about Lights and Lines:
Hour 1
- An arrangement of Nina Simone’s Images for cello.
- John Liberatore‘s Six Line Drawings for solo piano.
- Music for clarinet + string quartet by Jennifer Higdon, featuring the Lark Quartet.
- Steve Reich‘s minimalist masterwork, Eight Lines.
Hour 2
- A new release from the Irish group Crash Ensemble performing a work called Eleven Lines of Music Slow Down and Eventually Stop.
- A movement from Laura Elise Schwendinger‘s violin concerto Chiaroscuro Azzurro.
- Kaija Saariaho‘s piano trio work Light and Matter.
- Tree Line by Toru Takemitsu.
- A composition by Caroline Shaw called Blueprint.
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