Modern Notebook for October 24, 2021

Photo: Composer Chen Yi (Photo Credit Beijing Kuandi)

On this week’s Modern Notebook Tyler Kline shares a work by Stacy Garrop for wind quintet titled “Rites for the Afterlife.” Also, pianist Stewart Goodyear performs music by Anthony Davis.


And the Symphony No. 2 by Chen Yi, which draws on aspects unique to Beijing opera.


Plus: works by Shuying Li, Nina C. Young, Edward Hamel, Yevgeniy Sharlat, and others; and performances by Akropolis Reed Quintet, Four Corners Ensemble, violinist Jennifer Koh, cellist Seth Parker Woods, and more.



That’s 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

  • Great White Bird by Hilary Kleinig.
  • Shuying Li’s The Dryad.
  • Rites for the Afterlife by Stacy Garrop.
  • Anthony Davis’s Middle Passage.
  • Sun Propeller by Nina C. Young.

Hour 2

  • Gray Neon Life by Edward Hamel.
  • Yevgeniy Sharlat’s Spare the Rod!
  • Passing Ships by Jay Vosk.
  • Chen Yi’s Symphony No. 2.

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