Modern Notebook for October 27, 2019

Photo: Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis (Photo credit: Mark Battrell)

This week’s Modern Notebook includes performances by the group NOW Ensemble and a brand new harp concerto with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis. Plus, music by Andrew Norman, Shelley Washington, György Ligeti, and more:

Hour 1

NOW Ensemble performs music by Patrick Burke.
Andrew McIntosh‘s We See the Flying Bird for two percussionists.
A new Harp Concerto from Jennifer Higdon which was released this past May.
Crash Ensemble performs music by Amanda Feery.
A work by Andrew Norman inspired by one of the oldest churches in Rome, performed by violist Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti.

Hour 2

Solo piano music by Angelica Negrón performed by Nicholas Phillips.
Lontano by György Ligeti.
Shelley Washington‘s Middleground for string quartet.
Music for chamber orchestra by Nico Muhly: Seeing is Believing.

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