Modern Notebook for September 22, 2019
Photo: Composer Julia Wolfe (Photo credit: Peter Serling)
What’s old is new, again, on this week’s Modern Notebook, with an hour of folk-derived contemporary music:
- The Danish String Quartet updates some traditional Danish folk tunes.
- Luciano Berio’s globe-trotting masterwork for voice and orchestra, Folk Songs.
- Pianist Nicholas Phillips performs a work by Reena Esmail based on the Hindustani Raag Basant.
- Music by Julia Wolfe that speculates where the legendary John Henry came from.
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