Coming up on the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Pianist Michael Mizrahi has a new album out titled “Dreamspace,” and it’s a collection of music for solo piano intended to give space for dreaming. We’ll share a selection from the album, as well as pieces by Laurie San Martin, Jeffrey Mumford, and others.
Then, composer John Mackey says that he sees the saxophone as essentially a brass instrument: it’s made of metal, yet it uses wood to produce sound. We’ll hear a Soprano Saxophone Concerto by Mackey that draws on the physical materials of a saxophone as musical inspiration.
Also featuring music by Huang Ruo, Nathaniel Heyder, Kevin Puts, Nina C. Young, Sun Young Park, Outi Tarkianen, and others; and performances by cellist Rhonda Rider, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, violist Jordan Bak, Conspirare, Unheard-of//Ensemble, saxophone Stephen Page with pianist Liz Ames, shakuhachi soloist Kojiro Umezaki with Hub New Music, and others.