Hour 1
- Images by Nina Simone.
- Eleanor Alberga’s String Quartet No.1.
- Perfectly Voiceless by Devonté Hynes.
- Ballad of Birmingham from Shawn Okpebholo’s Two Black Churches.
- Joscelyn Hagen’s Variations on a Theme by Brahms.
Modern Notebook for February 21, 2021
Photo: Composer/producer Devonté Hynes (Photo Credit: Katie McCurdy/GQ)
On this week’s Modern Notebook: Tyler Kline shares music from baritone Will Liverman’s newest album of art songs by black composers with a work by Shawn Okpebholo. Also, a piece for mallet percussion quartet by Devonté Hynes titled Perfectly Voiceless, which begins with a wall of old school minimalist textures and eventually gives way to reveal a catchy pop melody.
Plus: works by Nina Simone, Eleanor Alberga, Joscelyn Hagen, Viet Cuong, and others; and performances by cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Third Coast Percussion, pianist Ann DuHamel, violinist Ilmar Gavilan with cellist Paul Wiancko and pianist Awadagin Pratt, PRISM Quartet, and more.
That’s on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 EST on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org and on the WUSF Public Media App.
Hour 2
- Panorama by Jessie Montgomery & Eleanore Oppenheim.
- II. Warm from ZONES by Judith Lang Zaimont.
- Daniel Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto.
- Prized Possessions by Viet Cuong.
- Hilary Kleinig’s Great White Bird.
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