Modern Notebook for May 24 2020
Photo: Cobalt Duo: Kate Halsall & Fumiko Miyachi [Photo courtesy Birmingham Record Company]
On this week’s Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline will share some new releases from the past few months, including saxophone music by Emily Koh performed by the PRISM Quartet; a movement from Kati Agócs’ Immutable Dreams called Microconcerto; and a four-hand piano piece by Fumiko Miyachi inspired by the six flavors of quarks, titled Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, Charm.
Plus: performances by violinist Patrick Yim, the Serafin String Quartet, Heare Ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-stars, flutist Tammy Evans Yonce, and much more.
That’s on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.
Hour 1
- Memory by Chen Yi
- Jennifer Higdon’s Sky Quartet.
- Third Sound performs music by Kati Agócs.
- Tendenza by Magnus Lindberg.
- Music by Carter Pann performed by the Heare Ensemble.
Hour 2
- Bang on a Can All-Stars perform the music of Richard Reed Parry.
- heteronym by Emily Koh, music inspired by Singlish and other languages and dialects spoken in Singapore.
- Firewalk for solo glissando flute by Jay Batzner.
- Cobalt Duo performs music by Fumiko Miyachi.
- Timo Andres’ Fast Flows the River.