Modern Notebook for November 14, 2021

Photo: Composer Erik Griswold (Photo credit: Greg Harm)

On the next Modern Notebook, Tyler Kline will take you to a few different parts of the world, with Freya Waley-Cohen’s solo harp piece “Skye,” inspired by time she spent as a child on the Isle of Skye off the coast of Scotland.


And solo piano music by Erik Griswold, from his “Four Places in Queensland,” titled Cunningham’s Gap.


Plus: music by Gabriel Kahane, Anna Clyne, Alex Groves, Emma O’Halloran, Jeffrey Mumford, and others; and performances by cellist Caitlin Sullivan, harpist Elizabeth Remy Johnson, pianist Stephen Emmerson, flutist Meerenai Shim with pianist Jacob Abela, and more.



That and more on the next Modern Notebook, Sunday night from 8 to 10 on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9.


Hour 1

  • my grave shall be the fathomless air by Gabriel Kahane.
  • Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds.
  • Cunninghams Gap from Erik Griswold’s Four Places in Queensland.
  • Alex Groves’ Curved Form (No. 11).
  • Penciled Wings by Emma O’Halloran.

Hour 2

  • two Elliott Carter tributes by Jeffrey Mumford.
  • Freya Waley-Cohen’s Skye.
  • Jouhet by Ilari Kaila.
  • Kaija Saariaho’s Clarinet Concerto D’OM LE VRAIS SENS.
  • Traveling North by Danielle Eva Schwob.

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