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Modern Notebook for September 5, 2021

Photo: Composer Emily Koh (Photo credit: Simon Goodacre)

On the next Modern Notebook: tune in for music by Olivia Kieffer performed by saxophonist Nicki Roman. Also, a work for violin and bass clarinet duo by Aaron Jay Myers titled “ Own Your Own Shadow.”


And a work by Emily Koh from her newest album titled wordplays, which is made up of microtonal pieces for saxophone.



Also featuring pieces by David T. Little, Sara Corry, Tonia Ko, Juan de Dios Magdaleno, Eleanor Alberga, and others; and performances by New Thread Quartet, Box Not Found, pianist Kate Halsall, Unheard-of//Ensemble, pianist Brianna Matzke, and more.


Join Tyler Kline for the next Modern Notebook: Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org.


Hour 1

  • The Crocus Palimpist by David T. Little.
  • Olivia Kieffer’s Floating Bones.
  • From Desolation Row by Sara Corry.
  • Aaron Jay Myers’ Own Your Own Shadow.
  • Hum Phenomenon by Tonia Ko.

Hour 2

  • Lyra by Molly Heron.
  • Emily Koh’s cryptonym.
  • Strange Attractors by Juan de Dios Magdaleno.
  • Eleanor Alberga’s String Quartet No. 1.
  • and in the end, fragments, the rest is noise by Rose Dodd.

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