On this week’s Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Dai Wei’s piece “Honeycomb” is music born out of her own observations of a beehive outside her bedroom window. Stuck inside during the COVID-19 lockdowns, she would watch bees come and go, and later learned how bees passed nectar to one another to form a honeycomb–and this natural process went on to inspire the construction of this piece.
Then: hear music by Akshaya Avril Tucker for trumpet and saxophone, and a piece by Sean William Calhoun called “Plasmonic Mirror.” And a guitar quartet by João Luiz titled “Three Brazilian Pieces,” which serves as a musical portrait of three forms of expression from his native country.
Featuring works by Gala Flagello, Carme Rodriguez, Toru Takemitsu, Daijana Wallace, Nicole Chamberlain, Matana Roberts, Brendon Randall-Myers, and others; and performances by Talla Rouge, pianist Isabel Dobarro, cellist Kivie Cahn-Lipman, UNC Greensboro Casella Sinfonietta, The Merian Ensemble, Unheard-of//Ensemble, trumpeter Kenken Gorder with saxophonist Marina Sakellakis, New York Guitar Quartet, flutist Laura Lentz, and more.
Tune in Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Stream online at wsmr.org.
Hour 1 Burn as Brightly by Gala Flagello. Carme Rodriguez’s Alalá das Paisaxes Verticais. Shades by Daijana Wallace. Dai Wei’s Honeycomb. Folios by Toru Takemitsu. Nicole Chamberlain’s Atalanta. Frontlash by Nickitas Demos. | 
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Hour 2 borderlands… by Matana Roberts. Akshaya Avril Tucker’s frog friends. Three Brazilian Pieces by Joao Luiz. Sean William Calhoun’s Plasmonic Mirror. Cascade by Brendon Randall-Myers. | 
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