On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: “Assemble” is the name of this piece by Emily Cooley for multi-tracked cellos… but it also describes the piece quite literally, because, as the composer says, “the title describes what I felt like I was doing while composing: assembling a sort of puzzle.”
Then a work by Paola Prestini inspired, in part, by frozen moments in time, and the feeling of being in love. It’s titled “Code,” a work for piano and orchestra inspired by the relationship between TS and Emily Hale, music that Prestini dedicates to an invented love with an 8 letter code name.
Featuring works by Quinn Mason, Ben Verdery, Clarice Assad, Carlos Simon, Juhi Bansal, Jen Shyu, David Clay Mettens, Lei Liang, and others; and performances by violist Jordan Bak, Ulysses Quartet, cellist Ashley Bathgate, Unheard-of//Ensemble, pianist Amaryn Olmeda with Sphinx Virtuosi, soprano Laura Strickling with pianist Daniel Schlosberg, pianist Awadagin Pratt with A Far Cry, Arditti Quartet, and others.
Tune in Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Listen online at wsmr.org.
Hour 1 In Memory by Quinn Mason. Ben Verdery’s A Giant Beside You. Rain Tree Sketch by Toru Takemitsu. Emily Cooley’s Assemble. Symmetries by Clarice Assad. Michael Lanci’s Coalescence Cascade. Between Worlds by Carlos Simon. | 
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Hour 2 Not Quite Stars by Juhi Bansal. Jen Shyu’s Jeom Jaeng Yi (Fortune Teller). Code by Paola Prestini. David Clay Mettens’ stain, bloom, moon, rain. Serashi Fragments by Lei Liang. | 
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