On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Some events seem to happen by chance — but still leave a lasting impact, from moment to moment, measure to measure. That idea is at the heart of Marc Mellits’ “Discrete Structures,” a set of miniature movements that connect and complete each other in surprising ways, drawn from shared musical material and personal moments of serendipity.
Then: The trombone is often cast as the Big Bad Wolf or the Clown. But in Jonathan Dove’s “Stargazer,” it becomes something else entirely — a stargazer, searching the night sky while the orchestra shimmers around it, with subtle threads of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star woven throughout.
Also featuring performances by pianist James McVinnie with music by Marcos Balter, the quartet Owls with music by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, saxophonist Kyle Jones with music by Tyson Gholston Davis, English hornist Lindsay Flowers, oboist Andrew Parker, and pianist Satoko Hayami with music by Erin Goad, pianist Isaac Lam and Die Konzertisten with music by Kai-Young Chan, guitarist Peter Argondizza and New York City Guitar Orchestra with music by Richard Charlton, violinist Tegan Faran with music by Xenia St. Charles Iris Llyllyth, soprano Ruston Ropac and Blackbox Ensemble with music by Juhi Bansal, and Garden Unit performing music by Hannah Barnes.
