On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Composer Daniel Thomas Davis calls What if We’re Beautiful an experiment in musical gift-craft — a set of movements stitched together like handmade sonic objects. With its boisterous charm and delicate sincerity, the piece includes a hurdy-gurdy tune that’s as playfully heartfelt as the friendships it honors.
Lila Meretzky’s For Linda Catlin Smith is a quartet written in tribute to one of her key influences. Smith’s music often lives in the realm of ambiguity — subtle, spacious, and shaped by her love of painting and literature — and Meretzky’s piece seems to breathe in that same quiet way.
Also featured are works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Joan Tower, Quenton Blache, Sayo Kosugi, Nathan Hudson, Catherine Likhuta, Bright Sheng, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, and Michele Deiana. Performers include flutist Lina Andonovska, pianist Alex Raineri, Hub New Music, the Sphinx Virtuosi, harpist Jennifer Craig, saxophonist Timothy McAllister, pianist Liz Ames, violist Jordan Bak, Unheard-of//Ensemble, trombonist William Lang, and the Perpetuo Saxophone Quartet.
