On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Memories of friendship linger beneath each short movement in Hugi Gudmundsson’s Coniunctio — moments on park benches, in bars, on quiet walks. Composed for cello, the piece unfolds in brief, focused chapters that reflect intimacy through gesture, space, and shared experience.
Then: Luciano Berio once described a utopian dream: to build a bridge between folk traditions and modern music-making. In Folk Songs, that vision takes shape through melodies from eight cultures — reimagined not as museum pieces, but as living, breathing connections to everyday life.
Also featured are works by Kevin Day, Dai Fujikura, Lembit Beecher, Shuying Li, Marc Mellits, Ryan Brown, Camille Pépin, and Angélica Negrón. Performers include pianist Artina McCain, guitarist Soichi Muraji, cellist Sigurgeir Agnarsson, saxophonist Timothy McAllister, pianist Liz Ames, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, flutist Lina Andonovska, pianist Alex Raineri, clarinetist Jeff Anderle, vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, the Ficino Ensemble, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, and the ensemble Ember.
Tune in Sunday night at 8 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Streaming at wsmr.org.
Hour 1 The Sun Will Shine Again by Kevin Day Dai Fujikura’s Chance Monsoon Coniunctio by Hugi Gudmundsson Lembit Beecher’s Baltic Crossings Overture to "The Siege" by Shuying Li Marc Mellits’s Discrete Structures | 
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Hour 2 Lake Heritage: deep roots by Zachary Good Zakir Hussain’s Murmurs in Time I would be where I am not by Garrett Sholdice Gabriela Lena Frank’s Four Folk Songs | 
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