On the next Living Classical with Tyler Kline : Breath is something we rarely notice – until we slow down enough to hear it. In Respiratory Cycle , composer Rob Funkhouser builds large-scale music around that simple motion, shaping sound as something that expands, releases, and returns, opening wide sonic spaces that reveal themselves gradually over time. This hour includes a moment from that cycle, Iris Field , inviting close, patient listening. Then: In portrait RE , compos

On the next Living Classical with Tyler Kline : There’s a moment when a child learns a new word,  and suddenly the world opens outward, full of possibility. Poems by Diane Thiel linger in that feeling of discovery, watching language take shape for the very first time. Composer Dale Trumbore turns those moments into music, tracing how wonder, imagination, and meaning grow word by word. In poetry, a volta  is the moment everything turns – when the ground shifts and a new perspe

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline:  Composer Eleanor Alberga was inspired by a small village in Denmark – a place shaped by a single long road, where movement and memory seem to blur together.In Langvad , that idea becomes music: a piece that unfolds like a procession in real time, open to whatever story you bring with you as you listen. Then: Imagine an ocean that isn’t of this world – vast, unfamiliar, and quietly alive. In his Trombone Concerto, Vast Oc

On the next Living Classical with Tyler Kline:  Some languages are inherited, not taught – carried through family stories and the way people speak when they’re together. In Canto Caló , composer Nicolás Lell Benavides honors his New Mexican grandparents by exploring Caló, a Spanish–English dialect shaped in the American Southwest. This hour features two songs from Canto Caló , tracing language, memory, and family history through sound. Then: A private history can linger long

On this week's Living Classical with Tyler Kline ... When composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate first heard Pura Fé and her group Ulali thirty years ago, their sound changed his life. Now, Tate has created the first classical transcription of Fé’s Rattle Songs  — a work that bridges Indigenous roots and orchestral color. This hour features a collection of those transcriptions, returning to music that shaped Tate’s artistic path and continues to resonate decades later. Then: A

At the year’s darkest moment, the light begins to return — a quiet reminder of renewal at the heart of winter. On this special wintertime edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline , composers respond to that turning point between stillness and motion, shadow and light. Hour 1 gathers music that reflects the ritual and reflection of the season, with works by Thomas Beck, Reena Esmail, Leah Mullen, Melissa Hui, Daniel Gilliam, Joanna Marsh, and Kitty Xiao — composers who inv

As the longest nights of the year approach, the sky becomes both mirror and mystery – a place where sound, space, and silence converge. On this special wintertime edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline , composers turn their attention to the night: to stars, distance, darkness, and the shifting light that moves among them. Hour 1 features works by Elena Langer, Golfam Khayam, Chris Opperman, Max Vinetz, Helen Grime, Juhi Bansal, Caterina Schembri, and Natalie Moller – m

From the first snowfall to the sudden burst of a winter storm, each kind of weather has its own rhythm — reshaping wind, and the stillness that follows a storm.  Hour 1 features works by Anuj Bhutani, Jonathan Hannau, Nicky Sohn, Outi Tarkiainen, Asuka Kakitani, Theresa Martin, and Gifrants with music that moves through drifting snow, melting ice, and the quiet tension between fire and frost. In Hour 2, the landscape shifts again as composers trace the transformations of air