Living Classical with Tyler Kline for December 28, 2025 - January 3, 2026

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 ticking clock opens the Infernal Dance from Christopher Stark’s Fire Ecologies – music born of wildfires, urgency, and the fragile balance of the natural world. It’s a pulsing reflection that fuses rhythm and noise, movement and memory, tracing the sounds of an environment under pressure.

Listen for music by Juri Seo, Missy Mazzoli, Dobrinka Tabakova, Pura Fé, Baljinder Sekhon, Del’Shawn Taylor, Clarice Jensen, Marc Mellits, Kotoka Suzuki, Christopher Stark, Annie Blythe, Brendon Randall-Myers, and Shelley Washington.

And performances by flutist Laura Lentz, cellist Svetlana Garitselova, pianist Jacob Ertl; violinist and hurdy-gurdy player Roman Mints; cellist Clarice Jensen; clarinetist Cecilia Kang; pianist Cristina Valdes; and ensembles Latitude 49, Dover Quartet, Duo Montagnard, KC VITAs, Unheard-of//Ensemble, and ~Nois.

Join Tyler Kline for this edition of Living Classical – exploring the full spectrum of classical music being made today.

Hour 1

• Fugue by Juri Seo [New Amsterdam–193-D]

• Missy Mazzoli’s Magic with Everyday Objects [Self-Published]

• Spinning a Yarn by Dobrinka Tabakova [ECM–4878558]

• Pura Fé’s Rattle Songs Nos. 1-3 [Curtis Studio–6]

• Balancing Act by Baljinder Sekhon [Self-Published]

• Del’Shawn Taylor’s Because I Could Not Stop for Death [Neuma Records–220]

• in holiday clothing, out of great darkness Part 1 by Clarice Jensen [FatCat Records–130701]

Hour 2

• Andromeda by Marc Mellits [Troy–2005]

• Kotoka Suzuki’s Shimmer, Tree [Starkland–236]

• Infernal Dance from Christopher Stark’s Fire Ecologies [New Focus Recordings–448]

• Aurora from Only in the Dark by Annie Blythe and Brendon Randall-Myers [cmntx records–40]

• Shelley Washington’s Eternal Present [Bright Shiny Things–197]